Tag Archives: FileSystem

Get Top Level Folder Usage

Posted on July 4, 2011 by Jeffery Hicks

This is too long to tweet, even written as a one liner. But this will search a folder for top level subfolders and return the file usage for each. $folder="S:\" dir $folder | where {$_.psIscontainer} | foreach { $stat= dir … Continue reading →

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Friday the 13 Script Blocks

Posted on August 13, 2010 by Jeffery Hicks

In celebration of Friday the 13th and to help ward off any triskaidekaphobia I thought I’d offer up 13 PowerShell scriptblocks. These are scriptblocks that might solve a legitimate business need like finding how long a server has been running … Continue reading →

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Objects are the answer

Posted on July 1, 2010 by Jeffery Hicks

As I usually do, I was helping out in the forums at ScriptingAnswers.com. A member had several variables that he wanted to show as a group. As is almost always the case, the answer in PowerShell is object. I talk … Continue reading →

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New File Shortcut

Posted on March 18, 2010 by Jeffery Hicks

I’ve been looking at the File Server Resource Manager (FSRM) feature in Windows Server 2008 R2 a lot lately. One very nice part of FSRM is the ability to schedule typical file management tasks. One of the examples from the … Continue reading →

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Get Disk Quota

Posted on November 23, 2009 by Jeffery Hicks

During a recent class I was teaching, a student asked about a way to get disk quota reports from Windows file servers.  I knew there was a WMI class, Win32_DiskQuota, and had some old VBScript files. However, they were pretty … Continue reading →

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