Author Archives: Boe Prox

Quick Hits: List All Available WMI Namespaces Using PowerShell

Posted on May 9, 2014 by Boe Prox

Sometimes it is worth knowing what the available namespaces are in WMI, especially if you are looking for a specific class and are not sure where it might be (sometimes it just isn’t under Root\Cimv2). Another reason is just for … Continue reading →

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WSUS Server HTML Report

Posted on May 4, 2014 by Boe Prox

While presenting at the Philly PowerShell User Group on Thursday, one of the things that I showed in my examples was an HTML report that I wrote for WSUS. This report basically does a report on various components of a … Continue reading →

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Speaking at Philadelphia PowerShell User Group in May

Posted on April 22, 2014 by Boe Prox

I’ll be speaking at the Philadelphia PowerShell User Group on May 1st at 5pm CST and I’ll be talking about ‘Managing WSUS with PowerShell’. I won’t actually be there and will instead be presenting via Lync. Regardless, it will be … Continue reading →

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Testing TCP Ports with a Possible Header Response

Posted on April 18, 2014 by Boe Prox

I wrote a function a while back as a quick means to not only check for an open port, but also to see if a header is sent back on the initial connection. The reasoning behind this was to help … Continue reading →

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Setting Up a NuGet Feed For Use with OneGet (now PackageManagement)

Posted on April 11, 2014 by Boe Prox

I blogged recently about using OneGet (now called PackageManagement) to install packages from an available NuGet feed. By default OneGet PackageManagement’s Chocolatey provider accesses the Chocolatey community feed, but you can actually build out your own local repo to host packages … Continue reading →

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