July 2011 - Richard Siddaway's Blog - Powershell.com – Powershell Scripts, Tips and Resources

Outlook folders

The functions we’ve seen so far have involved iterating through the whole set of Outlook folders. That’s a lot of folders (I have 4 email accounts with lost of folders). The trick is to do this just once and then use the GetFolderFromID method at the...

Published Sun, Jul 31 2011 2:00 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell V2, Office 2010, Windows 7, Outlook

PowerShell Cheat Sheet

This may be useful for people starting PowerShell. If you can’t remember what punctuation sign does what in PowerShell get a copy of this cheat sheet http://blogs.lessthandot.com/index.php/DataMgmt/DBAdmin/a-cheat-sheet-for-all Read More...

Published Sun, Jul 31 2011 10:09 AM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell V2

Emptying the Deleted Items Folder

Continuing our look at scripting against Outlook & the hotmail connector Many of the emails I get end up being read once and deleted. This leaves a ton of stuff in the deleted items folders. Periodically I’ll clean these up. This is one way how it...

Published Sun, Jul 31 2011 7:59 AM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell V2, Office 2010, Windows 7, Outlook

Live Mesh Update

Couple of points worth noting if you are going to use Live Mesh (1) File paths longer than 269 characters (folder paths > 248) won’t sync - shorten the path to fix (2) PST files won’t sync – even if they are not in use By default Mesh...

Published Sun, Jul 31 2011 4:20 AM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: Technology, Windows 7

Outlook Connector & mail folder item count

On my home laptop I use Live Mail to aggregate my hotmail accounts. On my travelling netbook I decided to try the Outlook Connector http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook-help/microsoft-office-outlook-hotmail-connector-overview-HA010222518.aspx This...

Published Sat, Jul 30 2011 2:29 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell V2, COM, Office 2010, Windows 7

Live Mesh

One problem I’ve had for a while is how to keep my script library synchronised across a number of machines. I have a laptop I use for my development work at home and I have two netbooks – at least one of which is always with my when I’m away from...

Published Sat, Jul 30 2011 12:02 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: Technology, Windows 7

Network Adapter speed and duplex

One thing that can cause problems on the network is the duplex setting on the network adapter. If this doesn’t match the switch port then at best you will get performance issues and at worst no connectivity. The speed of the connection can be obtained...

Published Fri, Jul 29 2011 4:07 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell and WMI, Networking

The New IT ?

A recent headline asked "How will you fit into the New IT?" My answer is what new IT? I have been working in IT for well over 20 years and in that time I can't remember a period when there wasn't a significant change coming: introduction...

Published Thu, Jul 28 2011 10:52 AM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: Opinion

Kindle for PC fix?

I appear to have fixed my problem. In the hope that this may help others in similar position this is what I did: uninstall Kindle for PC clean out all folders and content including the My Kindle Content folder. Make sure the C:\Users\Richard\username...

Published Thu, Jul 28 2011 7:16 AM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: Windows 7

Kindle for PC Update

Just checked my other two machines and they are running v1.5 with NO problem. The latest version is 1.6.1 and that is the one showing a problem. After removing all of the Kindle stuff including a registry I did get it to install and register. ...

Published Wed, Jul 27 2011 4:31 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: Windows 7

Now this is odd

I have three machines running Windows 7 32 bit an HP laptop running Ultimate an HP netbook running starter edition a Dell duo running Home Premium I have installed the Kindle for PC reader on each of them. It installed and worked without any problems...

Published Wed, Jul 27 2011 8:29 AM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: Windows 7

Just a thought

I’ve working with WMI a lot recently and frequently seen things like this Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_OperatingSystem -ComputerName dc02 Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_ComputerSystem -ComputerName dc02 Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_LogicalDisk -ComputerName dc02...

Published Wed, Jul 27 2011 3:54 AM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell V2, PowerShell and WMI, Remoting

AD account Expiry date

In many organisations AD accounts for temporary works are set to expiry when their contract ends. Its also a good practice to put an expiry date on any one who is leaving – that way you know their account won’t available. Setting the expiry date...

Published Mon, Jul 25 2011 1:47 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: Windows Server 2008 R2, PowerShell and Active Directory

GPO cmdlets

One thing new I found out today – if you install the Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) on Windows 7 you can use the GPO cmdlets (GroupPolicy module) against a Windows 2003 domain controller. The cmdlets enable all GPO management tasks apart from...

Published Mon, Jul 25 2011 12:15 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell and Active Directory

PowerShell remoting–User group meeting

Final reminder for the user group meeting on Tuesday 26 July Details from: http://msmvps.com/blogs/richardsiddaway/archive/2011/07/20/july-2011-user-group-reminder.aspx Read More...

Published Sun, Jul 24 2011 1:12 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell User Group

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Outlook folders

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Emptying the Deleted Items Folder

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Outlook Connector & mail folder item count

Live Mesh

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The New IT ?

Kindle for PC fix?

Kindle for PC Update

Now this is odd

Just a thought

AD account Expiry date

GPO cmdlets

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