Category Archives: powershell

Enable .Net 4.0 access from PowerShell V2

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Boe Prox

While working on an update to one of my projects, PoshPAIG, I decided that I wanted to take a look at using a DataGrid as a possible replacement to the use of a ListView. The problem I ran into right … Continue reading →

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Compare-Object Weirdness? Or Business as Usual?

Posted on January 2, 2012 by Boe Prox

I came across this forum question on the Hey, Scripting Guy! forum the other day and couldn’t help but take up the challenge of finding out and providing (hopefully) a good explanation as to why the following code snippet did … Continue reading →

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PoshWSUS 2.0 released

Posted on December 30, 2011 by Boe Prox

Actually, it is now 2.0.1 as I have fixed a couple of bugs in the module. But yes, I have finally released version 2.0 of PoshWSUS on Codeplex. Please go out there to check out all of the new features … Continue reading →

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Use PowerCLI to Report Storage Paths in your ESXi Environment

Posted on December 29, 2011 by Boe Prox

Just something I wanted to share with the community… One of our VMWare Administrators was working with VMWare vendor support in looking at some SAN connection issues and was requesting a report showing the following information: Host, Name, HBAName, Source, … Continue reading →

Posted in PowerCLI, powershell, scripts, VMWare | Tagged , , , | 22 Comments

Quick Tip To Find Out What Your Background Jobs Are Doing

Posted on November 4, 2011 by Boe Prox

One of the great things about PowerShell is the use of background jobs to run long operations while still having access to your console, or running multiple jobs to gather your data that much quicker than doing a sequential approach. … Continue reading →

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