Scheduled tasks, PowerShell’s -file parameter, and array values
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...
Tag: WindowsServer
Readable System Event logs
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
VSS diagnostics
For the past eight month, I’ve been working with EMC and Microsoft to diagnose a problem. Several time a month, during the backup of our primary Windows 2008 ...
Custom event log queries
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...
Script: Shadow Copy Report
We use EMC NetWorker for our enterprise backup solution. Since we migrated our primary file server from a NetApp filer to a native Windows server, we’ve been ...
Custom FSRM notification script
I’ve been working on a script to generate an informative message to users when they exceed quota thresholds on our file server. The features of the File S...