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Powercli script to start/stop Local/Remote Tech Support Mode

Mar 16, 2012 PowerShell

After the installation of the latest vSphere 4.1 patches all our hosts showed a warning regarding the Tech Support Modes being enabled. I took the time to write a script to start/stop theses services on the hosts in the vCenter server. Image not found Web path: …

Start/Stop Tech Support Mode on vSphere hosts

May 29, 2011 PowerShell Scripting

After the installation of the latest vSphere 4.1 patches all hosts displayed a warning about Local & Remote Tech Support Mode being enabled. As I didn’t file like manually stopping the services on every host I took the time to write a script which can start/stop Local and Remote Tech Support mode on all hosts …

AD Recycle Bin

Sep 24, 2009 Active Directory PowerShell

I just came across a post by Jonathan Meddover at simple-talk.com about the new Active Directory recycle bin in Windows Server 2008 R2. It’s definitely worth the read.

Adding permissions on printers using powershell

Sep 20, 2009 PowerShell Scripting

I needed to add a group of users to the ACL of all our printers. As we currently have about 100 printers; I looked if I could use powershell for this. Currently on Windows server 2008 there are no built in cmdlets to administrate printers. But I did find a useful powershell script with everything I needed. I ended up …

Bulk Creating Active Directory groups

Jul 15, 2009 Active Directory LDAP PowerShell Quest

One of my colleagues gave me a list of AD groups for the sharepoint environment he’s confguring. Instead of creating them manually I used the Quest ActiveRoles management shell. 1import-csv 'SecurityGroups.csv' | foreach { 2New-QADGroup -Parent \$\_.ParentContainer -Name \$\_.Name -sAM 3\$\_.Name …

Bulk creating DNS records

Mar 10, 2009 PowerShell

Recently I needed to create tens of DNS records. This little script automates the creation of DNS records. The scripts reads a csv file which contains the hostname and the according IP address. This information is used to launch dnscmd which creates the DNS records in the supplied DNS zone. 1 2$DnsServer = …

VI Toolkit scripting contest winners announced

Sep 6, 2008 PowerShell Scripting Virtualization

Carter Shanklin announced the winners of the contest. 1st prize: The guest provisioning system of LucD. This application lets you provision your VMs in an easy way. You can set the options from one screen no clicking around to configure everything manually. 2nd prize: VI Power Documenter by tzamora. This script …

PowerGui integrates with VI Client

Jul 31, 2008 PowerGUI PowerShell Scripting Software VMware

Dmitri over at Dmitry’s PowerBlog just posted about the integration between PowerGui and the VI client. I had already installed the PowerGUI 1.5.1 version but hadn’t noticed the plugin for the VI Client. This makes managing your VMware environment using Powershell even more easier. PowerGUI lets you write your …

VI Toolkit 1.0 Released

Jul 27, 2008 PowerShell Scripting VMware

Last week VMware officially released the VI Toolkit for Windows. They replaced get-viserver with connect-viserver. get-viserver is now an alias for connect-viserver. disconnect-viserver was added which allows you to do a clean disconnect. Hence the rename of the get-viserver cmdlet. VMware also added cmdlets for …