Network Ports needed for VMware Products
As usual looking for this list of which ports need to be punched through the firewall in order allow all kinds of services to work correctly. Well today – I tried to scan a host for (that is behind a …
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Subscribe via RSS →Generate a Random Password - Powershell
A task that I do quite often when building a new System is to create random password a local user on the machine – Don’t ask – it is a an OPSEC requirement from way before my time. So instead of …
Quick Powershell tip - Remote Windows Management
Something that I do every now and again (almost every day - many times per day) is to connect to the Event Viewer / Computer Management / Services console of a Remote Windows machine for …
How to Throttle Removing ESX Snapshots
Recently we had a planned maintenance window that required shutting down power to the entire building. As part of the procedure we created snapshots of each VM before the powerdown. With PowerCLI this …
Install VMware Tools on Server Core
Just to remind you all - Server Core - NO GUI! I needed to install VMware tools today on a VM with Windows 2008 R2 Core. Start the VMware tools install. msiexec /i <path to>\VMware Tools64.msi …
Veeam FastSCP - Supports Win7 and Win2008R2
Last week I posted the link to the Beta release. Today Veeam announces the release of version 3.0.2 that now supports Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2. Release Notes New Features The following is a list …
FastSCP 3.0.2.270 Beta
For all of you who have been waiting for a version that works on Windows 7 and on Windows Server 2008 R2 it is out. For those that do not know the current tool does not work correctly on Windows 7 or …
A bit of housekeeping – Powershell
I have been busy with using Powershell in these past few days. I would like to share with you two of the scripts that I used lately. They were both used because of a password change that was made on a …
Always look at your OS versions.
This evening I started to create a Windows 2008 R2 Template for my environment. I created the VM with the assistance of this walkthrough adding my own tweaks along the way. I then tried to import the …
Assigning Permissions – PowerCLI
Have you ever been asked to assign permissions to a VM/Folder/Resource? Come on, own up! Of course you have. Ever done it with the GUI? I guess the answer is the same. So GUI is pretty easy: Find …