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As I said in my last post I have a whole stack of things to talk about in the aftermath of Tech.ed in Barcelona. One of those is the changes made in server core. Fortunately Andrew over at the Windows Server Core blog has saved me a job, his post has...
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This demo shows some of the neat things you can do with PowerShell with regards to server administration. There are 10 demos you can run through ranging from simple queries for services to enumerating information in Active Directory. Some of the scripts...
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I'm going to spend the next two or three Posts explaining what I did in this session for those who weren't there but, for those who were I promised the slides and scripts would be downloadable You can get from my skydrive Share this post: Read...
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I had a mail from Alessandro, asking about scheduling operations on Hyper-V; specifically he wanted to schedule the snapshotting of a virtual machine. The logic was already in my codeplex library , but it only needs a couple of the functions ( new-vmsnapshot...
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I’ve been doing a ton of PowerShell recently, in which is part of the reason why the number of blog posts I’ve made has been down. One of the jobs has been to go back to some of the code I wrote a while back and examine how I handle WMI objects. At the...
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This past Tuesday I had the pleasure of presenting our TechNet Event in downtown Chicago. WOW! We had a great turnout, and a very fun discussion around Windows Vista , Windows PowerShell , and the latest improvements in Group Policy . During...
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Bonjour, Je m'occupe du site dorénavent du site http://unifiedit.wordpress.com/ en plus de http://system-it.net et devra à terme le remplacer. Vous comprendrez vite pourquoi :) Voilà, vous y trouverez principalement des news et des articles techniques...
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Something which has come up more than once with the builds I of my PowerShell Hyper-V library has been that by default PowerShell doesn't ask Windows to elevate it's privileges - which, for example, the Microsoft Management Console does. By default...
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SQL Server: Top Tips for Effective Database Maintenance Far too often, people who are not trained database administrators somehow end up responsible for a database. They lack the proper training and knowledge to maintain their database, and problems begin...
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One of the advantages of having Virtualization integrated with Windows is that the Hyper-V (and in fact Virtual Server 2005) registers itself in active directory so you can discover your servers easily - quite useful if servers start popping up like mushrooms...
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I've decided to go ahead and post the PowerShell library I have been working on to Codeplex . I wanted to explain various bits of it here before pulling it all together, but that is taking more time than I wanted. I've provided early copies to...
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I've said a number of times that I think technical people are rarely secure in their own abilities; that they have a demon on their shoulder who whispers "You're not really, that good" ... "They'll find you out one day"...
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If you've read my post on adding disks to a Virtual machine , the techniques here should already feel familiar. We create a NIC , and we create a switch port. And then we tell the NIC it is connected to the switch port. Hyper-V creates VM switches...
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In an earlier post in this series (several posts ago now) I showed how I could use the Msvm_virtualSystemManagementService WMI object can be used to Configure resources in Hyper-V, and I started with the easy step of setting with memory and CPUs which...
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You might know that I run a website with Dan Nerenberg called thelazyadmin.com . Another friend and MVP, Mitch Tulloch wrote an article titled Laziness as a Virtue . In the article Mitch talks about how laziness can actually be a good thing! If you want...
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A friend and board member of a local user group pointed me to a recent article in BetaNews , talking about some cool new capabilities in the next version of Windows PowerShell . According to the CTP 2 download page (yes, you can download a Community...
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In which we see how to set the number of CPUs I started with getting MSVM Computer System objects - which I showed back in February . With these objects I can ask for the state of the VM to be changed to Running, Stopped or Saved. To do things in a proper...
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Please excuse the bad pun... When I first wrote the function I posted to display the state of virtual machines , I used a construction which has been familiar to programmers since time immemorial. If X=1 output this If X=2 output that etc Most modern...
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In my last post I explained how snapshots work and gave a little bit of PowerShell for creating a one . In the post before that I talked about creating a generic choose-tree function. What I wanted was to be able to call Choose-tree List_Of_Items...
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The machine is running quite happily and has never been snapped. Late on Monday make a snapshot. This does two things 1.If the Machine is running or in a saved state we make a copy of memory 2. We stop writing changes to its VHD and start writing changes...
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I've been showing PowerShell on the roadshow, and Steve warning me about it becoming the "Look-how-clever-I-am-with-PowerShell show". Actually, I quite like the idea of a "Look-how-clever-PowerShell-makes-you show". Working on...
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... In which we find VMs, them choose one, start them, stop them , and connect to them. I spent more of the last week than I planned looking at Hyper-V and Powershell, and I'm getting dangerously close to calling myself an expert. There are two WMI...
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Do you want to use the server core installation option of Windows Server 2008, but are put off by the command-line interface? Well, Guy Teverovsky may have what you need. He created a GUI for the GUI-less server core of WS08. Check it out here . Patrick...
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Fair's fair. I've taken VMware to task when they, or their bloggers, post something which I think is false. Or the more blatant I think falsehood, the more outspoken my condemnation. Although it's might make a for a simpler view of the world to be attacking...
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One of the things which annoys me about Powershell is that having (in effect) extended the available commands with functions and filters, Tab expansion doesn't find them. I was aware that people have done some clever things extending Tab-expansion ( Power...
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