My recent posts about the NTFSsecurity module drew a comment that the cmdlets in the module couldn’t be used because they’re not installed on every server. This raises the question – to install or not. Windows systems have a huge array of PowerShell cmdlets available: – those from the PowerShell team that form the “core” […]
Start-Sleep change in PowerShell v6.2 preview 4 Start-Sleep has had this syntax Start-Sleep [-Seconds] <int> [<CommonParameters>] Start-Sleep -Milliseconds <int> [<CommonParameters>] since it was first introduced in PowerShell v1 (I think). You can define the period as a number of seconds or use the –Milliseconds option if you need a fraction of a second. […]
Get-NTFSAcess and Get-NTFSEffectiveAccess are two cmdlets from the NTFSsecurity module. Get-NTFSAcess retrieves the access rights on a folder or file. You can immediately who has what rights and from where the rights are inherited. Get-NTFSEffectiveAccess by contrast shows the rights YOU (the account you’re using to access the data) have to a file […]
The Get-DiskSpace cmdlet from the NTFSsecurity module is useful in that it gives ready calculated percentages of free and used space: AvailableFreeSpacePercent : 56.73% AvailableFreeSpaceUnitSize : 270.11 GB ClusterSize : 4096 DriveName : \\?\Volume{c1c4c5bb-0000-0000-0000-f01500000000}\ TotalSizeUnitSize : 476.1 GB UsedSpacePercent : 43.27% UsedSpaceUnitSize : 206 GB FreeBytesAvailable : 290024239104 TotalNumberOfBytes : 511210610688 TotalNumberOfFreeBytes : 290024239104 BytesPerSector […]
My PowerShell Admin Modules that used to be available through codeplex are now available on github – https://github.com/RichardSiddaway/PowerShell-Admin-Modules I haven’t updated them since their original publication but they’re still valid Enjoy
Long file paths – greater than 260 characters – have been a pain to deal with in Windows. There is an argument that you should avoid file paths of that length but sometimes you don’t have any choice – when you inherit a file structure for instance. The following cmdlets from the NTFSsecurity […]
PowerShell v6.2.0 preview 4 is now available from https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases After installation over the top of preview 3 I found that the PowerShell console would open and then immediately close when I tried to use it. This is a known issue with a fix in the pipeline as far as I’m aware. The workaround is to […]
Just came across the NTFSsecurity module. Its available on the PowerShell gallery or from https://github.com/raandree/NTFSSecurity. The *-Acl cmdlets have been around since Windows PowerShell v1 but aren’t easy to use and don’t cover all our needs. This module contains a number of cmdlets: Add-NTFSAccess Add-NTFSAudit Clear-NTFSAccess Clear-NTFSAudit Copy-Item2 Disable-NTFSAccessInheritance Disable-NTFSAuditInheritance Disable-Privileges Enable-NTFSAccessInheritance Enable-NTFSAuditInheritance Enable-Privileges […]
PowerShell v6.1.2 was recently released – https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases There doesn’t seem to be any new functionality or breaking changes. Most of the changes seem to be internal to the project. The issue with PowerShell not starting after installation over the top of an existing version seems to have been resolved. The issue with […]
The recent Windows 10 Insider builds (18305) have introduced a Windows sandbox feature. This is a new light weight desktop environment for testing software. A new sandbox is created every time you need one and EVERYTHING in the sandbox is destroyed when you close it. see https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2018/12/19/announcing-windows-10-insider-preview-build-18305/#ua844cXgClodRKz2.97 for the initial announcement. The IE fix KB4483214 seems […]