April 21, 2009 – flaphead.com

Clone NTFS Permissions

April 21, 2009 by ucinfo, posted in Exchange, Flaphead, MsExchange, Powershell

I have done this before when moving log file locations in Exchange and it’s well cool and make life very easy!

Source: http://powershell.com/cs/blogs/tips/archive/2009/03/24/clone-ntfs-permissions.aspx

NTFS access permissions can be complex and tricky. To quickly assign NTFS permissions to a new folder, you can simply clone permissions from another folder that you know has the correct permissions applied.

md $homesample
# manually assign correct permissions to folder “sample”
$sddl = (Get-Acl $homesample).Sddl
md $homenewfolder
$sd = Get-Acl $homenewfolder
$sd.SetSecurityDescriptorSddlForm($sddl)
$sd.Sddl
Set-Acl $homenewfolder $sd

Unfortunately, setting ACLs this way always requires administrator privileges.

Use PowerShell To Auto-Update Your Sysinternals

April 21, 2009 by ucinfo, posted in Flaphead, Powershell, Tools

how cool is this!

http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/Joe/archive/2009/04/17/use-powershell-to-auto-update-your-sysinternals.aspx

Google News Timeline

April 21, 2009 by ucinfo, posted in Flaphead

this is funky.

Source: http://www.googlelabs.com/show_details?app_key=agtnbGFiczIwLXd3d3ITCxIMTGFic0FwcE1vZGVsGLIxDA

Google News Timeline is a web application that organizes information chronologically. It allows users to view news and other data sources on a zoomable, graphical timeline. You can navigate through time by dragging the timeline, setting the “granularity” to weeks, months, years, or decades, or just including a time period in your query (ie. “1977”).

Available data sources include recent and historical news, scanned newspapers and magazines, blog posts and Twitter status messages, sports scores and various types of media like music albums and movies.

Check it out: http://newstimeline.googlelabs.com/