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Getting Average Usage from your hosts - PowerCLI

I was asked to provide a small report on what the average RAM usage was on each host over the past 30 days I forgot to mention the code was inspired by the session that Luc Dekens and Alan Renouf gave …

  • vSphere
  • Scripting
  • Powershell
  • Administration
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Social Media Users List at VMworld 2010

John Troyer published a document on the VMworld site VMworld 2010 is going to be a whirlwind of technological and social activity. Let’s keep in touch! If you are going to VMworld 2010 in San …

  • VMworld
  • Powershell
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Changes in PowerCLI 4.1

July 14, 2010 Kirk Munro posted last week about the PowerCLI 4.1: A fork in the road regarding changes in namespaces that were introduced in the new version of PowerCLI 4.1. Scott Herold of Vizioncore …

  • Management
  • Scripting
  • Powershell
  • 4.1
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Quest ActiveRoles Management Shell for AD-1.4

Quest just released a new version of there amazing Active Directory Module - Version 1.4 Here is Dmitry’s Post about the release: There are many new Cmdlets available here are some of the details from …

  • Active Directory
  • Microsoft
  • Tools
  • Management
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Updating pictures for Users in AD - pt. 2

The last sentence in my previous post on Updating Pictures for Users in AD was: Now the only part hat needs to be taken care of - is getting a proper image from HR in the correct size. Maybe we will …

  • Active Directory
  • Tools
  • Scripting
  • Powershell
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Get-AllDomainControllers Function

Sometimes you would like to run a query against all DC’s in your forest. For example today – I was looking a specific error on the System Event Logs. Here is a quick way to get all the DC’s in …

  • Active Directory
  • Tools
  • Scripting
  • Powershell
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Updating Pictures for Users in AD

I came across a nice article last week regarding pictures for User accounts in an Active Directory environment First let describe the issue at hand. Every now and again, my manager gets an email …

  • Active Directory
  • Powershell
  • Administration
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2010 Scripting Games

The 2010 Scripting Games are over and the results have been posted here. The scripting games is a fun little competition - well not so little. Similar to a decathlon there are 10 Events, published …

  • Scripting Games
  • Scripting
  • Powershell
  • Miscellaneous
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Set a Time Limit on Group Membership

One of the most surprising things that Microsoft have not yet provided in Active Directory management - is allowing you to set a time limit on assigning membership of a user to a group. Let me explain …

  • Active Directory
  • Tools
  • Security
  • Scripting
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Monitor AD Replication Status with Powershell

Do you know the feeling? You have 40 domain controllers located in 20 different locations - with a multitude of child domains and children of those child domains, on all sides of the globe (yeah I …

  • Active Directory
  • Management
  • Powershell
  • Windows