Author Archives: Boe Prox

Of Deep Dives and Scripting Games

Posted on May 10, 2011 by Boe Prox

It’s been a while since I had an actual posting and at least a few weeks since I attended the PowerShell Deep Dive in Las Vegas, NV and took part in the 2011 Scripting Games. I’ve been meaning to write … Continue reading →

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Still Alive and Kicking

Posted on April 30, 2011 by Boe Prox

It has been a while since I last posted. I have by no means abandoned my blog for greener pastures. I have been deeply entrenched with some side projects (PoshWSUS and WSUS Patch/Audit GUI), work, the 2011 Scripting Games and … Continue reading →

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Retrieving contents of Hosts file using PowerShell

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Boe Prox

I decided that I wanted a way to view all of the hosts file on a bunch of servers and see just what is listed.  Most of the code is fairly straight-forward where I use Test-Connection and Test-Path to validate … Continue reading →

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Quick-Hits: List 25 newest scripts in Microsoft Script Repository

Posted on March 13, 2011 by Boe Prox

This is a just a quick script to query the rss feed of the Microsoft Script Repository for the newest 25 scripts that have been uploaded.  Just 4 lines of code to get this accomplished, which is yet another reason … Continue reading →

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Find pending updates on local or remote computers

Posted on March 7, 2011 by Boe Prox

This is more of an upgrade to a vbscript I found to run on all of our servers at work. Originally I used the vbscript along with PSExec to remotely run the file on each remote machine which would then … Continue reading →

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