Be clear about in-person meeting expectations
Many folks have become accustomed to having the option to participate in meetings remotely. It can be a frustrating surprise to sit down to join that next meeti...
Tag: Tools
Transitioning from PowerShell ISE to VS Code
Jeffrey Snover has said that all new IDE development is targeting Visual Studio Code. It’s a really nice environment. It also has built-in Git support.
One-liner: duplicate a folder collection, without files
New fiscal year; new set of empty folders, but with the same structure and permissions as the previous year? Robocopy to the rescue: /e = copy all subdirectorie...
Robocopy file classes
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...
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...
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...
Add network printer with PowerShell
This is my PowerShwell translation of my colleague’s VBScript solution for mapping network printers with a script. For use with Group Policy, it will prob...
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...
Excellent Git Tutorial
This video of a presentation by Scott Chacon has helped me start to get my head around Git. I’ve started experimenting with Git in my current PowerShell p...
Powershell, ACLs, and DFS-N
I’m working on some storage issues with our file services, and DFS Namespace services may the the best solution. But I will need to be able to keep the pe...