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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 complete.   $SourcePath = "D:" $BackupPath = "F:Backup 2018-05-27" Write-Progress -Activity "Getting File List" -PercentComplete 0 $FileList = DIR $SourcePath -Recurse … Continue reading PowerShell script to check my backup by comparing file hashes →

Links about OneDrive Ransomware Detection and OneDrive Files Restore

Blogs and Announcements Office Blogs: Defend yourself from cybercrime with new Office 365 capabilities By Kirk Koenigsbauer, Corporate Vice President for Office, Microsoft https://blogs.office.com/en-us/2018/04/05/defend-yourself-from-cybercrime-with-new-office-365-capabilities/ OneDrive Blog: OneDrive Files Restore and Windows Defender takes ransomware protection one step further By Aaron Rimmer is the OneDrive Product Marketing Group Manager, Microsoft https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/OneDrive-Blog/OneDrive-Files-Restore-and-Windows-Defender-takes-ransomware/ba-p/188001 OneDrive UserVoice: Provide Ransomware detection … Continue reading Links about OneDrive Ransomware Detection and OneDrive Files Restore →

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 for the CP/M OS written in Turbo Pascal, which is called SuperDir: https://github.com/Jose-Barreto/SuperDir Back then, the OS had only 6 resident commands: DIR, ERA, REN, … Continue reading Open sourcing SuperDir, a file manager for CP/M written in the 1980s →

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 finding a path to the server When it gets there it knows it can read, write and close With a word it can get what it came … Continue reading Path to the Server (An Ode to SMB Multichannel) →

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 massive open online courses (MOOCs). openedx.microsoft.com pic.twitter.com/hdzJyrlEG3 Top media Tweet (earned 2,831 impressions) Ars Technica UK: Intel Core i7-7700K Kaby Lake review: Is the desktop CPU dead? … Continue reading My top tweets from 2017 →

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: Loading CSV/text files with more than a million rows into Excel. One of the challenges for … Continue reading Using PowerShell to generate a large test CSV file with random data →

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 http://blogs.technet.com/b/josebda/archive/2016/01/26/my-top-reasons-to-use-onedrive.aspx   New FileCab blog: Updating Firmware for Disk Drives in Windows Server 2016 (TP4) https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/filecab/2016/01/25/updating-firmware-for-disk-drives-in-windows-server-2016-tp4/   Updated Intel HD 5000 driver (released alongside the new Surface Pro 3 firmware) … Continue reading My top tweets from 2016 →