Tag Archives: Powershell

Creating Snippets in PowerShell

Posted on April 8, 2013 by Boe Prox

For those of you using PowerShell V3’s new Integrated Script Editor (ISE) and be honest, why aren’t you? Besides all of the awesome stuff with code folding, intellisense, etc…, there is also another cool feature that is available is the … Continue reading →

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Split-Path Performance in PowerShell

Posted on April 3, 2013 by Boe Prox

While working on my previous article, I was trying to determine the best way to lay out all of the properties I wanted. While I was getting the full path of a file, I also wanted just the filename as … Continue reading →

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Excerpt of WSUS Chapter from PowerShell Deep Dives on Hey, Scripting Guy!

Posted on April 2, 2013 by Boe Prox

An excerpt from one of my chapters on WSUS from the PowerShell Deep Dives book was posted on Hey, Scripting Guy! today. Check it out and let me know what you think! http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/04/02/windows-software-update-services.aspx

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List All Files Regardless of 260 Character Path Restriction Using PowerShell and Robocopy

Posted on April 1, 2013 by Boe Prox

A common pain had by many System Administrators is when you are trying to recursively list all files and folders in a given path or even retrieve the total size of a folder. After waiting for a while in hopes … Continue reading →

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Use PowerShell To Calculate the Hash of a File

Posted on March 25, 2013 by Boe Prox

I’m pretty sure that everyone has something similar to a hash calculator that has been written in PowerShell or some other language and I am no different. This is my take on a simple file hash calculator to determine the … Continue reading →

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