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June 8, 2012  7:53 AM

Cleaning up the temp folder



Posted by: Richard Siddaway
File System, PowerShell 3

 

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March 21, 2012  3:14 PM

Folder sizes



Posted by: Richard Siddaway
File System

Question on the forums related to folder sizes and last write time

Get-ChildItem -Path "C:\PersonalData\MyBooks\PowerShell and WMI" 
				
				
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February 18, 2012  2:05 PM

Count of files in a folder



Posted by: Richard Siddaway
File System, PowerShell

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February 11, 2012  5:53 AM

Changing folder creation date



Posted by: Richard Siddaway
File System, PowerShell

A question on the forum asked about setting creation date on folders after they have been copied to match the source folder.

I created a source folder with three folders and modified the creation dates

Set-ItemProperty -Path c:\testsource\folder1 -Name CreationTime -Value...


September 12, 2010  5:52 AM

Deleting files older than a certain date



Posted by: Richard Siddaway
File System, PowerShell v2

A question on the ITKE forums asked how files older than a certain date (in this case two months) could be deleted without touching younger files.

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August 8, 2010  12:51 PM

How big’s my dit



Posted by: Richard Siddaway
Active Directory, File System, PowerShell v2, WMI

The ntds.dit file is used to store Active Directory data on a domain controller. Knowing how big this file is getting is a useful piece if information. One way is to log on to each domain controller and test the size using Windows explorer. A better way is to use WMI PS> "server02", "dc02"...


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