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A simple batch script to delete Files & Folders older than x days

August 5, 2014 Pantelis Apostolidis Clients, Microsoft, PowerShell, Servers One comment

The below deletes all files from c:temp older than 10 days: FORFILES /p “c:temp” /m *.* /c “cmd /c Del

Connect Powershell to Exchange Online

July 24, 2014 Pantelis Apostolidis Exchange, Microsoft, Office 365, PowerShell, Servers

Connect PowerShell to Exchange Online $UserCredential = Get-Credential $Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://outlook.office365.com/powershell-liveid/ -Credential $UserCredential -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection

Copy AZURE VHD to other storage account

July 10, 2014 Pantelis Apostolidis Azure, Microsoft, PowerShell, Servers

#Source storage account $context1 = new-azurestoragecontext -storageaccountname “name_source_account” -storageaccountkey “key_source_account” #Destination storage account $context2 = new-azurestoragecontext -storageaccountname “name_destination_account” -storageaccountkey “key_destination_account”

Track Azure VHD copy process

July 10, 2014 Pantelis Apostolidis Azure, Microsoft, PowerShell, Servers

$context = new-azurestoragecontext -storageaccountname “name_destination_account” -storageaccountkey “key_destination_account” Get-AzureStorageBlobCopyState -Blob “file_name.vhd” -Container “vhds” -Context $con Source: http://devslice.net/2013/10/moving-a-windows-azure-virtual-machine-to-a-different-data-center/

Set static IP to Azure VM

July 9, 2014 Pantelis Apostolidis Azure, Microsoft, PowerShell, Servers

First of all, the VM must be within a virtual network to be able to add a static Private IP