Tag Archives: Powershell

Retrieving contents of Hosts file using PowerShell

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Boe Prox

I decided that I wanted a way to view all of the hosts file on a bunch of servers and see just what is listed.  Most of the code is fairly straight-forward where I use Test-Connection and Test-Path to validate … Continue reading →

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Quick-Hits: List 25 newest scripts in Microsoft Script Repository

Posted on March 13, 2011 by Boe Prox

This is a just a quick script to query the rss feed of the Microsoft Script Repository for the newest 25 scripts that have been uploaded.  Just 4 lines of code to get this accomplished, which is yet another reason … Continue reading →

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Find pending updates on local or remote computers

Posted on March 7, 2011 by Boe Prox

This is more of an upgrade to a vbscript I found to run on all of our servers at work. Originally I used the vbscript along with PSExec to remotely run the file on each remote machine which would then … Continue reading →

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Retrieve SQL Database and Transaction Log File Sizes using Get-Counter

Posted on March 4, 2011 by Boe Prox

This is a nice little script that I used to find the size of all of the SQL server database (MDF) and Transaction Log (LDF) files on each SQL server that we have. This stems from a task I had … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Community Contributor Award | 2011

Posted on February 27, 2011 by Boe Prox

On Friday afternoon I was checking my email when I came across an email from support@microsoftcommunitycontributor.com saying that I was being awarded for my contributions to the Microsoft community. Dear Boe, Congratulations! We’re pleased to inform you that your contributions … Continue reading →

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