There are many ways to determine when Windows was installed. Here are some of them. Continue reading ‘How to Determine the Windows Installation Date with and without PowerShell’
Monthly Archive for September, 2009
Bugs and Annoyances
ICA connections initiated over the ICA client object (ICO) SDK fail because 128-bit encryption cannot be enabled. Apparently, setting EncryptionLevelSession does not work. Annoyingly, this bug is more than a year old, was fixed in the ICA client 10.2 and reappeared in the current version 11.0. Bugs like this one are bad for the entire Citrix ecosystem, because they break cool tools like Citrix Quick Launch, xConnect and others I may not even know about. [Update 2009-09-30: this bug has been fixed in ICA client 11.2.]
Windows 7’s version of Robocopy does not copy EFS-encrypted files to an unencrypted location on another computer. Even Explorer can do that. Vista’s version of Robocopy was not so narrow-minded. Continue reading ‘New Articles, Tools, Tips and Tricks: Bugs, Annoyances, PowerShell and some other Stuff’
What is the best way to learn PowerShell? Never use cmd.exe again!
With PowerShell 2.0 on my Windows 7 machine I decided it finally is time to polish my rusty knowledge of the language dating back to the days when PowerShell was still called Monad. In my attempt to re-familiarize myself with PoSh I consciously use it for tasks that would take me mere seconds with other tools like cmd.exe, or even old friends like Perl. But, hey, learning takes time, and there is nothing better than practice! Here are a couple of things I have learned en route. Continue reading ‘Useful PowerShell Scriptlets for Files and Folders’
With virtualization, lying has become respectable. Processors lie to user mode processes about memory addresses. Computers lie to operating systems about installed hardware. Storage systems lie to everybody about the location of data. The virtualization hype transforms honest down-to-earth systems into lying medusas. Continue reading ‘Virtualization? Nothing But Lies!’
