Category Archives: scripts

Patch Installation using PowerShell, VBScript and PSExec

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Boe Prox

In my current environment, I am one of many people in our shop that carry the same task as many of you. That task is to patch our systems to ensure we keep ourselves up to date on the latest … Continue reading →

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Audit VMware VM’s for Creator and write to vCenter VM notes with PowerShell and PowerCLI 4.1.1

Posted on May 15, 2011 by Boe Prox

I will start off by saying that this was not my idea to create this awesome script. The real hero behind this is Alan Renouf who first published the original script here.  For anyone working with VMware and PowerShell, Alan’s … Continue reading →

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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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