Information Technology

Creating Security Groups for File Shares in Bulk using PowerShell

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Security Groups are great for managing large groups for permissions.  A client requested that they needed to have Read-Only, Read-Write, and Ready-Modify (allow for deleting) for all their file shares for better management. Getting the Share Names In order for me to create the groups I needed the share names. PowerShell to the rescue! Type … Read more

Remove duplicates, blank lines, spaces, to get unique values and sort data in one operation

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From time to time I come across this need; where I need to scrub a file where there are duplicates, there are blank lines, the sort order is all wack, and it just needs to be formatted to where it can be more readable and/or usable. This method just doesn’t apply to text, but also … Read more

A chart describing CIDR subnets

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Admins need to understand some basic networking concepts like CIDR. These are needed when working with AntiSpam & Archiving providers. Here is a simple chart describing the CIDR subnets.

In networks larger than a /31, one address is used for the network number, another for the broadcast address, and generally another as the default … Read more