Tag Archives: Powershell

Creating a Symbolic Link using PowerShell

Posted on July 16, 2013 by Boe Prox

Recently, I had a need to create a symbolic link while running a scan on some systems and found that there was not a native way in PowerShell to accomplish this. Now I can use mklink.exe to make this work, … Continue reading →

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Font Dialog Selection using PowerShell

Posted on July 13, 2013 by Boe Prox

While I was working on an update to my PoshChat project, one of the requests that I had was to allow for font size changes on the client UI. I wanted the user to have the capability to not only … Continue reading →

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Using the WSUS API and PowerShell to Perform Maintenance on the SUSDB Database

Posted on July 7, 2013 by Boe Prox

In my previous article, I showed how you can utilize the Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) API to connect to the SUSDB database that is being used by the WSUS server to perform T-SQL queries against the database for information. … Continue reading →

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Use the WSUS API and PowerShell to query the SUSDB Database

Posted on July 7, 2013 by Boe Prox

While we know that the WSUS API can be used to perform a multitude of WSUS tasks from approving patches, removing clients to creating automatic approval rules. Diving deeper into the API reveals that we can also find out the … Continue reading →

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PoshChat Updated to 1.0

Posted on July 5, 2013 by Boe Prox

After about a year of doing nothing with my project, PoshChat, I decided it was time to push out an update that I have been working on here and there. This is one of those projects that is really fun … Continue reading →

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