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Coupla Things – PowerShell and MD5 sums for MS’s MOSS 2007 VPC files
1) PowerShell If you are involved in Systems Maintenance and the systems are Windows-based (pref. OS: Windows Server 2003+), you owe it to yourself to check out Microsoft Windows PowerShell. This is a .NET 2.0 shell, yes, but architected from the ground up to enable automation, and it enables all sorts of WMI-interfaces and reflection…
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What is wrong with you Microsoft Only people? – Checksum utilities for verifying large files
So today I am downloading the 2007 Office Beta 2 installs (and whoever heard of paying $1.50 for 5 download tries? I sort of understand, but if it were really just covering bandwidth fees, I should think it would be a lot lower). I note that the download listings/product key e-mails do not come with…
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Robocopy
Copying large files or large collections of files across a balky network or VPN connection? Robocopy is your friend.
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Product Testimony – Acronis TrueImage 9.x
I don’t do Product plugs/testimonies for kickback, but only because/when products seem to truly deserve accolades. Anyway, the version of Acronis TrueImage that I own is the Home version, but based on that, I’d definitely consider it for enterprise use too. TrueImage is a disk imaging tool, and item-by-item recovery tool as well. You can…