July 2021 - One admin's notes

Add Windows local users and admins by PowerShell

Kosta Kondaurov 2021-07-16 2023-07-18

Once I got a task to create Windows Server local users on 10 machines and give them Admin permissions. I’ve found that I’d rather automate and be effective. I prefer to spend 10 minutes writing a script and 10 minutes running it rather than spending 30 minutes for manual job. This small …

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Azure File Sync: Synchronize files with your own schedule

Kosta Kondaurov 2021-07-01 2022-08-24

When I was implementing Azure Storage File Sync solution, I found that it worked pretty quick with the files to be uploaded from a server to the cloud storage. The reason for it is the agent installed on the server checks for file changes. Unfortunately, when a file needs to be downloaded …