Category Archives: powershell

PowerCLI 4.1 cmdlet poster

Posted on September 6, 2010 by Boe Prox

Working with a VMWare infrastructure, I have been getting more involved with the PowerCLI snap-in that is available for download to manage our systems.  In case anyone was wondering, you can download and print off a poster listing all of … Continue reading →

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Converting CSV file or files into an Excel workbook

Posted on September 4, 2010 by Boe Prox

Update 07SEPT2010: Updated script based on an excellent comment to use the Paste() method for converting CSV files into an excel workbook. Thanks Luc! While going through the Technet Powershell Forums and Scripting Guys Forums, I came across a question … Continue reading →

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Convert bytes to highest available unit

Posted on August 29, 2010 by Boe Prox

Unfortunately, I had something else in mind to post this weekend, but life and some other things prevented me from doing so.  Maybe next weekend… Because I wanted to get at least something out this weekend, I am going to … Continue reading →

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Balloon Notifications with Powershell

Posted on August 22, 2010 by Boe Prox

You’ve probably seen those balloon pop-ups at your computer at some point in time.  Most likely it was saying something about having updates that need to be installed on your computer.  They pop-up and say something and you can either … Continue reading →

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Powershell, Regular Expressions And You!

Posted on August 14, 2010 by Boe Prox

“^(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)$” Pretty scary, isn’t it? While most of you will never have to build something this long and complex, it still is a nice idea to learn how to use Regular Expressions in your scripts when you need to look … Continue reading →

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