Category Archives: scripts

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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PoshChat 2 of 2: Building a Chat Client Using PowerShell

Posted on March 7, 2012 by Boe Prox

Continuing from yesterday’s article where I talked about how I wrote the code to run the chat server portion of PoshChat, this article will now go into what I did to create the client interface that connects to the server … Continue reading →

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PoshChat 1 of 2: Building a Chat Server Using PowerShell

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Boe Prox

As you have seen in my previous article, I wrote and published version 0.9 of PoshChat, my implementation of a PowerShell client/server chat room. As promised, this is part 1 of  a 2 part article series detailing how I wrote … Continue reading →

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Introduction to PoshChat, A PowerShell Chat Client/Server

Posted on March 4, 2012 by Boe Prox

After a couple months of off and on work on this project, I can finally say that I have release my initial build of PoshChat, which is in version 0.9. This is a simple client/server chat room that allows any … Continue reading →

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