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August 9, 2011Aug 9, 201108/9/11Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to convert security descriptors to different formats.
Hey, Scripting Guy! I was reading through a listing of WMI methods recently, and I ran across a WMI class that looks interesting—Win32_SecurityDescriptorHelper. I think it will help me,
January 14, 2011Jan 14, 201101/14/11
Summary: Learn how to use jobs to run parallel queries, remove objects from active memory, work with text files and use the Get-Member Cmdlet to go behind the scenes of PowerShell commands in this edition of Quick Hits Friday.
June 18, 2010Jun 18, 201006/18/10In this post:
In Windows PowerShell, How Can I Pipe the Contents of a Property to a Command?
Using WMI for Security Event Log Tracing
In Windows PowerShell, How Can I Pipe the Contents of a Property to a Command?
May 23, 2010May 23, 201005/23/10
Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. I was sitting in the kitchen waiting for my pot of English Breakfast tea to steep when my mind began to wander back over the week that was nearly completed. One of these days I will write a script to count the number of words in all the documents in a folder.
April 7, 2010Apr 7, 201004/7/10Hey Scripting Guy! Our previous network administrator was a slouch. He did not maintain proper backups, never reviewed event logs, and never cleaned up user folders when he deleted users in Active Directory. This last omission is particularly egregious because it has taken a lot of cleanup work to find and delete the user folders.
February 12, 2010Feb 12, 201002/12/10In this post:
I Think You Guys Made a Mistake in This Article I Found
Using Windows PowerShell to Set the “Managed By” Field
How Can I Name Folders with Owners’ User Names?
How Can I Tell If I Am Running Windows PowerShell 2.0?
September 25, 2009Sep 25, 200909/25/09Can I Find Out Who Has Access to a Group of Files and Folders?
Hey, Scripting Guy! For security reasons I need to find out who has access to a certain group of files and folders. Using the Get-Acl cmdlet, I can get a list of which IDs and groups have which kinds of access to the target files and folders.
September 17, 2009Sep 17, 200909/17/09Share this post:
Hey, Scripting Guy! There is this guy at work…well, actually he used to be at work and that is the problem. He left the company. The way security has been implemented at our company, I have to check specific folders,
September 16, 2009Sep 16, 200909/16/09Share this post:
Hey, Scripting Guy! Our company is in the process of obtaining the ISO 20000 certification for IT service management and as a result it seems we have to have documentation and processes in place for everything. In the past when I created a folder I would manually set the security when I was finished.
September 15, 2009Sep 15, 200909/15/09Share this post:
Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to find out what folders a user has specifically been granted or denied access to. I do not need the specific rights that were granted. I only need to find out where the user was specifically granted or denied access.
