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 …
Manually renewing a Let’s Encrypt (LE) Certificate on a Synology NAS
When your Synology won’t (or more likely can’t because you blocked port 80 after getting the first time) automatically renew its Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate you can manually trigger the …
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 …
Convert Bytes to Megabytes and Gigabytes
Bytes to Megabytes 1.0*[Bytes Value]/(1024*1048576) Megabytes to Gigabytes 1.0*[Megabytes Value]/1024
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.
SharePoint 2013 Make the document icon in a document library work
We have a customer who is using Colligo Engage for Outlook, uploading emails to SharePoint Online and tagging them with some additional metadata for other departments to keep track of …
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 …
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 …