Author Archives: Boe Prox

Working With New CmdletBinding Arguments HelpURI,SupportsPaging and PositionalBinding In PowerShell V3

Posted on June 3, 2012 by Boe Prox

With PowerShell V3 out (still in Beta), there are some new things with the CmdletBinding that includes the following items: HelpURI SupportsPaging PositionalBinding Each of these has their own specific uses and I will dive into each one to show … Continue reading →

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PoshPAIG 2.0.1 Released

Posted on May 18, 2012 by Boe Prox

My latest release of PoshPAIG includes some new features such as: New UI Design to make it look cleaner More reporting options Keyboard shortcuts Check for stopped services set to Automatic Options window to change some basic settings I have … Continue reading →

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Using Background Runspaces Instead of PSJobs For Better Performance

Posted on May 13, 2012 by Boe Prox

In my previous article, I showed you a function to query remote servers for their network information using background runspaces to speed things up. To follow up on that article based on some questions and comments I received from that … Continue reading →

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Speedy Network Information Query Using PowerShell

Posted on May 10, 2012 by Boe Prox

Taking a page from my Advanced Event 2 script that I used in my Expert Commentary on Hey, Scripting Guy!, I wanted to put something together to query for basic networking information from both local and remote systems and accomplish … Continue reading →

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Updating An Existing Get-ProductKey Function

Posted on May 4, 2012 by Boe Prox

A couple of days ago I received my daily PowerTips email from PowerShell.com talking about how to get the Windows Product key via PowerShell from your local system. The code is simple and to the point to look for and … Continue reading →

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