Author Archives: Boe Prox

Guest Blog on Hey, Scripting Guy! on Querying for X509 Certificates

Posted on February 16, 2011 by Boe Prox

A month ago, I was asked by Ed Wilson if I wanted to write a guest blog on the Hey, Scripting Guy blog. Naturally, I said yes to this because this an opportunity to write for a great guy like … Continue reading →

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Retrieving Weather Information From A Web Service Provider

Posted on February 15, 2011 by Boe Prox

I noticed on my twitter feed about a PowerTip from powershell.com that showed you how to retrieve the weather information from a given web service. This is a pretty cool 3 lines of code that used the New-WebServiceProxy cmdlet that … Continue reading →

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Using PowerShell to Query Web Site Information

Posted on February 11, 2011 by Boe Prox

In my last post, I showed you how to use the Test-Connection cmdlet to test your internet access.  In this post, I can show you how to use Net.WebRequest or the Net.WebClient to send a request to website and verify … Continue reading →

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Quick Hits: Test Internet Access

Posted on February 7, 2011 by Boe Prox

A while back I was having all sorts of internet connection issues with my ISP.  The connection would drop and I would have to play the “click refresh” game with my browser and wait until the magical moment when I … Continue reading →

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Quick Hits: Ping Sweep One Liner

Posted on January 31, 2011 by Boe Prox

So I was curious as to how many active ip addresses I had on my network and didn’t feel like manually typing “ping <ipaddress>” and wait for it to timeout and then “rinse and repeat”.  Along comes Test-Connection and the … Continue reading →

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