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Recovery of an Accidentally Deleted Datastore.

Jul 20, 2015 · 1 min read · esxi vcenter vmware ·

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A VMware administrator has been tidying up an old ESX host prior to decommissioning and has accidentally clicked Delete on a shared datastore rather than Unmount.

Using PowerCLI to measure VM disk space usage.

May 5, 2015 · 2 min read · esxi vcenter vmware powercli ·

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I had a recent need to calculate how much disk space was being taken up by all the VMs in my vSphere environment for capacity planning purposes.
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Deploying SCCM Applications via a custom web portal

Apr 17, 2015 · 4 min read · appj sccm microsoft numecent ·

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Deploying SCCM Applications via a custom web portal

My organisation has a user-facing application portal, distributing Application Jukebox and direct download apps from one central location. However, we use SCCM to distribute some applications and have been stuck in the unsatisfactory situation of having to direct users to two different sites depending on what …
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70-410 Installing and Configuring Windows Server 2012R2

Feb 19, 2015 · 2 min read · microsoft windows ·

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I sat, and passed, the Microsoft 70-410 exam in Windows Server 2012R2 last week.
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Testing a web server with PowerShell

Jan 30, 2015 · 2 min read · microsoft windows powershell ·

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Here’s another little PowerShell script that might be useful. This was knocked up to provide some basic load testing on the search function of a web application
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Using PowerShell to check a folder copied

Jan 28, 2015 · 2 min read · microsoft windows powershell ·

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Using PowerShell to check a folder copied

I’ve had a number of times over the years where I’ve needed to guarantee to someone that their data is unchanged as a result of an IT action
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VMUG London January 2015

Jan 26, 2015 · 4 min read · vmug PernixData docker vmware 10zig vbeers #lonvmug ·

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Despite having attended the annual VMware-hosted London vForums a few times this was my first VMware User Group meeting.
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Migrate VM to a new datastore

Jan 9, 2015 · 2 min read · esxi vcenter vmware powercli powershell ·

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In an ESXi environment with no Storage vMotion I had the need to move a production VM from one datastore to another.
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ICYMI- A review of the year

Dec 31, 2014 · 1 min read ·

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In case you missed it, here are some highlights of this blog from the last year.
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Using RemoteApp to stream Application Jukebox packages

Dec 23, 2014 · 2 min read · microsoft appj remoteapp windows numecent ·

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I’m currently working in an environment where we use the Application Jukebox architecture as an Application Virtualisation platform to package and stream software to our Windows estate. Recently I have also been running a POC system based on Server 2012R2 to provide Windows Apps to our Macintosh users via RemoteApp. …