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Isaw the exact command in another forum and the user said that Dropbox uses it for updates. Can anyone confirm this? Is there somewhere online with more information on the powershell commands that Dropbox uses?

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We have run into this exact same behavior, which was detected with our endpoint software. Is it normal for DropBox to operate in this way? I'm concerned that someone may have maliciously hijacked powershell to dump credentials to a dropbox account.

I've tried extending my timeout ($global:CurrentNCController.TimeoutMsec=600000), and that helped some, but I'm still getting this error. The system I'm connecting from is on the same subnet, and I can HTTPS or SSH into the system with no delay or issue. Running "volume snapshot show -vserver -volume " via SSH runs instantly, no delay...but running "Get-NCSnapshot -vserver -volume " takes forever...it will list a couple of snapshots, then give that warning message.

I found a workaround fix. I added -ZapiCall to the end of my powershell call to the NetApp, and that took care of it. There must be something with the REST version of the call for Get-NCSnapshot that doesn't jive with ONTAP 9.12.1P4.

Thanks for this! I'm fetching timestamps of oldest and latest snapshots for each volume with these kind of calls:

Get-NcSnapshot -volume $name Sort-Object -Property created Select-Object -first 1 -ExpandProperty Created

Since Get-NcSnapshot now takes like a minute for *each* snapshot, a call like that would take forever. "-ZapiCall" fixed it but I assume that just uses the old, soon to be depreciated, API so let's hope they get the PowerShell module fixed.

I have a workflow that clones and fills in Excel templates with requests for another department. Said department takes PDFs, so I mashed together a Powershell script that converts the Excel files in a specified folder into PDFs:

When I found & ran it, I realized Alteryx was not opening and running the generated script; specifying the working directory allowed the powershell script to run as expected. In this case, my workflow lives in a local Test folder.

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