Monthly Archives: August 2010

Convert bytes to highest available unit

Posted on August 29, 2010 by Boe Prox

Unfortunately, I had something else in mind to post this weekend, but life and some other things prevented me from doing so.  Maybe next weekend… Because I wanted to get at least something out this weekend, I am going to … Continue reading →

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Balloon Notifications with Powershell

Posted on August 22, 2010 by Boe Prox

You’ve probably seen those balloon pop-ups at your computer at some point in time.  Most likely it was saying something about having updates that need to be installed on your computer.  They pop-up and say something and you can either … Continue reading →

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Powershell, Regular Expressions And You!

Posted on August 14, 2010 by Boe Prox

“^(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)$” Pretty scary, isn’t it? While most of you will never have to build something this long and complex, it still is a nice idea to learn how to use Regular Expressions in your scripts when you need to look … Continue reading →

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Retrieve computer status with IP Address

Posted on August 7, 2010 by Boe Prox

Here is a simple script that I posted both in the Powershell forums and on the technet script repository.  Basically all it does is take either a provided computername or reads from a host list and proceeds to “ping” each … Continue reading →

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Password Generator

Posted on August 5, 2010 by Boe Prox

During my time as a help desk/service center rep, we had a tool which would generate a password via a form and button and then was able to print out the form to give to each customer to take with … Continue reading →

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