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Powershell: Pending Windows Updates

Every now and then you need to check if your servers or client computers have pending updates. You can generate a simple list of this with Powershell. I have created a script for this on my Github named ListPendingWindowsUpdates.ps1. Here is a quick breakdown of the script, feel free to use and modify it anyway […]

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PSC: Move share

I have decided what the Power of scripting script should do! If you move a share by moving it in windows explorer the share will stop work. If you move the folder with File System Object from vbscript the share will still be there but will be pointing at the old path that no longer […]

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PSC: Basic script

So the challenge was accepted! Follow it here! One of the conditions was that the script has to perform like a program or command line tool to be exact! But why go for one when you can go for both! Still not sure what the final script will do but I have to detect how the script is […]

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Script: List users homedir size

I compiled a vbscript that loops through all the sub folders of a given folder and print out the size. The script takes the folder name and searches the Active Directory for a corresponding user. If found it prints the name of the user in the output. Use: [ps]cscript homedirsize.vbs[/ps] Three input boxes will appear… Path where the homedir […]

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Script: NTFS rights on user home directories

Have a normal Windows setup where the user have a home folder on the file server. All the users is connected to there \fileserverhome$%username% via GPO on logon. How ever we found that some of the folders had rights that where messed up. So i wrote a quick script that loopes through all folders and […]

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IIS 7 FTP access denied while uploading files

I got this strange problem yesterday at work. One of our developers was trying to upload files to e new server and he got 500 access denied each time he tried. After he spent hours double checking all the NTFS rights and IIS settings he asked me for help. At the first look I thought […]

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