Renaming directories with invalid names
Somehow, a client managed to create several directories with names that ended with a period. However, File Explorer and other tools (i.e., backup) are unable to...
Author: Geoff
Sr. System Administrator at the University of Vermont
Troubleshooting Offline Files
My previous post describes the normal operation of Offline Files. And most of the time, “it just works.” But there are times when it won’t, an...
Folder Redirection and Offline Files
The following information is not new. We are in the process of making changes to our Folder Redirection policy, though, and I thought it might be helpful to hav...
TechEd 2014: Deploying MBAM 2.5
For my reference, a video of a session I missed at TechEd. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rFhJGVgAto Also available via Microsoft Channel 9 ( downloads availa...
Come work at UVM!
Join my team of awesome SysAdmins! UVM is currently hiring a Senior Windows/Exchange administrator and a Senior Linux administrator. #UVM #Jobs
PowerShell Script: New-RandomString.ps1
I need to automate the setting of passwords on some Active Directory accounts. Since resetting passwords is also a task that I’m asked to perform with som...
PowerShell documentation error – loop labels
I’ve been banging my head on a problem with a script I’m writing. I want to stop executing an inner loop and resume with the next iteration of an ou...
Get-PrintJobs.ps1 PowerShell script
After a recent upgrade of our print servers, I discovered that the Print Spooler service event logging had been enhanced, and changed enough that some PowerShe...
Business Practices That Refuse To Die #44: Email Trees
Saw this video at TechEd 2014 in a presentation on Yammer and Enterprise Social Media. I keep losing track of it when I want to share it, so I’m posting i...
Set default printer with PowerShell
Closely related to my previous post, this simple script uses a WScript.Network COM object to set the default printer. The comment block is longer than the scrip...