Microsoft recently renamed the free license that academic institutions on Office 365 get (if you have an active EA) to “Office 365 Education Plus for students”. At the same time they added in the Office Pro Plus license option to allow our students (and staff) to get Office 2013 (soon to be 2016). Of course… Read More »
I was writing a PowerShell script and it needed to know whether or not it was running in the administrative context. It’s a bit fiddly but here’s a short bit of PowerShell that sets a boolean variable for it: $currentIdentity = New-Object System.Security.Principal.WindowsPrincipal([System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity]::GetCurrent()) $adminContext = $currentIdentity.IsInRole([System.Security.Principal.WindowsBuiltInRole]::Administrator) Run that and $adminContext will be True if the… Read More »
Interestingly this blog’s most popular post is one where I demonstrate how to find the serial number of a PC in a batch file so you can write a script that does different things for different computer models. I pretty much don’t write batch code any more, instead using PowerShell as much as possible. So I… Read More »
Say you’ve got a script and you want to run something in that script that only runs if you’re on a specific type of machine, what can we do to find out what machine we are on? Some might say “use vbscript and do a wmi call”. Well yes you could do that, but that’s… Read More »