Author Archives: Boe Prox

PoshWSUS 2.0 released

Posted on December 30, 2011 by Boe Prox

Actually, it is now 2.0.1 as I have fixed a couple of bugs in the module. But yes, I have finally released version 2.0 of PoshWSUS on Codeplex. Please go out there to check out all of the new features … Continue reading →

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Use PowerCLI to Report Storage Paths in your ESXi Environment

Posted on December 29, 2011 by Boe Prox

Just something I wanted to share with the community… One of our VMWare Administrators was working with VMWare vendor support in looking at some SAN connection issues and was requesting a report showing the following information: Host, Name, HBAName, Source, … Continue reading →

Posted in PowerCLI, powershell, scripts, VMWare | Tagged , , , | 22 Comments

Quick Tip To Find Out What Your Background Jobs Are Doing

Posted on November 4, 2011 by Boe Prox

One of the great things about PowerShell is the use of background jobs to run long operations while still having access to your console, or running multiple jobs to gather your data that much quicker than doing a sequential approach. … Continue reading →

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Querying UDP Ports with PowerShell: Part 2

Posted on October 23, 2011 by Boe Prox

In my previous post on working with UDP ports and PowerShell I showed you how you can set up listeners on both your local and remote systems to send and receive data through those ports.  While this is a great … Continue reading →

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PowerShell Profile Removal GUI

Posted on October 5, 2011 by Boe Prox

In a previous article, I showed you how you can use PowerShell to remove local profiles from local and remote systems. A couple of downsides to using this was: This only worked on Vista and above Operating Systems You can … Continue reading →

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