Tag Archives: Powershell

Quick Hits: Get-Date -uFormat possibilities

Posted on October 1, 2010 by Boe Prox

For those of you that have used the Get-Date -uFormat and am not sure what each possible option is, this little snippet will give you all of the information you need. 65..90 | % {“$([char]$_): $(Date -u %$([char]$_))”};97..122 | % … Continue reading →

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Retrieving Windows Experience Index via WMI

Posted on September 20, 2010 by Boe Prox

You may have seen this on your Vista or Windows 7 machine. As you can tell, mine is probably average, but did you know that you can retrieve this locally or remotely via WMI using the Win32_WinSat class? You can … Continue reading →

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Custom Powershell Objects and Performance

Posted on September 19, 2010 by Boe Prox

One of the things that I have been seeing are the different ways to compile a report or to create a collection of custom objects in Powershell.  In fact, there was a comment on a previous post saying that I … Continue reading →

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Scanning ports on multiple hosts

Posted on September 11, 2010 by Boe Prox

Recently we had an issue that called into the use of checking to see if some ports were open and listening on our servers.  Naturally, we could have used a tool such as portqry.exe to gather this information. However, you … Continue reading →

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PowerCLI 4.1 cmdlet poster

Posted on September 6, 2010 by Boe Prox

Working with a VMWare infrastructure, I have been getting more involved with the PowerCLI snap-in that is available for download to manage our systems.  In case anyone was wondering, you can download and print off a poster listing all of … Continue reading →

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