TechNet Magazine: Hey, Scripting Guy!
Hey, Scripting Guy!: The Adrenaline Rush
The Microsoft Scripting Guys - July 2008
The Scripting Guys discuss adrenaline-filled scripting and show you how the new boot configuration data store in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 can be accessed using scripts.Hey, Scripting Guy!: Not-So-Hard Work Has Its Rewards, Too
The Microsoft Scripting Guys - June 2008
The Scripting Guys ponder hard work, true happiness, and outputting data to the command window in a readable tabular format.Hey, Scripting Guy!: Raising Eyebrows on Regular Expressions
The Microsoft Scripting Guys - May 2008
The scripting guys visit the Louvre, take up art criticism, and show you how to use regular expressions in a script to do a search and replace.Hey, Scripting Guy!: The Return of the Database Script
The Microsoft Scripting Guys - April 2008
The AllSigned execution policy provides the most secure Windows PowerShell environment. So how do you sign your Windows PowerShell scripts? Don Jones shows you how.Hey, Scripting Guy!: Our Favorite Shell Games
The Microsoft Scripting Guys - March 2008
The Scripting Guys demonstrate how you can change the last-modified date of a file with some script and the Shell object.Hey, Scripting Guy!: The Games Are Afoot! Oh, and Some XML, Too
The Microsoft Scripting Guys - February 2008
The Microsoft Scripting Guys go on and on about the 2008 Scripting Games, and they also show you how to create, append, and modify XML documents. By the way, have you heard about the 2008 Scripting Games?Hey, Scripting Guy!: There's No Mistaking Regular Expressions
The Microsoft Scripting Guys - January 2008
Looking for a way to avoid making mistakes? Validation is a good start. Learn how to perform character pattern matching in a script using regular expressions.Hey, Scripting Guy!: The Return of WinRM
The Microsoft Scripting Guys - December 2007
Did the butler do it? Was it in the pantry with the candlestick? None of these questions are answered here. But after four long weeks, the Scripting Guys are back with Part 2 of their two-part series on WinRM.Hey, Scripting Guy!: Desktop Management from beyond the Grave
The Microsoft Scripting Guys - November 2007
The Scripting Guys demonstrate how to use Windows Remote Management to retrieve the properties and instances of classes on a remote computer. Oh, and there's a cool puzzle too.Hey, Scripting Guy!: Let There Be Silverlight
The Microsoft Scripting Guys - October 2007
Silverlight makes it easy to create cool user interfaces and multimedia presentations. And it seems to work well in HTML Applications, or HTAs. The Scripting Guys show you how to give Silverlight a try.Hey, Scripting Guy!: Can This Relationship Be Saved?
The Microsoft Scripting Guys - September 2007
Relational databases are designed to handle one-to-many relationships. This can make writing scripts that query these databases a bit tricky. But don’t worry—the Scripting Guys are here to show you everything you need to know.Hey, Scripting Guy!: Who Are You?
The Microsoft Scripting Guys - August 2007
With Active Directory, users can have a variety of identities, such as givenName, displayName, userPrincipalName, or distinguishedName. As a system administrator, how do you get all this information about a user? With a script, of course.Hey, Scripting Guy!: In Scripts, as in Life, Looks Are Important
The Microsoft Scripting Guys - July 2007
For scripts that run in a graphical environment, looks are as important as function and performance. Explore techniques for using cascading style sheets to improve the look of your scripts.Hey, Scripting Guy!: Scripting Around the Squiggly Red Line
The Microsoft Scripting Guys - June 2007
Looking for an easier way to add terms to the Microsoft Word dictionary without doing it by hand, one word at a time? Who isn't? This month, the Scripting Guys show you how to create custom dictionaries in Microsoft Word, and how to programmatically configure Word to use those dictionaries.Hey, Scripting Guy!: Flowers Blooming. Dialogs Popping. Spring Is Here.
The Microsoft Scripting Guys - May 2007
Ever wonder how you could send values to and from a dialog box in an HTML Application (HTA)? Here’s an explanation of how to create a dialog box and then pass information back and forth between the dialog box and the main HTA.Hey, Scripting Guy!: Naively Taking on Local Users and Groups
The Microsoft Scripting Guys - April 2007
It seems everybody has been asking about it. And now the Scripting Guys (finally) show you how to use scripts to manage local users and groups.Hey, Scripting Guy!: Answering Your OU Questions…for Just 5 Cents
The Microsoft Scripting Guys - March 2007
Ever wish you could display a dialog box that lets select an OU from Active Directory and connect to it using a script? The Scripting Guys have just the script you're looking for.Hey, Scripting Guy!: Chasing Cars… and XML
The Microsoft Scripting Guys - February 2007Hey, Scripting Guy!: Be Careful What You Say
The Microsoft Scripting Guys - January 2007Hey, Scripting Guy!: Where Are the Cup Holders?
The Microsoft Scripting Guys - December 2006
You've already got VBScript and Windows Script Host. Why should you bother with a new tool for scripting? We'll show you how Windows PowerShell is more powerful, allowing you to do things you haven’t been able to do in the past.Hey, Scripting Guy!: Sure, We're Adaptable
The Microsoft Scripting Guys - November 2006
You can do a lot of networking through scripts. Two Windows Management Instrumentation classes, Win32_NetworkAdapter and Win32_NetworkAdapaterConfiguration, allow you to work with network adapters on your computers.Hey, Scripting Guy!: Setting Up Outlook E-Mail Signatures
The Microsoft Scripting Guys - October 2006Hey, Scripting Guy!: Late-Night Scripting
The Microsoft Scripting Guys - September 2006Hey, Scripting Guy!: How Can I Delete a Key and its Subkeys from the Registry?
The Microsoft Scripting Guys - August 2006Hey, Scripting Guy!: It’s About Time (Oh, and About Dates, Too)
The Microsoft Scripting Guys - July 2006
You know, the Scripting Guys hardly ever wax philosophical. (We hardly ever wax our cars or our floors, either, but that’s a different story. ) When it comes to the nature of time, however, well, in that case we just can’t help ourselves.Hey, Scripting Guy!: We All Scream for Security Descriptors
The Microsoft Scripting Guys - May • June 2006
Sometimes things are just more complicated than they should be. Take a simple little task like deciding which ice cream to order. Back when the Scripting Guys were growing up this was easy; for the most part, you had your choice between chocolate and vanilla.Hey, Scripting Guy!: Determining a User’s Group Memberships
The Microsoft Scripting Guys - March • April 2006
Groucho Marx once said, "I don’t want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member." (The Scripting Guys hold a similar philosophy...or we would if we could ever find a group that would accept us as members.)Hey, Scripting Guy!: Yes, Another One...
The Microsoft Scripting Guys - January • February 2006
Greetings, everyone. In one of their classic Halloween episodes, the Simpsons became rich and famous. Their faces were everywhere: on billboards, on T-shirts, you name it. Not too surprisingly the people of Springfield quickly tired of seeing the Simpsons everywhere they looked.