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Scheduled tasks, PowerShell’s -file parameter, and array values

Posted on May 6, 2016 by Geoff / 0 Comment

I wrote a script that accepts a comma-separated list of values, and the script worked just fine from the command-line. However, when I tried to configure a sche...

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Robocopy file classes

Posted on April 1, 2015 by Geoff / 1 Comment

This information comes from the Robocopy.exe documentation PDF file for Windows XP version, but it’s the best description I’ve been able to find. Fr...

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Readable System Event logs

Posted on March 26, 2015 by Geoff / 0 Comment

I think I’m not alone in finding the Service Control Manager logs so many informational events as to make it hard to read the important events in the Syst...

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Quick tip – Human readable folder sizes in Excel

Posted on June 27, 2014 by Geoff / 0 Comment

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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Adding VMware Tools to WinPE 4.0

Posted on June 24, 2013 by Geoff / 0 Comment

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...

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Custom event log queries

Posted on June 14, 2012 by Geoff / 0 Comment

I really like the newer event log model on Windows 2008 family, and the flexibility of the XML events and the queries that makes possible. Recently, I started n...

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Use it up – Brother HL-3070CW Toner

Posted on April 28, 2012 by Geoff / 0 Comment

Use it up, Wear it out, Make it do, or Do without. There are some things that we can’t really do without. But good old Yankee thrift pains me every time I hav...

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Webmail on a Netbook

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Geoff / 0 Comment

Amid the praise for and complaints about the newer version of webmail, we received a plea from a netbook user. She pointed out that the new layout made it very ...

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Elevated ShellRunAs

Posted on March 4, 2009 by Geoff / 0 Comment

Back in the day, I was a good Windows admin and did my administration using the Windows Server admin tools from my workstation, logged in with a non-admin user,...

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Worklog – Wednesday, Feb 25

Posted on February 25, 2009 by Geoff / 0 Comment

Service restarts on some hosts. Looked into automating some periodic restarts. One app vendor suggests using SQL Agent. I don’t really like the idea of using ...

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