Scripting Blog [archived]

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August 2008 - Scripting Blog [archived]

Hey, Scripting Guy! What’s Going on in the Service Host Process?

August 29, 2008 Aug 29, 2008 08/29/08
ScriptingGuy1
(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! I think I might have a problem on my server. When I go into Task Manager, all the processes that are eating up the most CPU time and the most memory are the stupid svchost.exe process. I know this is the Service Host process and that it is being used by multiple services, but how can I know what is really going ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Troubleshoot Drive-Mapping Issues?

August 25, 2008 Aug 25, 2008 08/25/08
ScriptingGuy1
(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! We have this problem at work. Users seem to always be losing their mapped drives. It is a real mess, and we spend a couple hours every morning trying to help the users remap their drives. We have more than 160 logon scripts, and it seems that one logon script maps a drive, and then another remaps the drive ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Find Files’ Metadata?

August 14, 2008 Aug 14, 2008 08/14/08
ScriptingGuy1
(image) Hey Scripting Guy! I have a folder of media files, documents, etc., and I would like to see the metadata that is associated with each file. Can I do this with Windows PowerShell?-- EJ(image) (image) Hi EJ, I suspect that you are more interested in "data about data." Various applications store additional descriptive information ...