{"id":61,"date":"2006-11-02T10:47:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-02T14:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jdhitsolutions.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/02\/mr-roboto-is-coming\/"},"modified":"2009-08-05T13:06:06","modified_gmt":"2009-08-05T17:06:06","slug":"mr-roboto-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jdhitsolutions.com\/blog\/powershell\/61\/mr-roboto-is-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Roboto is coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I will be taking over the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmondmag.com\/columns\/columnist.asp?ColumnistsID=38\">Mr. Roboto column<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmondmag.com\/\">REDMOND Magazine<\/a>.  If you've seen the column, I don't know if I'll be wearing the shiny Borg suit that Don Jones used to wear. It chafes a little but nothing that a little oil won't cure.<\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div>If you haven't read the column, its goal is to show how to automate a particular Windows administrative task,. 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