Tag Archives: Powershell

Find and Report Members of a Local Group

Posted on January 22, 2013 by Boe Prox

One of the things that a Sys Admin might want to know about is who exactly is in a group, such as Administrators. Getting it from one system is pretty simple, but pulling this data from multiple remote systems can … Continue reading →

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Quick Hits: Speed Up Some of your Commands by Avoiding the Pipeline

Posted on January 13, 2013 by Boe Prox

Sometimes running a command using the pipeline can take a while depending on the amount of data that is being processed. For the easiest example, I will make use of Get-Random to demonstrate the differences in speed and how much … Continue reading →

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Name Change to PoshWSUS Commands with PoshWSUS 2.1

Posted on January 9, 2013 by Boe Prox

If you remember, I posted a poll regarding the renaming of the PoshWSUS commands to avoid a naming collision with the UpdateServices module now available with Windows 2012/8 which use the *-WSUS* format. Well, after letting the poll sit for … Continue reading →

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PowerShell and Excel: Adding a Chart and Header Filter to a Report

Posted on December 24, 2012 by Boe Prox

In the previous articles I have shown you how to use Excel with PowerShell to make a nice disk space report, complete with color coded rows for disks that are running low on space. I am now going to take … Continue reading →

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PowerShell and Excel: Adding Some Formatting To Your Report

Posted on December 20, 2012 by Boe Prox

Continuing from my previous Excel article, I will now take the report that I created and make more pleasant to the eyes and really show why this is different from just piping the output into Export-CSV to a CSV file. … Continue reading →

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