Monthly Archives: March 2014

5 Day Hey, Scripting Guy! Series on Remote Endpoints

Posted on March 31, 2014 by Boe Prox

Today begins my 5 day guest spot on Hey, Scripting Guy! talking about Remote PowerShell Endpoints. I am also doing the Power Tips as well during this week, so be sure to check those out as well! As always, let … Continue reading →

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Guest Post on Hey, Scripting Guy! Talking About File Signatures

Posted on March 22, 2014 by Boe Prox

I have a two day guest spot on Hey, Scripting Guy! talking about finding and using File Signatures to identify file types. Be sure to check them out and let me know what you think! Links to both blog posts … Continue reading →

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Find Out Why ‘Acl’ (and Other Cmdlets) Without the ‘Get-‘ Still Work Using Trace-Command

Posted on March 20, 2014 by Boe Prox

The power of Trace-Command is amazing to help troubleshoot a command or to gain better insight into what goes on behind the scenes when a command or commands are running. What you may or may not know is that any … Continue reading →

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Update KB2928680 Available to Fix Invalid Properties error when using Get-ADUser/Computer

Posted on March 11, 2014 by Boe Prox

For those of you running Windows 8.1 or Windows 2012 R2, you may have seen issues where using Get-ADComputer and Get-ADUser with the –Property parameter and specifying * to grab all properties of the object. Get-ADUser proxb -Server DC1 -Property … Continue reading →

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WSUS Reporting: Digging Into Target Groups and Update Statuses Using PowerShell

Posted on March 4, 2014 by Boe Prox

I had an email recently asking how to report on the number of updates per Target Group. Basically when a report is run using the WSUS Management Console, you can create a tabular report that displays something similar to this: … Continue reading →

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