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PowerShell: Count Files in Folder and write to file
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27 Jul 2011For my own backlog: $subfolders = Get-childitem <path to folder> -recurse | where {$_.psIsContainer} foreach ($subfolder in $subfolders) { $filecount = (dir $subfolder.fullname | where {$_.GetType() -match "fileInfo"}).count if ($filecount -ne $null) { write-output "$($subfolder.fullname) `t$($filecount)" | Out-File $resultfile -append } }
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I just noticed something. We have a mailbox which we use with multiple people. But this mailbox is also used for sending out mail from software and servers (via SMTP authentication). In order to use the mailing from software, we had to give the mailbox permissions to send out mail (send as or send on [...]
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- Tags: BPOS
AWS: elasticfox-ec2tag
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15 Jun 2011Since the firefox plugin for Amazon Web Services isn’t working anymore inside firefox 4, I’ve been looking for an replacement. And. I found one (else I did not have anything to say). It is a stand alone tool and an improved version of elasticfox named elasticfox-ec2tag. You can download it here.
SSRS: regional settings
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1 Jun 2011When you have a website which display’s a SQL Server Reporting (SSRS) Report, you might run into the problem that your date fields are in the format of: MM-DD-YYYY, but you want it to be DD-MM-YYYY (for me that is the dutch setting). You can change this by changing the locale setting of APS in [...]
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IIS7 SMTP server logging
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20 Apr 2011I was wondering why my IIS7 SMTP server didn’t create any log files. According to my settings it should create log files @ C:\Windows\System32\LogFiles It seems that for this to function correctly you have to install the role service “ODBC Logging”. Here is how to do this: Open Server Manager Navigate to the webserver Role [...]
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SQL: maintenance plan delete after server rename
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12 Apr 2011In a previous post I spoke about changing your database server name. If you created a maintenance plan, you might notice that the plan will fail. This is because the connection of your maintenance plan could be changed. You can delete the maintenance plan by executing the following T-SQL (just change the Maintenance plan name: [...]
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- Tags: SQL Server
Amazon EC2: EBS v.s. Instance Store
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25 Mar 2011As we are having some problems running SQL databases on Amazon EC2, I decided to run some performance tests. First of all my setup: Large Instance (EBS booted), Windows 2003 Server x64 My test tool: ATTO Disk Benchmark Tool Note: This might not be the best disk performance test tool, but I did not know [...]
Advanced Malware Cleaning
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9 Mar 2011If you ever have to clean malware from systems of i.e. you family, you should really follow this session. It’s a session by Mark Russinovich, cofounder of the awesome sysinternals tools. This session will give you information on how to identify malware infestations and clean them of your systems. Link to video
One little drawback of BPOS is the fact that User Passwords do have an expiration policy. Don’t get me wrong, from a security perspective this is a good thing. Only it could be that some users do not have a real life user associated with them. For example the user in my previous post. When [...]
BPOS: configure SMTP relay
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2 Feb 2011If you want your servers or your software to mail and you are on hosted exchange (BPOS), you have to do some extra work to get it to work. Prerequisites: An IIS Server with the SMTP Feature A BPOS account (this will be used to authenticate against Exchange Online and to send the email) As [...]
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- Tags: BPOS, IIS