Aug 12, 2011
Active Directory offers the possibility to save pictures in a user’s object. These pictures can then be used in Outlook, Sharepoint or even self-written applications. Here is how you can do it: This function will read a picture resource from a url (szUrl) and...
Aug 12, 2011
Windows 7 offers the possibility to show small user account pictures, for example in the start menu or on the lock screen. Since there is no documented way of setting this picture programmatically here is a solution for developing a small application that can do this...
Mar 11, 2011
When working with hundreds of computers and users you may have found ‘your’ way of managing printers. But Windows 7 sometimes (may be together with its users) thwart your plans. Since there is a configuration dialog in the start menu called Devices and...
Nov 7, 2010
When you have a look at my vbscript bitlocker post and try to use it on remote machines you may not get any results but an application eventlog entry similar to this one here: Event Source: WinMgmt Event ID: 5605 Access to the […] namespace was denied. The...
Nov 6, 2010
Sometimes you need to use an environment variable (eg. username, userprofile, computername, …) in Powershell. The location where environment variables are stored is “env:”. This behaves similar to a hard or flash drive. You can list its content or...
Sep 28, 2010
Documentation for functions, methods and properties used in this post: Win32_EncryptableVolume GetEncryptionMethod GetProtectionStatus GetConversionStatus GetKeyProtectors GetLockStatus...
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