Category Archives: scripts

Find When a User Was Added or Removed to a Domain Group Using PowerShell and Repadmin

Posted on May 21, 2013 by Boe Prox

Using an external program to accomplish a goal is nothing new. In this particular case, I am using repadmin.exe with my current PowerShell session to figure out when a particular user was added into a domain group. To make all … Continue reading →

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List All Files Regardless of 260 Character Path Restriction Using PowerShell and Robocopy

Posted on April 1, 2013 by Boe Prox

A common pain had by many System Administrators is when you are trying to recursively list all files and folders in a given path or even retrieve the total size of a folder. After waiting for a while in hopes … Continue reading →

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Use PowerShell To Calculate the Hash of a File

Posted on March 25, 2013 by Boe Prox

I’m pretty sure that everyone has something similar to a hash calculator that has been written in PowerShell or some other language and I am no different. This is my take on a simple file hash calculator to determine the … Continue reading →

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Get Available Constructors Using PowerShell

Posted on March 14, 2013 by Boe Prox

Working with PowerShell sometimes (or a lot of the time) involves using .Net types to create objects that can be used for more in depth scripting of various items. It is one thing to know the type that you need … Continue reading →

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Fun with PowerShell and Permutations

Posted on February 21, 2013 by Boe Prox

Somewhere a while back I was reading about working with trying to find all possible combinations of a given word, called Permutations. Since my main goal was to take a given word (or string) and cycle through all of the … Continue reading →

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