Powershell – Dumb shit that I do that might help you too

How to recursively apply permissions in NTFS using PowerShell with multithreading (jobs)

Posted on February 12, 2021February 12, 2021 by Markus

I recently had an issue where an iSCSI volume, formatted in NTFS spat its permissions. We all know the built-in UI for applying permissions is garbage, and as such I used this powershell script to grab each folder, and create a new process per folder, which then recursively applied new permissions. The reason why jobs…

WSUS hangs when running the Server Cleanup Wizard

Posted on December 11, 2019December 12, 2019 by Markus

So today our WSUS server was flagging up that it was out of drive space. No problem I said, I’ll just clear out some updates and let it run as it has once more, for the past 10 years. Oh dear… This box has 1.5TBs of updates, for every single Microsoft product that requires them,…