The “Hey, Scripting Guys!” blog has been retired. There are many useful posts in this blog, so we keep the blog here for historical reference. However, some information might be very outdated and many of the links might not work anymore.
New PowerShell content is being posted to the PowerShell Community blog where members of the community can create posts by submitting content in the GitHub repository.
Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about using WMI to find out how services start.
(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! I was looking at the processes on my workstation, and I see lots of things running. I suspect many of these are actually services. But I am wondering how I can use Windows PowerShell to find services that start ...
Summary: Windows PowerShell MVP, Mike Robbins, shows us how to use Windows PowerShell to check the status of Windows services and improve the accuracy of results.
Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Welcome back guest blogger, Mike Robbins.
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Mike F Robbins is a senior systems engineer with 20 years of professional experience ...
Summary: Richard Siddaway talks about using Windows PowerShell to store data for capacity planning.
(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! I’ve just starting learning PowerShell and I understand how to use it as a scripting language and shell. I’ve been told to start performing capacity planning for my servers, and I am wondering how I ...
Summary: Richard Siddaway talks about using Windows PowerShell to collect data for capacity planning.
(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! I’ve just starting learning Windows PowerShell and I understand how to use it as a scripting language and shell. I’ve been told to start performing capacity planning for my servers and was ...
Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to start a service on a remote machine.(image) How can I start a service on a remote machine?(image) To start a service on a local machine:Get-Service -Name bits | Start-serviceBut if you try to use the same technique on a remote machine, it tries to start the service on your local...