Category Archives: powershell

WSUS: Viewing Updates with PowerShell

Posted on October 11, 2010 by Boe Prox

In my previous post, I showed you how to make a connection to a WSUS server, view clients reporting to the server and how to start and view the progress of a WSUS sync. In this post, I will show … Continue reading →

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Manage WSUS with Powershell

Posted on October 10, 2010 by Boe Prox

Many of you probably use WSUS as your enterprise patching solution.  For those of you who are unfamiliar with WSUS, please check out this link for more information. With WSUS 3.0, you are now able to download and install the … Continue reading →

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Retrieving Windows Experience Index via WMI

Posted on September 20, 2010 by Boe Prox

You may have seen this on your Vista or Windows 7 machine. As you can tell, mine is probably average, but did you know that you can retrieve this locally or remotely via WMI using the Win32_WinSat class? You can … Continue reading →

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Custom Powershell Objects and Performance

Posted on September 19, 2010 by Boe Prox

One of the things that I have been seeing are the different ways to compile a report or to create a collection of custom objects in Powershell.  In fact, there was a comment on a previous post saying that I … Continue reading →

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Scanning ports on multiple hosts

Posted on September 11, 2010 by Boe Prox

Recently we had an issue that called into the use of checking to see if some ports were open and listening on our servers.  Naturally, we could have used a tool such as portqry.exe to gather this information. However, you … Continue reading →

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