So in the spirit of reinventing the wheel, I present to you Tomalak’s excellent script (see above) but completely rewritten in Powershell!!! The main reason I did this was to evangelise the awesome powers of Powershell, but also because I despise vbscript with my entire being. It’s mostly feature to feature identical, but I did … Read more
You can create a Shadow copy on a specific drive using WMI object like it’s explained in Microsoft Article. Enable volume shadow copy on specific drive (D:, E:,…) is two things Creating a shadow copy as shown in the preceding article Creating a scheduled task to create shadow copy
I had the exact same problem in Server 2008 R2 and this is how I solved it: Right click on the folder you’re trying to restore from shadow copy and chose Previous Versions. Chose a date and click on Open. Right click on any file or folder within the previous folder and chose Properties. On … Read more
AD Servers are different. A Domain Controller has a directory junction on the C:\Windows\SYSVOL\sysvol directory that points to the C:\Windows\SYSVOL\domain directory: Directory of C:\Windows\SYSVOL\sysvol 04/13/2011 01:22 PM <DIR> . 04/13/2011 01:22 PM <DIR> .. 04/13/2011 01:22 PM <JUNCTION> domainName.acme.com [C:\Windows\SYSVOL\domain] Almost any type of a manual copy operation would result in a SYSVOL that does … Read more