Remotely expanding partitions after expanding them in the hypervisor
Once you have expanded an underlying disk in a virtual machine, you still need to expand the disk in the guest. If, like me, you see logging on to a …
Test if a SQL table exists with PowerShell
Use Case Occasionally when managing large numbers of SQL Instances and thousands of databases, you have to do some checks prior to running a query against them. One of the …
Bulk expanding disks after increasing their physical size
About This script deals with expanding the logical volumes in windows after they have been expanded in the hypervisor. It will work on any windows server which you have remote …
Using Chocolatey to install software on Windows
Quick post on getting started with Chocolatey.
PowerShell crashes when using start-job in a loop
In one of my scripts I needed to implement a kind of watch dog for part of the script which had a tendency to barf and get stuck. I settled …
Hide SharePoint calculated columns from display form with PowerShell
While creating a column which hyperlinked through to another list I’d created a few calculated columns which were showing up in the display form of items. You can’t hide calculated …
Create a SharePoint group with permissions and add an AD group to it
Requirement Create a SharePoint group in a site collection Assign that group an existing permission for Site Permissions list Add an Active Directory group to that SharePoint group Read the …