• Powershell and writing files (how fast can you write to a file? )

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by Guillaume Bordier}
    Hi there, I’ve been working for some time on a tool similar to PAL from mike lagase in order to automate the analysis of loadgen runs. While doing this I had to write large files with PowerShell and was not impressed with the result. I thought I’d share...

  • Create a CAB file for Windows Mobile from a certificate chain with Powershell

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by Guillaume Bordier}
    At his blog Scott Yost treated us with a very cool powershell script to create xml files reqiured to build a .cab and install root certificates on windows mobile. Since a customer just asked me for it, I thought I'll finish his script to allow several...

  • Exchange Server 2007 rollups nightmares - automate the .config file modification

    Posted over 6 years ago
    by Guillaume Bordier}
    Most of you Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 admins or Loadgen users as have been confronted with the problem described here : (Exchange 2007 managed code services do not start after you install an update rollup for Exchange 2007). Those who read the...

  • Where did my disk space go ? [very long directory names, system directories, symbolink and other hard links ...], meet xdir.exe

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by Guillaume Bordier}
    [EDIT : posted a statically linked version to remove dependency over VCRT 9.0] Hi geeks, The first thing I do when I receive a new Microsoft-issued laptop is : buy the largest hard disk I can find to replace the one that shipped with it. But...

  • PublisherEvidence strikes again : create .config files everywhere !

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by Guillaume Bordier}
    My previous post about Exchange 2007 SP1 RU5 at () explained why Exchange Services where so slow to start after RU5 was applied : .Net code checks for the Microsoft Certificate Revocation List at each startup. As explained in http://support.microsoft...