Author Archives: Boe Prox

Turn Your PowerShell Console Title Bar Into A RSS/Weather Ticker

Posted on January 28, 2012 by Boe Prox

Something fun that I have been working on was a way to utilize the PowerShell console title bar for something other than just displaying a static message and then it hit me that the title bar would make an excellent … Continue reading →

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A Week of Hey, Scripting Guy! with WSUS and PowerShell

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Boe Prox

I’ve taken over the Hey, Scripting Guy! blog for the week to talk about using PowerShell to manage a WSUS server starting today! Thanks, Ed for giving me the entire week to talk about this topic. I will update this … Continue reading →

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Starting,Stopping and Restarting Remote Services with PowerShell

Posted on January 15, 2012 by Boe Prox

A common task that a System Administrator might face in their day is restarting a service on a remote system. While this can be accomplish using the Services.MSC or another various GUI, you have to load the GUI, then connect … Continue reading →

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Enable .Net 4.0 access from PowerShell V2

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Boe Prox

While working on an update to one of my projects, PoshPAIG, I decided that I wanted to take a look at using a DataGrid as a possible replacement to the use of a ListView. The problem I ran into right … Continue reading →

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Compare-Object Weirdness? Or Business as Usual?

Posted on January 2, 2012 by Boe Prox

I came across this forum question on the Hey, Scripting Guy! forum the other day and couldn’t help but take up the challenge of finding out and providing (hopefully) a good explanation as to why the following code snippet did … Continue reading →

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