Author Archives: Boe Prox

Retrieve SQL Database and Transaction Log File Sizes using Get-Counter

Posted on March 4, 2011 by Boe Prox

This is a nice little script that I used to find the size of all of the SQL server database (MDF) and Transaction Log (LDF) files on each SQL server that we have. This stems from a task I had … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Community Contributor Award | 2011

Posted on February 27, 2011 by Boe Prox

On Friday afternoon I was checking my email when I came across an email from support@microsoftcommunitycontributor.com saying that I was being awarded for my contributions to the Microsoft community. Dear Boe, Congratulations! We’re pleased to inform you that your contributions … Continue reading →

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Creating a Report of Log File Data using Regular Expressions, Arrays and Hash Table

Posted on February 24, 2011 by Boe Prox

As I was checking my email early in the morning, I saw an email from co-worker asking me to write a script to parse through some logs that were generated from another script that listed the date the script is … Continue reading →

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Querying UDP Ports with PowerShell

Posted on February 21, 2011 by Boe Prox

It was brought to my attention earlier in the week that my Test-Port script had a fairly big bug involving checking the UDP port to determine whether it was open or not. Initially, the function would always come back with … Continue reading →

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More Web Services with PowerShell: Geo IP Location

Posted on February 19, 2011 by Boe Prox

Now that I have been bitten by the New-WebServiceProxy bug and built the weather function in a previous blog, I decided to work on another function to grab an IP address and show the country of origin. So without re-hashing … Continue reading →

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