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January 2010 - Helge Klein Helge Klein

  • Are Mandatory User Profiles Deleted at Logoff – or Cached?

    A popular misconception about mandatory user profiles is that they are deleted at logoff. I freely admit that I thought so, too, until I made some tests that proved I was wrong. Locally Cached Mandatory Profiles First, if you want to read up on the subject...
    Published Jan 23 2010 by Helge Klein , 456 views, 0 comments
  • Syntax Highlighting PowerShell Code in HTML – With a PowerShell Script

    When you are publishing PowerShell code on the web, you soon discover that it looks much nicer with syntax highlighting – as did I. There are several ways to add syntax highlighting to your blog or web site, most of which rely on external (Wordpress...
    Published Jan 18 2010 by Helge Klein , 572 views, 0 comments
  • How to List All Installed Applications From the Command Line

    How to easily create a list of all programs and (MSI) packages installed on a system for later processing? That sounds like a simple task, and it is. Interestingly, a quick web search revealed primarily more complex solutions where a script is used to...
    Published Jan 14 2010 by Helge Klein , 556 views, 0 comments
  • PowerShell Script Lists App-V Package Dependencies (Dynamic Suite Composition, DSC)

    App-V’s Dynamic Suite Composition is a powerful feature in that it allows multiple “bubbles” to share the same virtual environment. In other words, package A can be made dependent on package B. But if DSC is used extensively, dependencies...
    Published Jan 06 2010 by Helge Klein , 602 views, 0 comments
  • How to Analyze Kernel Performance Bottlenecks (and Find that ATI’s Catalyst Drivers Cause 50% CPU Utilization)

    Normally, finding the cause for high CPU utilization is easy – just start Task Manager. But what if the component consuming CPU cycles is a driver that runs in the kernel? In that case, there is no regular process Task Manager could attribute the...
    Published Jan 04 2010 by Helge Klein , 611 views, 0 comments