Author Archives: Boe Prox

Report the CrashOnAuditFail Setting on Your Computers

Posted on January 28, 2013 by Boe Prox

CrashOnAuditFail is a setting on each operating system that is used to essentially stop your system if it can no longer write to the Security log. the stop us typically a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) that bring the system … Continue reading →

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PowerShell Patch Utility PoshPAIG Updated to 2.1.5

Posted on January 25, 2013 by Boe Prox

I have just released version 2.1.5 of PoshPAIG, my patching utility, to the public. It is available for download at http://poshpaig.codeplex.com. I spent quite a bit of time ripping out the PSJobs infrastructure and replacing it with background PowerShell runspaces … Continue reading →

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Building an Xbox Live Widget using PowerShell

Posted on January 24, 2013 by Boe Prox

Something a little fun that I had the opportunity to work on was building a Xbox Live widget using PowerShell that does a nice job of capturing all of the relevant information that a Xbox live person would like to … Continue reading →

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Find and Report Members of a Local Group

Posted on January 22, 2013 by Boe Prox

One of the things that a Sys Admin might want to know about is who exactly is in a group, such as Administrators. Getting it from one system is pretty simple, but pulling this data from multiple remote systems can … Continue reading →

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Quick Hits: Speed Up Some of your Commands by Avoiding the Pipeline

Posted on January 13, 2013 by Boe Prox

Sometimes running a command using the pipeline can take a while depending on the amount of data that is being processed. For the easiest example, I will make use of Get-Random to demonstrate the differences in speed and how much … Continue reading →

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