December 2008 – Fish Eagle Limited

PowerShell GPMC scripts

The other day I had a need to configure scheduled backups of GPOs to file on a Windows Server 2008 Domain Controller. Aha (I thought), I’ve done this before using the BackupAllGPOs.wsf script that is included along with a whole bunch of other handy scripts when you install the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC). … Read More »

PowerShell ate my C: Drive

Or at least it nearly did. I was working a script and because of a small typo very nearly lost most of the data on my C: drive. It’s very easy to get wrong, so treat this as a cautionary tale. The example below shows the error I made and the potential impact. I’ve used… Read More »