Showing archive results for August 2013

Summary: Honorary Scripting Guy, Sean Kearney, continues his series about using Windows Powershell to build scripts to automate DiskPart.  Hey, Scripting Guy! I saw yesterday that you can use Windows PowerShell to build a small script for DiskPart, but how can I make the information useful? —SH  Hello SH, Honorary Scripting Guy, Sea...

Summary: Learn how to easily automate commands by using DiskPart.exe.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to automatically run DiskPart.exe commands that I use to make bootable keys?  Store the commands you use in DiskPart.exe in a text file (runme.txt in this example), and run them automatically by adding the /s parameter: DISKPART.EXE /s ...

Summary: Honorary Scripting Guy, Sean Kearney, talks about using Windows Powershell to build scripts to automate DiskPart.  Hey, Scripting Guy! I know I can create a bootable USB key by using DiskPart, but is there any way to have it automated so the computer does the work for me? —SH  Hello SH, Honorary Scripting Guy, Sean Kearney,...

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to find PowerShell related events and levels.  How can I find events that are related to Windows PowerShell in the event and diagnostic logs, and see the level for those events?  Use the Get-WinEvent cmdlet and a wildcard character for LogName, select the logname and level ...

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about installing the free Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows PowerShell 3.0 in Windows 8. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. This morning is an awesome morning. Our friends from Hamburg, Germany have been hanging out all weekend, and it has been a blast. We have spen...