Monthly Archives: February 2013

Fix Spaces in Hyperlinks That Exist in a Word Document

Posted on February 22, 2013 by Boe Prox

While hanging out in the PowerShell forums, I came across a question that talked about going out to a Sharepoint site and finding all word documents and then scanning each document and fixing all of the hyperlinks that had spaces … Continue reading →

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TCP Communication with PowerShell Available in MEAP

Posted on February 22, 2013 by Boe Prox

One of my chapters in the upcoming PowerShell Deep Dives book just became available as part of the MEAP program at Manning. If you aren’t a part of the early access program, you should definitely check it out! Otherwise, you … Continue reading →

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Fun with PowerShell and Permutations

Posted on February 21, 2013 by Boe Prox

Somewhere a while back I was reading about working with trying to find all possible combinations of a given word, called Permutations. Since my main goal was to take a given word (or string) and cycle through all of the … Continue reading →

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Read File Without Updating LastAccess TimeStamp using PowerShell

Posted on February 18, 2013 by Boe Prox

In my last article I showed you how to write to a file covertly without updating the LastWrite and LastAccess time and even avoid being tripped by the FileSystemWatcher event.  This is a follow-up to that article that uses many … Continue reading →

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Write to an Existing File Without Updating LastWriteTime or LastAccessTimestamps Using PowerShell

Posted on February 14, 2013 by Boe Prox

This little trick was something I stumbled upon while attempting to help solve an issue with a file scan that was about to take place. We wanted to know the last time a file was accessed and build out a … Continue reading →

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