The Scripting Guys' First Blog

One of the developer resources useful to IT folks that you might overlook in the vastness of microsoft.com is -- deep breath -- the Application Compatibility Testing and Mitigation Guide for Windows XP Service Pack 2 This download contains documentation...

The latest Scripting Guys' Webcast took place Friday, October 8th, and is now available from the TechNet Webcast archives in on-demand video form. It's called Scripting with Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2: SOS! and you can find it at: http://msevents...

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When I showed these scripts to Dean, he thought there had to be an easier way to recurse through a directory tree with WMI, and he found it. The only caveat is that you must run it on Windows XP or Windows Server 2003. This is because WMI Query Language...

BabyScript Now that we've glanced at recursion out of the corner of our eye (on Day 1) and lived, it's time to stare straight-on into the unspeakable horror of the Medusa Code. If you have sunglasses, please put them on now. If you try to speak its name...

BabyScript If you attended Day 3 of the Scripting Week webcasts, "Scripting Files and Folders Makes Me Happy" http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=30795, you may recall an odd and vaguely menacing script in the second section on WMI. It bristled...

Ok, ok, it has been a long time since I posted anything here, hasn’t it? Do I have an excuse for that? Shoot, not only do I have an excuse, I have three of them: I’m lazy. It’s baseball season. (As I noted awhile back, coaching...

Hey, guys. I apologize for being absent for so long from this space, but this time of year it’s hard for me to find the time to do things like blogs. Now, that might sound a bit odd; after all, as a Microsoft Scripting Guy, isn’t it my job...

One of the reasons I thought we should do a scripting blog is because there are a lot of things (like book reviews) that we can’t do on TechNet. Being somewhat naïve, I thought the other Scripting Guys (who actually read computer books) would...

As I’ve noted before, Microsoft really isn’t anything at all like its reputation. For example, we’re supposed to be the ruthless corporate bulldozer that simply crushes any human being that dares get in our way; in truth, though, we...

Yesterday was an interesting day. I went into the little editor they have for this blog site, and – like I always do – copied the day’s entry out of Word and pasted it into the editor. Everything looked hunky-dory, so I clicked the Submit...

I’m in a good mood today, which makes two days in a row that I haven’t just sat around grousing and complaining (a new personal record!). But that’s because baseball season has officially started: we drafted our team last Thursday, the...

Note . Eric Lippert has posted a followup to the entry I did a couple days ago regarding WSF files. If you’d like a little more insight into why WSF files work the way they do, check it out . And now, back to our regularly-scheduled program...

I know that there are a lot of people who are afraid that Microsoft is going to take over the world (an issue we sort of talked about awhile back). Listen, trust me on this: it’s not gonna happen. Now, do I say this because I have some inside information...

Posted by Greg Stemp . Ok, so yesterday I got a bit lackadaisical, and screwed up in my blog entry. Therefore, I vowed that today I wouldn’t say anything dumb whatsoever. And, of course, the only way for me to do that is to just not say anything...

Mea culpa . Ok, I screwed up. What follows is an annotated version of the blog entry I posted earlier today, annotations courtesy of Eric Lippert (the guy who actually wrote a good portion of VBScript). As Eric points out, I made a couple of glaring mistakes...

Posted by Greg Stemp . I don’t think I have ever consciously tried to pattern my life after anybody in particular, but, subconsciously, I seem to have a lot in common with General George Armstrong Custer. Custer was a bit of an eccentric, and he...

Yesterday’s entry, combined with today’s, reminds me of the old Batman TV show. If you happen to be, as they say, of a certain age , then you no doubt remember the old Batman show, which pretty much followed the exact same theme in each and...

Posted by Greg Stemp . I guess if you walk around calling yourself a Microsoft Scripting Guy then you shouldn’t be surprised when people ask you scripting questions all the time. What’s interesting, though, is how many people ask me other...

Posted by Greg Stemp . One of the more interesting aspects about working at Microsoft is the fact that many people assume that if you work do here then you must be evil. You might think that that’s a terrible thing, and, on the whole, it probably...

This doesn’t really have anything to do with scripting, but when I was driving to work this morning I happened to pass by a construction site. The site had a sign up stating that the area was currently undergoing an environmental impact analysis...