November, 2013

The yearly Microsoft MVP Global Summit will lift its curtain on Nov 17th in Bellevue, WA.  This year, we have prepared three new apps and many new samples in response to MVPs’ feedbacks last year.  If you are attending this year’s Microsoft MVP Global Summit, you will have the privilege to kiss or bite their development team  

• Sample Browser Windows Phone app – with 6000+ MSDN code samples which will be at your fingertips anytime and anywhere.
• Script Explorer for PowerShell ISE – with 8000+ script sample which will be at your fingertips when you are writing scripts in PowerShell ISE.
• PowerShell checkin policy for TFS – automatically checks your PowerShell script code against best practices of PowerShell.

Interested?  Please open your Schedule Builder for the MVP Summit 2013, and register for the event called “OneCode & OneScript” on Nov 17th.  We look forward to seeing you and learning your feedback.

Script Download: ForceAutomaticRestarts(PowerShell).zip
http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/How-to-force-automatic-195fbe07

This script can help to force automatic restarts to finish installing important updates.

Whenever after updates, the server does not reboot immediately. However if we remote into the server we will receive a notice that you have to restart the computer in three days. If the restart does not occur in three days, the computer displays a 15-minute countdown and then automatically restarts. By default, this automatic restart is delayed if the computer is locked, and the countdown will begin the next time that you sign in to the computer.

This script can help to force automatic restarts to finish installing important updates.

You can find more All-In-One Script Framework script samples at http://aka.ms/onescriptingallery

Script Download: ListLibrary_ExportImport.zip
http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Copy-Files-with-version-f2af7001

This script can copy a List / Library from one web to another web while maintaining versions and metadata.

In a real world, a lot of people ask copying just one List / Library from one web to another web while retaining versions, security info and metadata; this script would help to facilitate that.

You can find more All-In-One Script Framework script samples at http://aka.ms/onescriptingallery

Script Download: ForceAutomaticRestarts(VBScript).zip
http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/How-to-force-automatic-c5cb6a06/

This VBScript can help to force automatic restarts to finish installing important updates.

Whenever after updates, the server does not reboot immediately. However if we remote into the server we will receive a notice that you have to restart the computer in three days. If the restart does not occur in three days, the computer displays a 15-minute countdown and then automatically restarts. By default, this automatic restart is delayed if the computer is locked, and the countdown will begin the next time that you sign in to the computer.

This script can help to force automatic restarts to finish installing important updates. 

You can find more All-In-One Script Framework script samples at http://aka.ms/onescriptingallery

Script Download: Wait.zip
http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Check-instantaneous-and-3a2ed244

This script will check wait types and related information. It waits for a minute and then collects historical and instantaneous wait on the server. You can run this script and troubleshoot based on the results.

You can use this script for troubleshooting when you want to check wait in SQL Server. 

You can find more All-In-One Script Framework script samples at http://aka.ms/onescriptingallery

Script Download: 21766.zip
http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Checking-For-Protected-ddfaddbf

This script demo shows how to get protected ACL from a specified base scope.

Exchange Server setup grants permissions to various groups at various places in the domain and configuration contexts of Active Directory. Since Exchange relies on these permissions in order for everything to work properly, from time to time we see cases where something is not working, and we eventually track it down to the fact that an object has been set to NOT inherit permissions from its parent. This is called a protected ACL, because it is protected from inheriting permissions from the parent. 

You can find more All-In-One Script Framework script samples at http://aka.ms/onescriptingallery