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January 31, 2009Jan 31, 200901/31/09How Do I Compress Files?
Hey, Scripting Guy! After some time without needing help, I’ve run into a problem about which I have been unable to discover any information. Perhaps you can aid me. Assume you have (1) a single file,
January 29, 2009Jan 29, 200901/29/09Hey, Scripting Guy! I live and I die by my Office Outlook calendar. But Office Outlook sometimes seems to be rather slow when I am logging on first thing in the morning. When I have to boot up my laptop, log on to the network,
January 28, 2009Jan 28, 200901/28/09Hey, Scripting Guy! My users seem to think that once they delete an e-mail message, it is gone. Most do not have the concept of going and emptying their Deleted Items folder. Using Windows PowerShell on Exchange, I can easily obtain a report from the server about how much space this stuff is taking up.
January 27, 2009Jan 27, 200901/27/09Hey, Scripting Guy! The Pointy Headed Boss (PHB) just got back from some kind of stupid management summit, and he has decided he needs to track our work activities more closely. As a result, we now have to give him a weekly progress report.
January 26, 2009Jan 26, 200901/26/09Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to find out how many e-mail messages are in my Junk folder. I found a script that does this with VBScript, but I need to be able to do it in Windows PowerShell. I do not want to delete the junk e-mail,
January 24, 2009Jan 24, 200901/24/09How Can I Return File Names of Files Created in Less Than an Hour from the Current Time?
Hey, Scripting Guy! I am attempting to write a script that looks at the creation dates of all files in a certain directory.
January 22, 2009Jan 22, 200901/22/09Hey, Scripting Guy! I need some help. There is a stupid process that launches every time I turn on my computer. I cannot find where it is starting from. I have looked in all the usual places, but I can’t find it.
January 21, 2009Jan 21, 200901/21/09Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a problem. I am trying to script the backup of a data folder used by our database application. The problem is that as long as the database service is running, the files that are used are locked,
January 20, 2009Jan 20, 200901/20/09Hey, Scripting Guy! We have this application that is supposed to run all the time. It is constantly giving us headaches and crashing. The applications vendor evidently expects it to crash all the time and has a thread that will restart it three times.
January 19, 2009Jan 19, 200901/19/09Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to be notified when a process begins. I would like to use Windows PowerShell to do this, but it does not seem to work. While I could do this in VBScript, I prefer to use Windows PowerShell.
