Author Archives: Boe Prox

PowerShell and WPF: Checkboxes

Posted on August 1, 2014 by Boe Prox

Continuing on with my series on PowerShell and WPF, I am going to talk about using checkboxes in a form. Checkboxes are a great way to allow a user to select a specific item or items prior to moving on … Continue reading →

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Building a Clipboard History Viewer Using PowerShell

Posted on July 24, 2014 by Boe Prox

I saw a question a while back in the Technet PowerShell Forum asking how one might start to build a clipboard viewer using PowerShell that met a few requirements: Have an open window aside from the PowerShell console Automatically list … Continue reading →

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Guest Spot on Hey, Scripting Guy! Talking ForEach

Posted on July 8, 2014 by Boe Prox

Check out my latest guest spot on Hey, Scripting Guy! talking about using ForEach, ForEach-Object and … ForEach (the alias of ForEach-Object). Give it a read and let me know what you think! http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2014/07/08/getting-to-know-foreach-and-foreach-object.aspx

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Quick Hits: Did I Really Lose My Output With Receive-Job By Not Using–Keep?

Posted on June 27, 2014 by Boe Prox

We have all probable been there at some point. We use Start-Job to run a command in the background like this: Start-Job -ScriptBlock { Get-Process | Where { $_.WS -gt 100MB } } -Name HighMemProcess Take note of the HasMoreData … Continue reading →

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Changing Ownership of File or Folder Using PowerShell

Posted on June 24, 2014 by Boe Prox

While working on a project recently, I needed to find an easy way to take ownership of a profile folder and its subfolders to allow our support staff to either delete the profile or be able to traverse the folder … Continue reading →

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