Category Archives: File sharing

(re)Setting rights on user home folders [batch script]

Posted on 2018 April 26 @ 03:04:51 by admin

After some troubles with copied user home folders during a migration, the rights were set incorrectly. As this was about more than just a handful of users, re-setting the rights manually wasn’t a good idea. After digging around on the … Continue reading →

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User folder displayed as “Documents”: Remove desktop.ini

Posted on 2017 October 12 @ 03:10:15 by admin

A users’ folder is displayed as “Documents” and you don’t want that. To e.g. remove desktop.ini files (which are hidden: use -force): Get-ChildItem “\\SERVER\d$\Users\Userdata\” -recurse -filter desktop.ini -force | foreach ($_) {remove-item $_.fullname -force} This deletes all the desktop.ini files … Continue reading →

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