Category Archives: powershell

Using Background Runspaces Instead of PSJobs For Better Performance

Posted on May 13, 2012 by Boe Prox

In my previous article, I showed you a function to query remote servers for their network information using background runspaces to speed things up. To follow up on that article based on some questions and comments I received from that … Continue reading →

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Speedy Network Information Query Using PowerShell

Posted on May 10, 2012 by Boe Prox

Taking a page from my Advanced Event 2 script that I used in my Expert Commentary on Hey, Scripting Guy!, I wanted to put something together to query for basic networking information from both local and remote systems and accomplish … Continue reading →

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Updating An Existing Get-ProductKey Function

Posted on May 4, 2012 by Boe Prox

A couple of days ago I received my daily PowerTips email from PowerShell.com talking about how to get the Windows Product key via PowerShell from your local system. The code is simple and to the point to look for and … Continue reading →

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Yet Another Countdown Timer Using PowerShell

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Boe Prox

So I have been literally sitting on this script for about a year now and am finally looking to publish it after seeing Josh Atwell’s awesome post about writing a countdown timer in the PowerShell console and using it as … Continue reading →

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Scripting Games 2012: Know When To Use Format-Table

Posted on April 18, 2012 by Boe Prox

This was a common occurrence during the Scripting Games. Someone writing a great script or one liner that gave me everything that I needed. But then right at the end I see something like this: | Format-Table Ok, what is … Continue reading →

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