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Is there any PowerShell scripts to get the User Usage details (Metrics – Audit log) of the Microsoft Visio and Microsoft Projects or is there any other way to get those details

Is there any PowerShell scripts to get the User Usage details (Metrics or audit log) of the Microsoft Visio and Microsoft Projects or is there any other way to get those details

Hi,

Thanks for the script.

I have followed the instructions,however the extension I m trying to uninstall is still showing but is disabled not removed.

I am missing somthing ?

I’ve used `cat` and `>>` to add the contents of the public key file to administrators_authorized_keys file but the contents were converted on the fly to utf16. The file looked ok in notepad but openssh could not read it. What is worse: there was no error in the logs neither on server side nor in client (`-vvv`). I’ve wasted hours on this! I’ve tried `LogLevel DEBUG` in `sshd_config` but the `__PROGRAMDATA__/ssh/logs` directory is empty.

Hello All,

I’ve written a smile script to download a test file from my github and it works fine on my laptop powershell, however it throws below error when i run the same script on Windows Server 2012. The only thing i noticed is that version of Powershell is different only Laptop and the Server.

Exception calling “DownloadFile” with “2” argument(s): “An exception occurred during a WebClient request.”
At line:3 char:1
+ $WebClient.DownloadFile(“$Link”,”$env:C:Test_powershellBackupCI.xls …
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : WebException

any suggestions/help on this is highly appreciated

I’ll take a command line over a GUI any day since it’s batchable. Plus I like the keyboard so anything that keeps me away from the mouse is my preferred platform.

Be careful with admitting that you are a GUI lover. This is almost like being an anti royalist these days. 😉

As per my experince , You mean SyncToy , the Microsoft tool , but for this comment
“Try copying millions of files, possibly without keeping the same tree structure at the target as at the source, and logging errors (the most frequent being missing NTFS permissions at the source) ” ,
Gs Richcopy 360 and Syncback are created exactly for such cases.
Backup/sync GUI tools like Gs Richcopy 360 and Syncback have a nice and simple GUI, able to copy to local drives, remote servers, LANs, WANs, and clouds, able to copy all the permissions types from source to destination, and also able to copy time stamps.
and as I remember, there are options to throttle the connection speed to prevent bandwidth consumption, a feature to email you after the job is finished, an excellent task scheduler and it will never crash while transferring a large amount of data.
there are also other differences between such a GUI tools and CLI tools, just try to search

You are right Michael 🤣🤣

Hello Sarah
I too recognize that the GUI is very practical and useful … but only in certain cases: Simple and unitary tasks

For all that is complex tasks – even simple but repetitive – nothing beats the command line and the script.

you named 3 tools: SyncToy – Gs Richcopy 360 – Syncback
Try copying millions of files, possibly without keeping the same tree structure at the target as at the source, and logging errors (the most frequent being missing NTFS permissions at the source), I wish you good luck with these tools.

These 3 tools are undeniably practical for personal use only and limited in volume, not for professional use.

🤣🤣

> Storing recovering information in Active Directory fails

As a sidenote, if your environment is still very old (Read 2008 R2 DCs) there are scripts that are required to be run to create the various objects and ACLs for storing the bitlocker keys in AD. Microsoft used to provide these scripts on their articles, but it’s getting harder and harder to find these old vbs scripts that perform these steps. Not that anyone should still be running 2008 R2 nowadays, but it’s worth noting that this will stop keys from backing up.

The dumbest bitlocker-related error we used to see was “This PC doesn’t support entering a bitlocker recovery password during startup”. Fix is to do an admin cmd prompt and run “Reagentc.exe /enable” then attempt to bitlocker again. Related to that are “The system cannot find the FILE specified” which means “delete C:WindowsSystem32RecoveryReAgent.xml and try to enable bitlocker again” or “The system cannot find the PATH specified” which means “Ensure that a folder called ‘Recovery’ exists in C:WindowsSystem32”

On some really old HP 810’s we also had to do some weird stuff when trying to update firmware:

Case: Bitlocker is OFF, and when trying to update the TPM firmware you get prompted for an Owner password. Owner Password is a legacy key that is no longer in use. Trying to clear TPM from within Windows doesn’t work as expected. You can clear the “TPM Owner” before updating TPM firmware as follows:

Run Command Prompt as Administrator and run the following lines:

reg add HKLMSOFTWAREPoliciesMicrosoftTPM /f /v OSManagedAuthLevel /t REG_DWORD /d 4

WMIC /namespace:rootcimv2SecurityMicrosoftTpm Path Win32_Tpm Where __RELPATH=”Win32_Tpm=@” Call SetPhysicalPresenceRequest 14

Then reboot.

You may also have to set a bios setting to allow Windows to adjust TPM password before doing these changes.

I got to know Robocopy years ago from a colleague in I.T.

It didn’t take me long to realize I hate creating batch files so I did a google search for a Robocopy GUI

and I found these There are these:

SyncToy
Gs Richcopy 360
Syncback

Some are free but the pay versions are reasonably priced.

SyncToy is free and does not use Robocopy but it is pretty decent and was developed by a man from Microsoft.

Gs Richcopy 360 and Syncback are fantastic and able to replace Robocopy , and are easy to use,full_featured, and can solve the issues that robocopy can’t handle.
A quick Google search will yield results so I won’t post any URLs here.

I am a GUI lover so I love these options.

Or simply:

$session = New-PSSession $computername
Import-Module -PSSession $session $ModuleNameGoesHere

That is it 🙂

Good to know you figured this out.

Mystery Solved. This laptop runs Windows 11 HOME which does not support Bitlocker. The confusion was caused by the tech leaving and giving my friend instructions about re-enabling “Bitlocker”. What’s really sad is that over the past 3 weeks this has gone up the support chain to a regional manager. The actual problem is that TPM was not enabled on the new system board so device encryption cannot work. I figured this out today when I was able to examine the laptop myself for the first time. Problem solved.