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Automating the world one-liner at a time…

Copy-Acl

Today my wife told me about a problem on the family PC.  There were a bunch of PDF files in a directory that had the wrong permissions so my son couldn’t access them.  She modified the ACL on one of them using Explorer and verified that that was the fix.  (This is from a test I ran) (image) She then selected them all and ...

Fun With Alerts (“`a”)

I just decided to restart Outlook to see if that made some weirdness I was experiencing go away.  As you may or may not know, the Outlook process often is running for quite a bit after the Outlook window goes away.  As such, you really don’t want to start another instance of Outlook until the first version is done.  In V2, ...

PowerShell V2 – backward compatibility

Windows PowerShell 2.0 is backward compatible with Windows PowerShell 1.0. All the scripts written for V1 should work in V2. If you find instances of broken scripts from v1 please let us know through our connect site https://connect.microsoft.com/site/sitehome.aspx?SiteID=99 However there are few points to be noted:   Breaking ...

PowerShellToys – WOW!

Gent Hito and the superstars at /n software has just announced a new product division, PowerShellToys.  This division is focused exclusively in PowerShell technologies.  PowerShellToys products bridge other Microsoft technologies to PowerShell making it easily accessible to other developers: Web Developers, Desktop Application ...