Author Archives: Boe Prox

Viewing Print Queue Statistics with PowerShell

Posted on November 21, 2010 by Boe Prox

Leveraging WMI, you can easily view and manipulate print queues on a print server via PowerShell.  You can do anything from building a Print Queue, deleting a print queue and cancelling all print jobs on an existing queue. You can … Continue reading →

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WSUS Administrator Module

Posted on November 14, 2010 by Boe Prox

This has been a few months in the making to get what I think is a decent build of my WSUS Administrator Module.  My goal with this module was to make something that provided enough use for most aspects of … Continue reading →

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Quick-Hits: Find currently logged on users

Posted on November 1, 2010 by Boe Prox

I was recently tasked with locating all servers on our network and query for users that were currently logged onto each server, either through a terminal session or logged on via console session.  This got me thinking of what ways … Continue reading →

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WSUS: Managing Groups with PowerShell

Posted on October 25, 2010 by Boe Prox

In this post, I will show how to use PowerShell to manage the Target Groups in WSUS.  Using PowerShell, you can Create and Delete groups and Add/Remove clients from groups. First, we need to setup our connection to our WSUS … Continue reading →

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WSUS: Approving and Declining Updates with PowerShell

Posted on October 16, 2010 by Boe Prox

Now that we have looked at viewing all of the updates on WSUS, we will now look at approving and declining those updates.  This can be a little bit tricky as you need to also know what Computer Target Group … Continue reading →

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