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How to Move Files with PowerShell

Thomas Maurer — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 05:48:00 +0000

PowerShell is a powerful scripting language that can help you automate various tasks on your Windows and Linux system. One of the common tasks that you may need to perform is moving files from one location to another. In this blog post, I will show you how to use PowerShell to move files with different …

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PowerShell: Download script or file from GitHub

Thomas Maurer — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 05:13:54 +0000

Since a lot of people are starting to store their scripts and files in GitHub repositories, I often get the question, how can I download a script or a file from a Git repository using PowerShell. There are a couple of ways to you can obviously do this. You could use git and do a …

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Eject ISO from Hyper-V VM using PowerShell

Thomas Maurer — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 06:05:09 +0000

This is one of these quick and dirty blog posts mostly as a note for myself. Hyper-V offers the capability to add an ISO image to a virtual CD/DVD drive and you can use Hyper-V Manager to do that, or you can also use PowerShell. Here is how you can eject or remove an ISO …

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Add ISO DVD Drive to a Hyper-V VM using PowerShell

Thomas Maurer — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 07:05:53 +0000

Hyper-V offers the capability to add an ISO image to a virtual CD/DVD drive and you can use Hyper-V Manager to do that, or you can also use PowerShell. Here is how you can add an ISO to a Hyper-V virtual machine (VM) using PowerShell. There are two ways of doing it if you already …

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Recover Files on Windows using the Windows File Recovery Tool

Thomas Maurer — Sun, 28 Jun 2020 11:17:32 +0000

Did you accidentally delete an important file, wiping a hard drive or partition, or need to restore corrupted files and data? We all have been there, with the newly released Microsoft Windows File Recovery tool you can recover and restore files on Windows. In this blog post, I am going to show you how you …

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Veeam FastSCP for Microsoft Azure

Thomas Maurer — Thu, 20 Aug 2015 14:12:22 +0000

Veeam does some great products for your virtualization and datacenter environment such as their Veeam Backup & Replication suite, Veeam Endpoint Backup FREE and Management Packs for System Center Operations Manager. Now a couple of weeks ago Veeam released a cool free tool call Veeam FastSCP fro Microsoft Azure. With Veeam FastSCP (Secure Copy Protocol) for …

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PowerShell: Sort and Move Files by Date to month and year

Thomas Maurer — Wed, 04 Mar 2015 16:27:35 +0000

This quick blog post, shows, how you can sort and move files to folder sorted by date (year and month) with PowerShell. I had to sort a lot of files and put them into folders for each month and year. So for example when the files was created/modified in February 2012, the file had to …

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PowerShell: Copy files and additional files with different name

Thomas Maurer — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 12:41:24 +0000

This maybe helps some people which need to copy multiple files. In my example I search for Contoso in files called info_*****.txt I need to copy them and also copy the file data_*****.txt. In this blog post, I am going to show you how you can use PowerShell to copy files and additional files with …

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Powershell: How to rename all files in a folder

Thomas Maurer — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 06:01:02 +0000

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 extension from .JPEG to .jpg: $files = Get-Content foreach ($file in $files) { $newFileName=$file.name.replace(".JPEG",".jpg") Rename-Item …

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