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How to download CMTrace from Microsoft

Posted on by Patrik

I was recently faced with a problem, I wanted needed CMTrace to read a logfile from one of my scripts on a computer that didn't have it. As a tangent, a friend of mine has a great logging script available here, it won't write in the CMTrace format by default but you can ask it…

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Powershell counting to $null instead of 1

Posted on by Patrik

There is this weird thing in Powershell that you might have come across if you have ever counted how many objects you have. In some cases Powershell will count 0 $null 2 3… You could say that this is a side effect of how Powershell tries to "magically" simplify stuff. The thing is, it doesn't…