Tag Archives: Powershell

Use PowerShell and WMI to Locate Multiple Files on Any Drive in your Domain

Posted on February 1, 2013 by Boe Prox

A couple of days ago I was browsing my RSS feeds and came across an article that PowerShell MVP Jeffery Hicks wrote regarding the use of finding files using WMI with a function called Get-CimFile. That article is listed below: … Continue reading →

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PowerShell and Events: Engine Events

Posted on January 30, 2013 by Boe Prox

There are 4 types of events  that you can register and use for Event Handling: Engine Events, Object events (.Net),CIM (PowerShell V3 only) and WMI events . These provide a great way to provide some asynchronous event handling to monitor … Continue reading →

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Report the CrashOnAuditFail Setting on Your Computers

Posted on January 28, 2013 by Boe Prox

CrashOnAuditFail is a setting on each operating system that is used to essentially stop your system if it can no longer write to the Security log. the stop us typically a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) that bring the system … Continue reading →

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PowerShell Patch Utility PoshPAIG Updated to 2.1.5

Posted on January 25, 2013 by Boe Prox

I have just released version 2.1.5 of PoshPAIG, my patching utility, to the public. It is available for download at http://poshpaig.codeplex.com. I spent quite a bit of time ripping out the PSJobs infrastructure and replacing it with background PowerShell runspaces … Continue reading →

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Building an Xbox Live Widget using PowerShell

Posted on January 24, 2013 by Boe Prox

Something a little fun that I had the opportunity to work on was building a Xbox Live widget using PowerShell that does a nice job of capturing all of the relevant information that a Xbox live person would like to … Continue reading →

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