Quick tip – Human readable folder sizes in Excel
From the school of There’s Probably a Better Way, But… I was taking the output of SysInternals’ du.exe utility and wanted to email it to a col...
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Updating firewall rules with netsh
I needed to adjust the scope of a built-in firewall rule in a couple of servers, restricting the remote IPs to a list of UVM subnets in CIDR notation. The netsh...
Remote Desktop Gateway
In order to connect to the Remote Desktop service on centrally managed servers from on or off campus, you need to use the Remote Desktop (RD) Gateway feature of...
Outlook 2013 at UVM
UPDATE! All UVM email accounts have been migrated to Microsoft Exchange, and so this guide is no longer necessary. Outlook 2013 and 2016 setup is very easy, and...
Software updates user experience
As we transition from Windows Automatic Updates to the more capable System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM or ConfigMgr), the timing and the appearance of al...
Who’s logged into Server 2012?
I’m severely disappointed that Microsoft has removed from Server 2012 the tools required for managing and configuring Remote Desktop for Administration. O...
Mark Minasi’s talk: The Case for Powershell
With Mark’s permission, I’m mirroring the video of his recent web talk “The Case for PowerShell: Why You Should Learn-PowerShell So You Needn&...
PowerShell One-liner
Wondering about the physical memory configuration of a system?
Adding VMware Tools to WinPE 4.0
I’m trying to augment the Bare Metal Recovery boot image provided by EMC as part of the NetWorker Client to support recovery in our VMware vSphere environ...
PowerShell one-liner – renaming files
Camera named files like this: P1050640.JPG. To rename the all files in the directory, I used the following: