Microsoft is going to delete the works of thousands of contributors and lot many scripts that has helped us with many things. Owners are asked to migrate to GitHub - however, the useful scripts that aren't maintained goes into the black hole. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/teamblog/technet-gallery-retirement
If anyone could provide an active torrent for the https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/ backup I would be forever grateful!!!!
Hey all, first time posting here (But I have lurked for drive info for a while)
Anyway, with the recent talk of backing up other sites, I'd figured I'd drop my tool here for downloading the TechNet Gallery and converting it to Markdown (Thanks to James Cussen's tool)
https://www.ucmadscientist.com/technet-is-doomed-how-to-save-your-favourite-tools-easily/
All up it's about 10GB compressed which is pretty impressive when you consider it's all scripts, small tools and tools. (I think someone uploaded video tutorials too.)
I'd host the entire lot out of my (paid) OneDrive, but it's impossible to find info on the sharing limits.
So here are the Lync tools (as that's what my MVP specialty is)
Man, sometimes TechNet sucks...
I am working through a scenario with my customer where we have file-level backups in place on a FileServer1 using Azure Backup, and this server is shut down, mimicking a server failure. The goal is to restore files from this backup using only PowerShell on FileServer2. There is a cmdlet for this purpose (Get-OBAlternateBackupServer) but I am not able to find any documentation online regarding this type of restore process.
The TechNet listing for Get-OBRecoverableSource does mention Alternate Server Recovery, but the example they list is not correct, as neither Get-OBAlternateBackupServer or Get-OBRecoverableSource contain the "-Credential" switch (https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh770410.aspx):
$pwd = ConvertTo-SecureString -String "nota5odpass" -AsPlainText -Force
$cred = New-Object -TypeName System.Management.Automation.PsCredential -ArgumentList contoso\johnj99, $pwd
Get-OBAlternateBackupServer -Credential $cred | Where-Object -FilterScript {$_.ServerName -Like "*h*"} | Get-OBRecoverableSource –Credential $cred
Does anyone know how to properly perform an Alertnate Server Recovery (backup files and folders on FileServer1 to Azure, and restore individual files to FileServer2) using PowerShell? Seems that the Get-OBRecoverableSource should have a "-Passphrase" switch, because that step in the GUI requires the backup encryption password to retrieve the backup restore points.
This amazing resources of Powershell and coding examples is going to be removed. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/teamblog/technet-gallery-retirement
