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This cool scripting lesson not only explains how to read Microsoft Excel metadata but also includes a discussion of the wisdom of translating VBScript scripts to Windows PowerShell.

How does Scripting Guy Ed Wilson pack for a trip to the southern hemisphere? How does he figure out the metric system? Who is Harold the grouper? Script and travel along vicariously with Ed in these dispatches from Oz.

We have a new forum. Post questions. Answer questions. Help each other out. The Scripting Guys can't possibly answer every e-mail message and forum post, so we deputize you as Junior Scripting Guys. Go forth, script, and help others script.

The Scripting Guys discuss Socrates and revisit the topic of querying an XML file . This time, however, the XML file is structured so that rather than using child nodes, additional property values are configured as attributes.

Fill in each row with the name of a VBScript function. Then unscramble the letters in the blue squares to spell one more function name. Puzzling, yes?

Who said “Everyone talks about the need for new scripting tools, but no one ever does anything about it?” As it turns out, Michael Murgolo and Ed Wilson have both done something about it. Michael has released an updated version of his Elevation Power Toys (making it a breeze to run scripts as an administrator in Windows Vista), while Ed has put together the PowerShell Scriptomatic, a tool for writing WMI scripts using Windows PowerShell. Both of these utilities come highly-recommended.

At TechEd, Kevin Remde interviewed Jeffrey Snover, and Snover discussed the V2 Universal Code Execution model in detail. You can watch the interview on the PowerShell team blog.

Write your own WMI providers? Isn’t that, well, impossible? As it turns out, it’s not impossible. (That doesn’t mean it’s easy, but it’s definitely not impossible.) For more information, check out this article by Gabriel Ghizila (and edited by legendary Scripting Guy Dean Tsaltas).