Author Archives: Boe Prox

PowerShell V3 is RTM!

Posted on September 4, 2012 by Boe Prox

You heard it! PowerShell V3 is now available to download as RTM! It is already installed on the RTM versions on Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012. For the down level systems (Windows 2008, 200R2 and Windows 7), you can … Continue reading →

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Converting Bytes To The Largest Type Using P/Invoke

Posted on August 23, 2012 by Boe Prox

A good while back I wrote an article (one of my first) that showed a way to convert the raw bytes of a file or anything for that matter into the upper most value. For instance, if you had 100240 … Continue reading →

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PowerShell Deep Dive Book

Posted on August 22, 2012 by Boe Prox

Now that we have been given the go ahead to announce it, I can now say that I am going to be contributing to a “PowerShell Deep Dive” book with a number of PowerShell superstars! I am very excited about … Continue reading →

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Reversing a String Using PowerShell

Posted on August 12, 2012 by Boe Prox

So how many times do you sit at your desk thinking “How can I easily reverse this string output?”. Probably not at all. But in the case where I needed to do this while working on a future article, I … Continue reading →

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Locating Mount Points Using PowerShell

Posted on August 10, 2012 by Boe Prox

Sometimes when you are building a file server (or some other server), you come to realize that you have more drive or partitions than drive letters that are available. In this situation, what do you do? If you answered ‘create … Continue reading →

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