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Perspectives
Create Date-and-Time Stamps That You
Can Use in File and Folder Names
Forward slashes and colons can ruin a good date.
Date-and-time stamps that include these reserved characters can't be
used in file and folder names, yet administrators sometimes need to
incorporate a date and/or time in file and folder names. VBScript has
date-manipulation tools, but they typically generate dates and times
that not only include reserved characters but also are formatted
according to locale.
Alex K. Angelopoulos has found that the simplest solution is to
represent dates and times in the ISO 8601 standard’s basic format for
displaying calendar dates. In "Creating Date and Time Stamps," Alex
explains why the ISO 8601 standard is a good choice for date-and-time
stamps. He also describes how to use VBScript code to easily generate
ISO 8601 stamps. You can even use this code to generate ISO 8601 stamps
on pre-Windows XP systems that don’t provide some convenient stamping
tools. To read this article and download the code, go to windowsitpro.com/windowsscripting/article/articleid/92941/creating-date-and-time-stamps.html.
I opened up this article for public viewing through July 3.
--Karen Bemowski, kbemowski@windowsitpro.com
Scripting Toolkit
PowerShell Scriptomatic Writes WMI
Scripts for You
Microsoft has released PowerShell Scriptomatic, a tool
for writing Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) scripts in Windows
PowerShell. To use PowerShell Scriptomatic, all you need to do is
select
a WMI namespace and a dynamic class (i.e., a class that returns data)
from drop-down lists. The utility then writes a script that returns all
the information for that class. If you want to run the script right
away, you just click the Run button. Alternatively, you can save the
script. By default, PowerShell Scriptomatic creates scripts that run on
the local computer, but you can create scripts that run on remote
machines by either typing in one or more computer names or loading
computer names from a text file.
PowerShell Scriptomatic has other helpful features you can read about
in
the PowerShell Scriptomatic Web page at www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/tools/psomatic.mspx.
This page also includes a link to download the tool.
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