Monthly Archives: February 2011

Microsoft Community Contributor Award | 2011

On Friday afternoon I was checking my email when I came across an email from support@microsoftcommunitycontributor.com saying that I was being awarded for my contributions to the Microsoft community. Dear Boe, Congratulations! We’re pleased to inform you that your contributions … Continue reading

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Creating a Report of Log File Data using Regular Expressions, Arrays and Hash Table

As I was checking my email early in the morning, I saw an email from co-worker asking me to write a script to parse through some logs that were generated from another script that listed the date the script is … Continue reading

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Querying UDP Ports with PowerShell

It was brought to my attention earlier in the week that my Test-Port script had a fairly big bug involving checking the UDP port to determine whether it was open or not. Initially, the function would always come back with … Continue reading

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More Web Services with PowerShell: Geo IP Location

Now that I have been bitten by the New-WebServiceProxy bug and built the weather function in a previous blog, I decided to work on another function to grab an IP address and show the country of origin. So without re-hashing … Continue reading

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Guest Blog on Hey, Scripting Guy! on Querying for X509 Certificates

A month ago, I was asked by Ed Wilson if I wanted to write a guest blog on the Hey, Scripting Guy blog. Naturally, I said yes to this because this an opportunity to write for a great guy like … Continue reading

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