Blogging, really?
I’ve come close to starting this blog a few times but I’ve never been interested enough. Most of the time I’m tempted to blog when I figure out something cool in PowerShell, workaround something stupid...
View ArticleCompare-Object workaround
One thing that’s frequently frustrated me about PowerShell is that using the Compare-Object cmdlet doesn’t always yield useful results. For instance, consider the following command: Compare-Object...
View ArticleWhere is that file, really?
If you use Microsoft DFS, determining “real” location of a file can be tricky… at least in a quick and script-y way. You can always right-click, choose properties and click on the DFS tab if you’ve got...
View ArticleWhen you absolutely, positively got to kill [almost] every [VM] in the...
We’ve had two instances that required us to shutdown our ESX infrastructure recently. The first was a data center move and the second was SAN maintenance. I wrote the following scripts to shutdown all...
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Import-PSSession and temp files
One of the reasons I use a custom PowerShell profile is to make things available no matter how or where I’ve launched PowerShell. For instance, I like to use the ISE and I work on Exchange. Instead of...
View ArticleAnother Exchange custom remote issue
So, I just discovered another issue with my method of invoking a simple remote session to Exchange 2010. The return types in many cases are deserialized so the following happens: PS> (get-mailbox...
View ArticleCustomizing the Windows 8 login screen
The default background color for “other users” logging into Windows 8 domain joined computers is an ugly purple by default. If you have a policy to not remember the last logged in user, it means that...
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Advanced Storage VMotions via PowerShell
When you want to migrate a virtual machine in the vCenter Client, the wizard gives you the option to click the Advanced button and then select the destinations for the configuration file and each hard...
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