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 …
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Subscribe via RSS →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 …
ESXi Deployment Solution - Part 2
Today we will be dealing with some details of the parts involved. In my previous post - I explained the rationale behind the whole process. So let us get into the schematics. An ESX server can be …
ESXi Deployment Solution - the beginning
I posted a small preview about a new ESXi Deployment Solution. First question I would like to answer is why? Why is a Deployment solution needed for ESXi? Why is it any different to Deploying the full …
Those Annoying thing in Powershell
Powershell v2.0 has a cmdlet that allows you to send an email Send-MailMessage NAME Send-MailMessage SYNOPSIS Sends an e-mail message. SYNTAX Send-MailMessage [-To] <string[]> [-Subject] …
How to Speed Up Your PowerCLI Queries
It is a known fact that using PowerCLI there are more than one way to skin a cat - or more than one way to access the SDK and the properties that you would like to get. Take for example getting all …
Small Quirk with Get-View vs. Get-VM
I was trying something last night to compare the speed of the two Cmdlets here. I noticed something though. While running the command I wanted to check against how many machines I was running the …
Deploy-ESXi v1.0 - My ESXi Script-0-Mania entry
As I posted a few weeks ago - I entered the ESXi Script-0-Mania Contest. Unfortunately, my entry was not chosen as one of the top entries, but hey - I don’t do this for the money - I enjoy what …
Distribution and Security Groups
I was asked to day at work, “What would be the quickest way to add all of the members of a Distribution Group to a Security Group?”, the reason of course being because you cannot assign …
My ESXi Script-O-Mania entry - Deploy-ESXi
I have submitted a script for the VMware Script-O-Mania contest that will end in a little under 9 hours from now. The idea behind the script was for automating the deployment of a stand-alone ESXi …