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Summary : The Scripting Wife learns how to use Windows PowerShell to get specific lines from a text file. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, here. As the Windows PowerShell 2011 Scripting Games edge forward in the conscious minds of intrepid scripters...
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Summary : The Scripting Wife learns how to use Windows PowerShell and regular expressions to replace text in strings. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, here. I just finished a meeting with the Microsoft TechEd people about doing a series of five Live...
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Summary : On the road to the 2011 Scripting Games, the Scripting Wife learns about regular expressions and string matching. Weekend Scripter Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, here. The Scripting Wife and I decided to head to Hilton Head Island (no relation...
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Summary : The Scripting Wife learns how to use Windows PowerShell to determine the number of days until the NCAA championship game. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, here. It has been an extremely exciting week. I finished writing all of the Windows...
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Summary : The Scripting Wife learns how to create custom column headings for the Windows PowerShell Out-GridView cmdlet. Weekend Scripter Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, here. It is a typical weekend for me. I am up early, sipping a cup of English...
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Summary : Learn how to sort data before you send it to the Windows PowerShell Out-GridView cmdlet. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson here. The weekend has finally arrived, following on the heels of a rather hectic week. I decided to download and install...
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Summary : The Scripting Wife learns how to filter output by using the Windows PowerShell Out-Gridview cmdlet. I am happily anticipating this weekend in Seattle. I leave for Seattle tomorrow evening. I will be participating in a portion of the MVP summit...
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Summary : The Scripting Wife learns how to view and to sort data by using the Out-GridView Windows PowerShell cmdlet. I just finished with a fun conference call with a colleague in which we were talking about how to best work with the community. Originally...
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Summary : The Scripting Wife learns how to format Windows PowerShell output with the easy-to-use Format-Table cmdlet. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, here. I wonder how you might describe the perfect day? For me, it consists of receiving feedback...
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Summary : The Scripting Wife learns how to use the Format-Wide cmdlet in Windows PowerShell. I imagine winter has nearly departed Charlotte, North Carolina and that spring will arrive soon. Yesterday, besides being rather long, turned out to be gorgeous...
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Summary : The Scripting Wife learns from the Microsoft Scripting Guy about formatting Windows PowerShell output with Format-List . It is a Monday morning much like any one of hundreds of previous Mondays. The celestial orb has yet to make an appearance...
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Today’s Beginner Event 10 was really easy. It was troubleshooting. I have gotten pretty good at troubleshooting these last few weeks because I have a hard time making my scripts run correctly the first time. It seems that I write code, click Run to see...
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Today the Scripting Guys revealed Event 9, which is the next-to-last event of the 2010 Scripting Games. We still have tomorrow and next week to submit our scripts for Events 5-10 though! I was beginning to dread today because the events have been getting...
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I thought I was doing well in the 2010 Scripting Games, but as of yesterday, I have dropped down into the mid 40s on the leaderboard . Of course, I am not a real scripter, and I have only been doing this for a few weeks. So the results are not surprising...
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Event 7: It is hard to believe that the 2010 Scripting Games are already up to Event 7! Time flies when you’re sort of having fun. Take today’s script, for example. The hard part was finding out how to find the administrative tools; the rest was not very...