Tag Archives: report

Building a Chart Using PowerShell and Chart Controls

Reports are one of those things that everyone has done at some point in time using a variety of methods to include, Excel, XML, CSV, HTML, etc.… A lot of times, while the data is one thing to present, there … Continue reading

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WSUS Server HTML Report

While presenting at the Philly PowerShell User Group on Thursday, one of the things that I showed in my examples was an HTML report that I wrote for WSUS. This report basically does a report on various components of a … Continue reading

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WSUS Reporting: Digging Into Target Groups and Update Statuses Using PowerShell

I had an email recently asking how to report on the number of updates per Target Group. Basically when a report is run using the WSUS Management Console, you can create a tabular report that displays something similar to this: … Continue reading

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Report the CrashOnAuditFail Setting on Your Computers

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 and Excel: Creating Your Initial Report

One of the most common methods to generating a report (at least for me) is to write out the data to a CSV file using Export-CSV. While this is a simple and effective method of getting most data out to … Continue reading

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