Author Archives: Boe Prox

PowerShell and Events: Permanent WMI Event Subscriptions

Posted on August 14, 2013 by Boe Prox

Wrapping up my series on PowerShell and Events, I will be talking about Permanent WMI Event Subscriptions and creating these using PowerShell. Mentioned in my previous article on temporary events, WMI events are a very powerful and useful way to … Continue reading →

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Get All Members of a Local Group Using PowerShell

Posted on August 11, 2013 by Boe Prox

I wrote a function a while back that is used to query a local group on a remote or local system (or systems) and based on the –Depth parameter, will perform a recursive query for all members of that group … Continue reading →

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Quick Hits: Set the Default Property Display in PowerShell on Custom Objects

Posted on August 3, 2013 by Boe Prox

Whenever we write a function or a  script and choose what properties to display, we are usually greeted with the usual display of every single property that we used instead of what the the PowerShell cmdlets and other module cmdlets … Continue reading →

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PowerShell and Events: WMI Temporary Event Subscriptions

Posted on August 2, 2013 by Boe Prox

It’s been a while since my last post in my series on PowerShell and Events (February to be exact), but now that I have some projects caught up, it is time to make a return to wrap up this series … Continue reading →

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Quick Hits: Determine Tombstone Lifetime in Active Directory

Posted on July 28, 2013 by Boe Prox

Recently, I wanted to know what the tombstone lifetime was in my environment and decided to find this using PowerShell. Given, I could have done something with dsquery or dug in using the ADSI type accelerator to connect to my … Continue reading →

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