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PowerShell script to check my backup by comparing file hashes

This sample PowerShell script compares the files in two different paths by calculating and comparing hashes for each file. I use it to compare my backup to the source data, after the backup is...

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OneDrive Files Restore – User Guide

This guide is intended to help you use the new OneDrive Files Restore feature. 1. What is Files Restore? Files Restore allows OneDrive users to restore their files and folders to a previous point in...

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Open sourcing SuperDir, a file manager for CP/M written in the 1980s

Microsoft has open sourced the 1990s File Manager for Windows 3.0 this week. You can check it out at https://github.com/Microsoft/winfile/ So I went even further and open sourced my 1980s File Manager...

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Links about OneDrive Ransomware Detection and OneDrive Files Restore

Announcements Office Blogs: Defend yourself from cybercrime with new Office 365 capabilities By Kirk Koenigsbauer, Corporate Vice President for Office, Microsoft...

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Path to the Server (An Ode to SMB Multichannel)

Read while listening to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXQUu5Dti4g    Path to the Server On Ode to SMB Multichannel by Jose Barreto   There’s a client somewhere looking for file shares And it’s...

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My top tweets from 2017

These are my top tweets from each month in 2017, according to https://analytics.twitter.com. January 2017  Top Tweet (earned 4,849 impressions) Free Azure training via Microsoft on Open edX. These are...

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Using PowerShell to generate a large test CSV file with random data

I recently posted a new blog that shows how to load a very large CSV file into Excel, breaking the limit of 1 million rows in a single Excel sheet. If you haven’t seen it, you should check it out:...

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Loading CSV/text files with more than a million rows into Excel

1. The Problem If you usually load a very large CSV (comma-separated values) file or text file into Excel, you might run into the dreaded “File not loaded completely” message: As the message explains,...

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My top tweets from 2016

These are my top tweets from each month in 2016, according to https://analytics.twitter.com.   January 2016   New blog post: My Top Reasons to Use OneDrive...

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Interesting OOF messages

It’s that time of the year when everyone is taking time off and some of us will leave out-of-office messages. The typical boring OOF (shouldn’t they be called OOO or OoOf?) should tell when you’re...

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PowerShell script organizes pictures in your OneDrive camera roll folder

I just published a new PowerShell script that organizes pictures in your OneDrive camera roll folder. It creates folders named after the year and month, then moves picture files to them. Existing files...

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SNIA’s SDC 2016: Public slides and live streaming for Storage Developer...

SNIA’s Storage Developer Conference (SDC 2016) is happening this week in Santa Clara, CA. This developer-focused conference cover several storage topics like Cloud, File Systems, NVM, Storage...

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Visuality Systems and Microsoft expand SMB collaboration to storage systems

Last week, Microsoft and Visuality Systems announced an expanded collaboration on SMB. Visuality is well known for their work supporting the SMB protocol in embedded devices. If you own a printer or...

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Build 2016 videos related to OneDrive

Here is an unofficial list of Build 2016 videos that are related to OneDrive: Session Title: OneDrive API – Overview, What’s New, and Scenarios Presenter: Sean Maloney Description: Overview of the...

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Splitting logs with PowerShell

I did some work to aggregate some logs from a group of servers for the whole month of February. This took a while, but I ended up with a nice CSV file that I was ready to load into Excel to create some...

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The ABC language, thirty years later…

Back in March 1986, I was in my second year of college (Data Processing at the Universidade Federal do Ceara in Brazil). I was also teaching programming night classes at a Brazilian technical school....

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PowerShell for finding the size of your local OneDrive folder

I would just like to share a couple of PowerShell scripts to find the size of your local OneDrive folder. Note that this just looks at folders structures and does not interact with the OneDrive sync...

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Perhaps OneDrive

  Perhaps OneDrive Perhaps OneDrive’s like a place to save A shelter from the storm It exists to keep your files In their clean and tidy form And in those times of trouble When your PC is gone The...

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My Top Reasons to Use OneDrive

  As you might have noticed, I am now in the OneDrive team. Since I’ve been here for a few months, I think I earned the right to start sharing a few blogs about OneDrive. I’ll do that over the next few...

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Raw notes from the Storage Developer Conference 2015 (SNIA SDC 2015)

Notes and disclaimers: This blog post contains raw notes for some of the SNIA’s SDC 2015 presentations (SNIA’s Storage Developers Conference 2015) These notes were typed during the talks and they may...

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