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Summary: Learn how to use Chef and DSC in Windows PowerShell to deploy System Center in this guest blog post by Jason Morgan.Ed Wilson, here. Today I have a guest blog post by Jason Morgan in which he will talk about using Desired State Configuration (DSC) and Chef to deploy System Center. Welcome back, Jason…Hello again. Today I’m wri...

Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to import a file that uses a colon as a delimiter.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to import a file that is delimited with a colon instead of a comma?  Use the Import-CSV cmdlet and specify the colon as the delimiter, for example: import-csv -Path C:\fso\applog.csv -Delimiter '...

Summary: The Honorary Scripting Guys for 2015 are announced in this blog post. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. I have been pretty busy—I missed work because of my ear surgery and the holidays, so I have enlisted the help of the Scripting Wife, Teresa Wilson, to write this post to announce the 2015 Honorary Scripting Guys. I gave her t...

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to find running services.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to quickly produce a sortable list of running services on my computer?  Use the Get-Service cmdlet to return the services, and the Out-GridView to produce a sortable list: gsv | ogv Note   gsv is an alias for Get-Service, and ogv is an alias for Out-GridVie...

Summary: See which Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog posts were the top five in 2015.Today I feature Honorary Scripting Guy and Windows PowerShell MVP, Teresa Wilson, aka The Scripting Wife. Take it away Teresa…Hello everyone, with over 700 new posts a year on the Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog, the number one thing I hear at conferences and user group mee...