Author Archives: Boe Prox

Make Your PowerShell Errors Less Harsh By Changing Their Color

Posted on August 7, 2012 by Boe Prox

Ok, so errors are never actually pleasing regardless of what color they are. But maybe you’ve been working with PowerShell for a while and or are just dipping your toes in the water and for one reason or another, you … Continue reading →

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Finding The CachedMode Setting In Outlook 2010 Using PowerShell

Posted on August 3, 2012 by Boe Prox

I had a requirement come in find the current CachedMode setting on the Outlook 2010 clients for all of the users in the domain. Seems like a simple request that can be solved with the Exchange PowerShell cmdlets, right? Wrong. … Continue reading →

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Installing Updates Via The SCCM Client

Posted on July 24, 2012 by Boe Prox

Continuing from my last blog entry on checking for pending updates on the SCCM client, I will now show how you can use this information to determine if an installation is already occurring and performing an installation if nothing is … Continue reading →

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Find Pending Updates via the SCCM Client Agent With PowerShell

Posted on July 7, 2012 by Boe Prox

One of the nice things about SCCM is that you can use it along with WSUS to push out software updates for your operating system. an even better thing is that the API is accessible via PowerShell. There are several … Continue reading →

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Setting Up a Windows PowerShell Help Repository

Posted on June 29, 2012 by Boe Prox

With the help files not available by default in PowerShell V3, you must now use Update-Help to download the help files needed to properly view help for each cmdlet. The best thing about this is that you will always have … Continue reading →

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