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Transitioning from PowerShell ISE to VS Code

Posted on February 24, 2017 by Geoff / 0 Comment

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.

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One-liner: duplicate a folder collection, without files

Posted on April 20, 2015 by Geoff / 0 Comment

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...

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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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PowerShell Script: New-RandomString.ps1

Posted on November 7, 2014 by Geoff / 0 Comment

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...

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Set default printer with PowerShell

Posted on August 19, 2014 by Geoff / 0 Comment

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...

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Add network printer with PowerShell

Posted on August 18, 2014 by Geoff / 2 Comments

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...

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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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Excellent Git Tutorial

Posted on November 7, 2012 by Geoff / 0 Comment

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...

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Powershell, ACLs, and DFS-N

Posted on September 7, 2012 by Geoff / 0 Comment

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...

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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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