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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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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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Renaming directories with invalid names

Posted on March 26, 2015 by Geoff / 0 Comment

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...

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TechEd 2014: Deploying MBAM 2.5

Posted on November 11, 2014 by Geoff / 0 Comment

For my reference, a video of a session I missed at TechEd. Also available via Microsoft Channel 9 ( downloads available ).

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Remote Desktop Gateway

Posted on February 10, 2014 by Geoff / 0 Comment

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...

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Who’s logged into Server 2012?

Posted on September 17, 2013 by Geoff / 0 Comment

I’m severely disappointed that Microsoft has removed from Server 2012 the tools required for managing and configuring Remote Desktop for Administration. O...

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VSS diagnostics

Posted on August 31, 2012 by Geoff / 0 Comment

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 ...

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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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Script: Shadow Copy Report

Posted on March 23, 2012 by Geoff / 0 Comment

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 ...

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Custom FSRM notification script

Posted on January 20, 2012 by Geoff / 0 Comment

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...

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