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If you have used the Deployment Imaging Servicing Management (DISM) cmdlets in Windows 8 (Server or Client), you would have quickly realized that the functionality is limited only to certain basic tasks around image servicing and tasks such as capturing...
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One of the questions on tonight’s Live Meeting concerned the compatibility between remoting on PowerShell v2 and PowerShell v3 CTP 2 The difference is that v3 uses a WSMAN 3.0 stack but v2 uses 2.0 I used two machines: Windows 2008 R2 SP 1 with PowerShell...
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I love how easy it is to manage computers with Windows PowerShell. It is a great reporting tool, but often I find people getting locked into one approach. I’m a big believer in flexibility and re-use and using objects in … Continue reading...
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New Petri Author I trust many of you are familiar with the Petri web site. This has long been a very valuable site for IT Pros. You can always find a wealth of reliable and practical information. Starting in December, … Continue reading →...
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Using the Problem Steps Recorder in Windows 7 http://bit.ly/obasPi #SMBIT Problem Steps Recorder for Windows 7 Troubleshooting Problem Steps Recorder for Windows 7 Troubleshooting. SEP 27. By Jeffery Hicks 17 days ago under Help Desk Management. Tweet...
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As promised here is the function to delete mail items in a specific folder function remove-mailitem { [ CmdletBinding ( SupportsShouldProcess = $true ) ] param ( [ parameter ( Mandatory = $true ) ] [string] $mailfolder , [datetime] $start , [datetime...
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Continuing our perambulation around Outlook when used with multiple hotmail accounts its time to look at the other folders and the mail items they contain. This post will show how to view the mail items and a future post will show how to delete items...
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Getting back to looking at working with Outlook we can adapt the function used to deleted the contents of the Deleted Items folder to work with the Junk mail folders function clear-junkmail { $outlook = New-Object -ComObject Outlook.Application get-mailitemcount...
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I started this series http://msmvps.com/blogs/richardsiddaway/archive/2011/07/30/outlook-connector-amp-mail-folder-item-count.aspx by looking at how we could enumerate the mail folders in Outlook 2010 when I had had four hotmail accounts open. The...
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The original version of this function only did one pass at deleting and had to iterate through all of the folders to find the Deleted Items folder. This time we use the collection of folders we created using the get-mailfolders function to go directly...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...