Mar
21
2017
I was astonished to see PowerShell would display nothing when it should count 0 or 1. Here’s a screenshot retrieving the number of AD accounts. Instead use the Measure cmdLet and select the count value: C:\>(Get-ADUser -filter {SamAccountName -like “dron*”} | select SamAccountName | measure).count 1 Another useful command: The […]
Tags: Powershell
Mar
09
2017
You’re in charge of a Remote Desktop Services (RDS) server but unfortunately, C: drive starts running out of space, RDS profiles being on that same volume. Lucky enough, a huge amount of space remains on D: drive, but how shall I migrate? You can run a GPO that creates new profiles in D: like […]
Tags: GPO, RDS, Remote Desktop, Windows
Oct
06
2016
Olivier, a friend of mine, had to parse a CSV file and took the opportunity to benchmark the performance of 3 programming languages. The file contains server names and disks he needs to add up into a hash table in order to get the total disk space for each server. He assumes on his […]
Tags: bash, linux, performance, perl, shell