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Tag Archives: invoke-webrequest
Get or update SysInternals tools with PowerShell
This is version 2 – the previous version relied on mapping a new PSDrive directly to \\live.sysinternals.com\tools which made things easy, but that no longer seems to work (or at least not for me, might be my web filtering blocking … Continue reading
Posted in PowerShell, Windows
Tagged invoke-webrequest, powershell, regex, sysinternals, tools, utilities, windows
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Test your web access with PowerShell
I had a few issues yesterday with intermittent access to the internet. Some sites worked, others didn’t. The ones that didn’t work weren’t resolving via DNS, and the ones that did work didn’t always display correctly (presumably due to bits … Continue reading
Posted in PowerShell
Tagged access, check, connection, connectivity, internet, invoke-webrequest, powershell, resolve-dnsname, status, test, web
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PowerShell: QuickAddress Pro data expiry checker
QAS Pro (formerly QuickAddress Pro) is a database of addresses that allows you to do postcode lookups etc. Its database is updated every few months, and the databases have expiry dates built in – if you don’t keep the database … Continue reading
Posted in Applications, PowerShell
Tagged check, expiry, greater than, invoke-webrequest, less than or equal, powershell, qas pro, quickaddress, regex, regexp, regular expression, remaining, switch
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