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My Name is Thomas Maurer. Work as a System Engineer in Allschwil for a national provider.
Category Archives: Microsoft
Powershell: How to rename all files in a folder
Sometimes you need a fast way to rename a lot of file. With Powershell this is pretty easy. You list all files in the directory and you can use this object with a foreach loop. This script basically changes the … Continue reading
Posted in IT, Microsoft, Powershell, Software, Work
Tagged change, change extentions, extention, extentions, file, files, foreach, get-content, Microsoft, PowerShell, rename, rename files, rename-item, renaming, Windows, Windows Powershell
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How to create a Powershell v2 Module
If you need some functions a lot in different scripts you create maybe external function files. This is a good way to clean up your code. To get this functions running in your mainscript.ps1 you can call this other file … Continue reading
Posted in IT, Microsoft, Powershell, Software, Windows Server, Work
Tagged dotsourced, Import-Module, Microsoft, Module, Modules, PowerShell, Powershell Module, Scripts, Windows, Windows Powershell
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Still love my iPad
I still love my iPad. Now I really start to work with it. It keeps my life simple and easy. First I start with a daily briefing with my todos (Things) and events for today. I also read a lot of … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, Fun, Hardware, Home, IT, Microsoft, Powershell, Software, Web, Windows Server, Work, iPad, iPhone
Tagged Apple, Apple iPad, Apple iPhone, Dreambox, Evernote, Evernote for iPad, Google Reader, iPad, iPad RDP, iPad Remote, iPhone, iPowershell, iTap, iTap RDP, iTap RDP for iPad, iTunes, Microsoft, Newsrack, Newsrack for iPad, Notebook, PowerShell, RDP, remote, Things, Things for iPad
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Updated my iMac to 8GB RAM
I just updated the memory of my early 2009 iMac to 8GB. Now I can see a nice performance boost by using my Windows 7 VM for work.
Docs.com
I think this is not really new but it looks like a lot of people don’t know about the new service of Microsoft called Docs.com. Docs.com is a kind of a online Office Suite connected to Facebook. You can simple … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Hosting, IT, Microsoft, Office, Web
Tagged .doc, .ppt, .xls, Docs, docs.com, Document, Documents, Facebook, Google, Google Docs, Microsoft, Microsoft docs.com, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Online Office, Office, Online Office, share
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Powershell: Changing registry key value
After posting Pagefile size bigger than 4095MB on Windows Server 2003 I had the Idea to change this registry values with powershell. First start powershell You can get all PS Drives with the command Get-PSDrive Now you see the drive … Continue reading
Posted in IT, Microsoft, Powershell, Software, Windows, Windows Server, Windows Server 2003, Work
Tagged Changing, get-psdrive, HKLM, key value, Memory, Microsoft, Microsoft Powershell, PowerShell, registry, registry key value, Set-ItemProperty, Set-Location, Values, Windows, Windows Registry
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