Author Archives: Boe Prox

I’m a Coach for the 2014 Winter Scripting Games

I was selected to help coach the Winter Scripting Games for 2014. What does this mean? Well, because the format for the Winter Games is a team format, I will be wandering around from team to team and looking at … Continue reading

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Exploring iTunes Using PowerShell: Part 1

I don’t spend a ton of time using iTunes on my laptop, but when I do it is usually to listen to some music or the iTunes radio and even that isn’t a common thing. But I happened to come … Continue reading

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Using $PSDefaultParameterValues in PowerShell

Recently I saw someone posted a reply to one of my comments on a blog article that he had never heard of $PSDefaultParameterValues before now.  With that, I will give you a walkthrough of this feature added in PowerShell V3 … Continue reading

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Give PowerShell a Voice Using The SpeechSynthesizer Class

Besides using PowerShell for the usual work related things, we can also have some fun with it by tapping into various .Net classes to do things such as letting PowerShell talk to us. There are quite a few examples of … Continue reading

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Checking Out The Where and ForEach Operators in PowerShell V4

#Requires –Version 4.0 With the release of PowerShell V4, we received the Desired State Configuration (DSC) module as the main piece as well as some other things, some known and some not known that well. One of those things is … Continue reading

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