I'm experiencing a weird phenomena regarding Windows SYSTEM Account. Looking at these three different ways to start a process as SYSTEM: * Sysinternals PSExec * Task Scheduler * GPO Startup Script. Processes started with these methods result in different access token group memberships! Processes started by Task Scheduler have the [...] read more
I am trying to perform an automatic backup of some files and folders based on a configuration. This is done using Powershell 5 which in turn relies on Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS). E.g.: Start-BitsTransfer $Source\* $Destination -RetryInterval 60 -RetryTimeout 600 Powershell scripts are run using a bat: powershell -ExecutionPolicy [...] read more
I have written a PowerShell script which uses the BITS transfer protocol in order to transfer large files from Source machine to destination machine. When I run the PowerShell script manually logging into my destination remote machine (where the files need to be copied) then the files are getting copied [...] read more
I'm trying to launch a BITS service download in a GPO Startup Script. Startup Scripts are started as the local SYSTEM account, which works well for background downloads as per Microsoft's documentation https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa363152(v=vs.85).aspx Sadly when I try to start a download (disregarding valid source or destination) I get the following [...] read more
I am working on making some scripts to make my job a little bit easier. One of the things i need is too download some files to use. I first used powershell with the command Invoke-WebRequest. It is working really well, however it dont run on windows 7 computeres, as [...] read more
I just tried to upgrade a Windows 7 machine to Windows 10 and it failed for no apparent reason. Both Windows 10 Upgrade Assistant and Media Creation Tool fail, the former with 0xc1900200 and latter with 0x800704DD-0x90016 error code. When it happens (with Upgrade Assistant), the following three events appear [...] read more
I cannot get the program Just Gestures to start up automatically when booting up. I have made sure to select the option in the preferences: enter image description here [https://i.stack.imgur.com/ctEJM.png] I've even made a shortcut of the .exe and put it in the startup folder, but it still won't startup [...] read more
I'd like to write some code that uses BITS for copying very large files between disks on the same server (the second disk being a SAN level clone\snapshot). I looked into BITS as i thought it would be a good way to get progress\percentage complete data on the transfers, as [...] read more
I have a script which logs into a site and navigates to a page with a bunch of PDF files, which I wish to download. A handful of the PDF URLs are from a different domain than the rest. The error I am receiving when trying to download with Start-BitsTransfer [...] read more
This is my first question on SO, and I am have tried to avoid it, but am forced to ask. I can't use FTP, as that's insecure. I can't use FTPS, as I can't introduce expiring cert overhead. WEBDAV over https isn't an option. What would be ideal would be [...] read more