I have a very large log file in which I need to count the occurrences of all the variations of a particular string; that is:
There are a large number of file IDs that appear in the format AA000####. I have to find out what the top five or ten IDs are in this file (which ones appear the most times).
I figure this can be done with select-string and regular expressions?
Can you think of a way (PowerShell preferably, but open to any suggestion) to grab the contents of a pile of Exchange 2007 resource calendars and then make these available as XML, RSS, or delimited text, or something, that can then be consumed by another application?
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Clue 1 from the Michigan Powershell Script Club: "You’d have to query via Exchange Web Services, which provides this functionality. I’ve never tried it, but people who have say it’s fairly easy."
Clue 2 from an Exchange admin at a university: "...there’s some functionality in OWA web parts that could potentially called and displayed."
We're talking about piloting VDI here, but the more research I do, the more it seems like it would make more sense just to upgrade and expand our TS (RDS) environment. I feel like you can pull off more sessions per core on RDS than on any VDI solution I've looked at. Is this the case?
Is there a decision matrix anywhere describing the benefits of using full virtualized desktops over using a remote desktop farm?
We need good video performance for clinical imaging - will this work better on one infrastructure or the other?
(Does this question have a specific enough answer for it to be on SF? Regardless, I feel like having this here will be helpful for someone in the future...)
Suddenly this morning none of my recording machines can connect to the server. There were no software updates on the client or server side this weekend. It looked like a firewall issue at first, but the connection is being built and the PodPro server is not responding.
Podcast Producer uses a sqlite3 database that lives in /var/pcast/ and it looks from the logs as though this database is locked and not allowing access.
I have tried moving it to a temp location and copying it back to remove any file-level locks but that did not work.
Anyone have experience with Podcast Producer or SQLite out there?
I have a lab area with about 75 XP boxes in it. At logon, we map two served printers with the AddWindowsPrinterConnection method in a VBS. 5-10% of the time, the users find that the printers have not mapped successfully and their print jobs fail. If they reboot or log out, the printers will usually map successfully on the second try.
I'd like to add logic to my script to check if the printers mapped properly, and if not, rerun the AddWindowsPrinterConnection command - but I don't know how to check programmatically if a printer object has been mapped.
Or is there a more reliable strategy for mapping multiple printers persistently for these profiles? Are logon scripts still the best way to do this?
Can someone describe a good pattern to compare $entry[X] to $entry[Y] to determine if they are the same? I'm trying to get readable summaries of my logs and don't want to spit out 400 identical lines.
foreach ($log in $logs) {
$nm = $log.LogDisplayName
$header = $log.LogDisplayName
Write-Host $header
Add-Content $output "$header Log Errors/Warnings, Past 48 Hours"
$entries = $log.Entries | ? {$_.TimeWritten -gt ($(Get-Date).AddDays(-2)) -and (($_.EntryType -like "Error") -or ($_.EntryType -like "Warning"))}
foreach ($entry in $entries) {
***here is where I think I need to compare array elements***
}
out-string -inputobject $entries | add-content $output
I can't seem to find any working examples of usage of the /ref switch with ImageX. Can anyone provide known working syntax?
I'm building a script to monitor my event logs. This command gathers only "Error" and "Warning" messages and places them into the $entries array.
$entries = $log.Entries |
? {$_.TimeWritten -gt ($(Get-Date).AddDays(-2)) -and `
(($_.EntryType -like "Error") -or `
($_.EntryType -like "Warning"))} |
Format-Table -wrap
If I output $entries in the console, it displays what I want - the log entries - but if I pipe this out to a text file (Add-Content $output $entries) I get the .NET class name only (System.Diagnostics.EventLogEntry). I have also tried foreach ($entry in $entries) with similar results.
What's the basic PowerShell principle I'm missing here?
I have created a Vista disk image with ImageX, largely following the instructions at http://www.svrops.com/svrops/articles/sysprepvista.htm. When I apply the image to a clean, active partition on identical hardware, I get the message "BOOTMGR is missing."
I can get the computers to boot by using the repair tool on the Vista media. If I click "Repair your computer" after booting to the OS media, Windows searches for installations, presumably finds one, and says "Windows found problems with your computer's startup options." I then still get the "BOOTMGR is missing" error - but if I run the "Repair your computer" tool again, I get a dialog that allows me to choose "Startup repair" from a bunch of options. After this, the computer will boot.
I want to understand why this is happening - and how I can avoid it, either by adding script actions after the ImageX command or otherwise.
I'm having trouble coming up with a solution to this one, maybe because I don't know enough about how Windows ACLs work.
I have two folders, let's call them Directory A and Directory B. These are contained within another directory.
The users that are supposed to see Folder B are in an AD group; Group B. It's not practical to put everyone else in a different group - this is for just a few out of 1000 users.
I just want the users who are in the group to see Folder B, and Everybody Else to just see Folder A.
How should I set up my permissions?
(In case this is relevant, these folders are for Start Menu shortcuts for users whose Start Menu is redirected to a network location via GP.)
Are there other ways in Active Directory to organize computer objects for Group Policy application besides OU?
How could one apply a policy only to certain computers in many disparate OUs? I'm looking for something akin to the Collections metaphor within SCCM, where a computer can belong to many groups.
When we manually deploy dual-boot Apple devices, this sequence of steps works well:
Why are steps 3 and 4 necessary? Why can't we just install our WIM? In fact, it would seem easier just to use Disk Utility to create a second partition and install Windows there. In this case, there wind up being three partitions, including a 200MB partition at the front of the disk.
Update: Just reproduced this again. Here are the steps so far. If anyone wants to chime in on why this behaves this way, I'd love to hear your theories.
Booting with the Option key held does not list a Windows volume.
In Diskpart, the volumes are all listed and the appropriate files are on C:. I checked boot.ini and ensured that it was configured correctly and set the partition as active.
This is the fourth in an increasingly narrow and increasingly annoying series of questions related to a hard deadline today.
Anyone know internals of how Word "prints" MDI files? My limited users have R/W access to the directory they're to be saved in, but the files are not getting saved. This process does work under an administrator account - the file is successfully saved and preview is launched.
Suggestions for debugging this?
I need to add HKCU keys and values to all machines in a specific OU, for all existing user profiles and to the default profile. What's the best way to approach this?
I could enumerate and iterate through all the NTUSER.DATs, loading the hive, adding the keys, and unloading the hive, but that seems like a clunky way to do it.
Anyone have a better idea? I'd like to script this (PowerShell preferably) and push the changes if possible, but group policy logon scripts would work too.
I need to run a .REG to add entries to the registry on logoff, but our GP environment disables regedit. I could probably accomplish this by turning regedit on, running the script, and then turning it back off again, but I'm hoping there's a more elegant solution than that.
I need to enforce the MDI file format as the default choice for MODI printing rather than TIFF. Anyone know if this is a registry setting or something that's available in Group Policy?
Also see question How do you disable or uninstall NetRestore from a NetBoot server?.
Edited to add this link to a great document that I should have been using all along but didn't find until it was too late.
I've successfully removed NetRestore from my NetBoot server and am trying to install DeployStudio. It's my understanding that the bootable NBI should be automatically generated by running the DeployStudio Assistant, but the documentation isn't very clear on this.
Do I need to run the separate "Create a DeployStudio NetBoot Set" function in the Assistant? The Assistant dialogs are confusing here because they specify that you must create the NBI on "the latest Mac OS X system you have." Do I create the NBI on a Mac client and then move it to the Xserve, or create it on the Xserve even though it's not the newest OS X device we own?
I'm trying to move from NetRestore to DeployStudio for my dual-boot Apple deployments, but I'm not sure how to remove NetRestore from my NetBoot server. When I NetBoot a client, it still launches NetRestore automatically and does not launch DeployStudio. I believe I have DeployStudio installed correctly on the server and my repository is mountable from clients.