Chapter 18 Sessions: remote control, with less work You probably wouldn’t guess this from the chapter’s title, but this chapter is about Sessions. It was also partially a review of the earlier chapter in remoting, although this chapter was a bit more of a deep-dive on Sessions. Introduced in this Read more…
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Oh yeah…this one is going to be the mother. As it is currently just over 400 lines of code…Yeah I am exhausted. Anyway Here is the dealio
The end goal of this script is to automatically upgrade VMFS datastores to v5. However first it has to move all the VMs off of the datastore. SOOO…. you could say that the first part of this script is kind of a “poor man’s” SDRS Maintenance Mode. However it doesn’t take into account nearly the amount of things taken into account for the SDRS Storage vMotions, it just intelligently(or semi-intelligently) Storage vMotions VMs away from the datastore.
Chapter 15 Variables a place to store your stuff For someone who has used powershell for a little while here, most of the chapter seemed pretty straightforward. However trying to look at it from someone brand new to powershell(and in some ways I definitely still am) this is a very Read more…
Chapter 12 Multitasking with Background Jobs I am sure it didn’t, but it certainly felt like this chapter contained everything there was to know about jobs. Wow, I had no idea there was even that much to jobs. Per what is increasingly becoming the standard, this chapter has made me Read more…
Chapter 9 Filtering and Comparisons This was a short chapter but still had some unexpected nuggets of knowledge. An interesting thing was I was not aware, and/or never noticed that sometimes the properties listed from a format-list or format-table are not always the actual property names you would find in Read more…
Chapter 5 Adding Commands Super fun Chapter. The majority of the chapter was focused on modules and snapins. This was nice because although I felt I had the general overview of them previously, this chapter forced me to explore them a bit more than I probably would have otherwise. The Read more…
Chapter 2 Running Commands This was a fun chapter for me, and was more or less a review of info I already have a pretty good grip on. My favorite part is when Don explains how in his classes he makes his students repeat parameter syntax aloud… Hilarious! There was Read more…
Oh Dear, I am not sure what I am getting myself into…and you may be wondering that yourself. Assuming that I do a 1 part blog post per chapter of the book, that is a 28 part blog post. Being a blogger that has <1 year at blogging, that atleast Read more…
Scheduled Tasks is sort of a weird beast. Powershell v2 natively does not handle scheduled tasks very well at all, so you will see most people using scripting with schtasks, however this way is still clunky at best. I recently was tasked with getting all of the ntbackup information for Read more…
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…