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Use Robocopy to migrate folder and files including permissions and datestamps
There are two (lengthy) Robocopy commands to use in order to migrate a folder and its contents to a new location (for a file server migration for example) whilst retaining the ACL permissions and datestamps on both files ad folders. You can do an initial 'seed' of the...
Identify Hyper-V guest config file ID and location
On a Hyper-V host with multiple guests running you may - for whatever reason - want to work out which files belong to which guest. The config files are not arranged or named logically, they are simply long ID strings. Using PowerShell you can quickly identify where...
Export list of enabled users or group members of AD using PowerShell
A couple of handy PowerShell commands for exporting info from your AD: All enabled users Get-ADUser -Filter 'Enabled -eq $true' -Properties DisplayName, SamAccountName | Select-Object Name, DisplayName, SamAccountName | Export-Csv -Path "C:\temp\ActiveUsers.csv"...
Reduce size of large WinSxS folder
A (Windows 2016) server with a perfectly reasonable 200GB Windows partition was reporting as low on free disk space. Investigation showed that the \Windows\WinSxS folder contained over 80GB of data... Laughably, Microsoft claim that the WinSxS folder is reduced in...
Remote Desktop Services user logged on with temporary profile
A user logging on to a Remote Desktop Services (RDS) server was shown a dialogue soon after logon indicating that they are using a temporary profile and any changes would be lost when logging out. A temporary profile can be created when Windows cannot load the user's...
FullTrustNotifier.exe – System Error – VCRUNTIME140.dll and MSVCP140.dll not found
A Windows 11 machine randomly started popping up with system error dialogue boxes shortly after reboots and during use. The faulting executable was 'FullTrustNotifier.exe' and two or three dialogue boxes had to be acknowledged before the issue went away (for a few...
Veeam B&R – “Some backup console’s plug-ins must be updated to the latest version” on every launch
A recently updated Veeam B&R console install then produced a rather annoying pop-up every time it was launched. Clicking Yes in the dialogue allowed the program to run, but seemingly did nothing as it reappeared next time. This appears to have been happening to...
Add custom auto-archive (to in-place mailbox) policy in Microsoft 365
The default auto-archive policy for Exchange Online mailboxes moves messages older than 2 years to the in-place archive mailbox. If you want to adjust the timing, you can login to the Microsoft Purview portal and create your own retention tag and policy and apply it...
Query user contact information in Microsoft 365
A tenant in Microsoft 365 was utilising the contact information fields for users to populate auto-signatures and also generate the Org Explorer view in Outlook. Needing to query this information, and a simple CSV output would suffice for starters, proved to be more...