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Dev 4 the Ops Team Preview

Oct 7, 2018 · 2 min read · vmworld vmw2018 vmware powershell vbrownbag powercli ·

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:

I believe every IT Ops person, SysAdmin, and vSphere administrator should do some coding

Get the Windows Install Date of a remote computer with PowerShell

Sep 11, 2018 · 2 min read · microsoft windows powershell ·

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Get the Windows Install Date of a remote computer with PowerShell

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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Devs4Ops Resources

Jan 18, 2018 · 2 min read · vmug powershell #lonvmug powercli ·

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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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Auto Power On and VCSA Upgrades

Mar 27, 2017 · 4 min read · homelab vmware vcenter rest-api powershell ·

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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 …

PowerShell Quick Tip- Letter Frequency

Mar 16, 2017 · 1 min read · powershell ·

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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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Checking Encryption Status of Remote Windows Computers

Jan 12, 2017 · 2 min read · microsoft windows bitlocker encryption powershell ·

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Checking Encryption Status of Remote Windows Computers

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 …

Using Test-NetConnection to check connectivity

Jan 7, 2016 · 2 min read · microsoft windows powershell networking ·

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Using Test-NetConnection to check connectivity

A regular ping command is great for checking if Host A can see Host B, but what if we want to go a bit deeper- for example check if a web server is contactable on port 80 and 443? The PowerShell cmdlet Test-NetConnection is a great tool for doing this.
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PowerShell Christmas Countdown

Nov 1, 2015 · 1 min read · microsoft powershell christmas ·

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How Many Sleeps Till Christmas?
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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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