Category Archives: powershell

Audit VMware VM’s for Creator and write to vCenter VM notes with PowerShell and PowerCLI 4.1.1

Posted on May 15, 2011 by Boe Prox

I will start off by saying that this was not my idea to create this awesome script. The real hero behind this is Alan Renouf who first published the original script here.  For anyone working with VMware and PowerShell, Alan’s … Continue reading →

Posted in PowerCLI, powershell, scripts, VMWare | Tagged , , | 2 Comments

Guest Blog on “Hey Scripting Guy!” About Administrator Credential Check

Posted on May 11, 2011 by Boe Prox

Once again I had the great honor of being asked to write a guest blog for the Hey Scripting Guy! Microsoft blog (my second guest blog). This time I was asked to pick a topic from the Scripting Games that … Continue reading →

Posted in News, powershell | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Retrieving contents of Hosts file using PowerShell

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Boe Prox

I decided that I wanted a way to view all of the hosts file on a bunch of servers and see just what is listed.  Most of the code is fairly straight-forward where I use Test-Connection and Test-Path to validate … Continue reading →

Posted in powershell, scripts | Tagged , , | 6 Comments

Quick-Hits: List 25 newest scripts in Microsoft Script Repository

Posted on March 13, 2011 by Boe Prox

This is a just a quick script to query the rss feed of the Microsoft Script Repository for the newest 25 scripts that have been uploaded.  Just 4 lines of code to get this accomplished, which is yet another reason … Continue reading →

Posted in powershell, scripts | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Find pending updates on local or remote computers

Posted on March 7, 2011 by Boe Prox

This is more of an upgrade to a vbscript I found to run on all of our servers at work. Originally I used the vbscript along with PSExec to remotely run the file on each remote machine which would then … Continue reading →

Posted in powershell, scripts, WSUS | Tagged , , | 27 Comments