Author Archives: Boe Prox

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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Building a TCP Server Using PowerShell

Posted on February 22, 2014 by Boe Prox

Something that I have been working on for the past week or so is building a TCP server that I can use to issue commands from remotely and have it carry out on the remote server. I’ve already written a … Continue reading →

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PoshWSUS Update to 2.2.1

Posted on February 10, 2014 by Boe Prox

After a little time away from this project, I had received some functions from a member of the community (Universal in CodePlex), who had taken the time to work out some of the functions which are more server side related … Continue reading →

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