March 2014 – Fish Eagle Limited

Bulk query AD Replication Metadata with Powershell

I had a requirement recently to try and find out where and when a whole lot of mailboxes were hidden from the GAL. Yes, fingering some poor sucker for the blame is an immensely satisfying task, isn’t it? I’ve found that an effective way to do this is to query the AD replication metadata for… Read More »

Powershell function to count files using Robocopy

Reading the post title you maybe wondering whether I’ve taken leave of my senses. Why call Robocopy from Powershell to count files when Powershell has a perfectly good method of doing this natively? For example, (Get-ChildItem e:\powershell -Recurse -force | ?{! $_.PSIsContainer} | Measure-Object).count Well, the problem comes in when an individual file length exceeds 260… Read More »