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Compressing IIS and Windows Media Server Logs with PowerShell

The PowerShell Community Extensions Project shipped a Write-GZip cmdlet which made me think that it's time to re-write the trusty CompressLogFiles.vbs file I've been using for a while.  After grappling with the square brackets in the WMS [Global] folder I think I finally have a viable solution...
  • Posted on Jan 31 2008, 02:04 PM
    • by Colin

Bumping the CD/DVD drive letter in Windows PE

While slogging through automating my development workstation build I found the need to have a script that bumps the CD/DVD drive letter allocations up one so I could put a partition in its place. It seems like a useful script for those situations where you might need it so I thought I would post it:...
  • Posted on Jul 01 2007, 03:31 PM
    • by Colin

Backing up and Clearing Event Logs

There were a few variations on this them that I came across. I thought I would expand the scripts to a more complete solution: Option Explicit If WScript.Arguments.Count <> 1 Then WScript.Echo "Syntax: BackupEventLogs.vbs <TargetFolder>" WScript.Quit End If Dim shell Set shell ...
  • Posted on Nov 19 2006, 01:30 PM
    • by Colin

Deploying Commerce Server 2007 Sites without Site Packager

From my initial investigation Site Packager's evolution has been unclear in the latest release of Microsoft Commerce Server . One of the most obvious holes was the lack of documentation and support for command-line deployment. While there has been some improvement in this latest release, it still...
  • Posted on Nov 05 2006, 04:31 AM
    • by Colin

Search and Replace with Regular Expressions

There are a lot of great search and replace tools out there. In particular I've been a fan of the tools put out by Jan Goyvaerts . While these tools do a lot there are times where all you need is a basic search and replace with the added zest of regular expressions. If that's what you are looking...
  • Posted on Nov 05 2006, 02:52 AM
    • by Colin

Adding a User or Group to an Authorization Manager (AzMan) Role

I had a need recently to add a user or group to an authorization manager role. During my search of the documentation it seems that they are quite light on decent examples. Here's my complete solution for anyone else needing to accomplish this task: Option Explicit If WScript.Arguments.Count <>...
  • Posted on Nov 04 2006, 11:08 PM
    • by Colin

Finding the source of "It is not possible to run two different versions of ASP.NET in the same IIS process"

Ever get the following error? “It is not possible to run two different versions of ASP.NET in the same IIS process. Please use the IIS Administration Tool to reconfigure your server to run the application in a separate process.” And of course you don't want to spend all day going through...
  • Posted on May 08 2006, 11:40 AM
    • by Colin