A little over a week ago, 2012/01/05, I was fortunate enough to be on the Powerscripting Podcast. This was both a fun and an educational experience for me. Although I wish I could say I am a long listener of the show. I am really not, my first time listening Read more…
I figured I would join in on the fun. 2011 was a very different year for me both professionally and personally. Professionally it was the first full year I have had at my current job. That’s awesome because this is my first “big boy” professional job that I have actually Read more…
So this weekend I read the last 250 pages Mastering VMware vSphere 5 to finish it off. I have been busy with other things lately and have neglected reading it for longer than I probably should have. To start, if you read Mastering 4 by Scott Lowe, you probably have a Read more…
This is one of those scripts that come about when my boss walks into my office… Boss: “Can powershell…” Me:”Yes” He doesn’t even need to finish his sentence because I know powershell can do it. That doesn’t mean I will immediately know how to accomplish it with powershell, but Oh Read more…
I wanted an easier way to run powershell against AD OUs without having to worry about the some of the long strings we have to write for example OU=Ireland, OU=Europe, OU=Earth, DC=Test, DC=local No One really wants to type something like that out every time the just want to run Read more…
Wow, First I think that was the longest title I have had thus far for a blog post. Anyway, when updating/upgrading VMware Tools with VMware Update Manager the error I run into the most is just that VMwareToolsUpgrader.exe needs to be deleted from the target pc. I always get very Read more…
I saw this great post a few days ago about adding a Open Powershell context menu entry using regedit. I thought it was really cool, but quickly decided why not create it using POWERSHELL!!! I should note, you need to have powershell running as an admin for this… New-PSDrive -Name Read more…
For the past couple weeks I have been using a nice one-liner to find out the VMs in my environment have the upgrade policy that I want them to have. I almost always personally want my virtual machines to upgrade vmware tools on a powercycle. It makes it easier for Read more…
You just updated vCenter and VUM to the latest vSphere 5, now you get to take a break and have a drink, right? Nope! You get to now upgrade your hosts to the latest version. Fortunately this is a super easy process. Let’s get started. Connect your vSphere Client to Read more…
In one of my environments I was still running SQL Server Express 2005 with both vCenter and VUM attached to it. I decided that with my upgrade to vSphere 5, I should go ahead and do the full upgrade to SQL Server 2008 R2 as well. My plan is as Read more…