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This PowerShell snippet compiles a daily report of backup jobs on all the Recovery Service Vaults within the current subscription. It then uses the Office 365 SMTP server to mail this report out to chosen recipients - if you’re not using O365 then just change the SMTPServer, Port, and UseSSL arguments as …
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A quick run through using PowerShell to deploy a new WebApp. ASP.NET code for the website has been zipped up (into myapp.zip) and this code snippet will upload it to a new WebApp, hosted in a new App Service Plan and a new Resource Group.
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A colleague recently popped in a support request after noticing that the Calculator app wasn’t installed on their computer. This prompted an office discussion on how else you can solve sums when sat in front of a computer, and I mentioned you could just use PowerShell.
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In one month from now I’ll be speaking at VMworld in Barcelona with a concise session on coding skills for the IT operations team. To quote the abstract for the session:
Read MoreI believe every IT Ops person, SysAdmin, and vSphere administrator should do some coding
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A quick script that came up in response to a situation where I wanted to know the date a workstation on the network was last built without visiting the machine or interrupting the currently logged on user. PowerShell to the rescue!
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This post contains resources to accompany my Devs4Ops talk from the January 2018 London VMUG. It’s a list of links to things I mentioned (or intended to mention but forgot to) in the presentation.
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VMware vSphere 6.5 comes with a RESTful API implementation and there’s some great documentation out there- starting with the API Explorer (http://my.vcenter.name/apiexplorer ). Here’s a quick piece on how to use this API to create a VM from the PowerShell command line. This is intentionally not using PowerCLI, just the …
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With a list of Surnames in a text file I wanted to see how many start with A, how many with B, and so on. This is my PowerShell solution:
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Using the manage-bde command you can check the Bitlocker encryption status on both the local Windows computer but also remote devices on the local area network. For example, to check the encryption status of the C: drive on the computer “WS12345” the following command could be used 1manage-bde -status -computername …
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