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…
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…
For those of you who haven’t seen it yet, or have been living under a rock. PowerCLI 5 has been out for a couple of weeks. Or maybe longer, my sense of time is always skewed with how busy I become. Anyway, if you want to check out some of Read more…
I have been using the invoke-command quite a bit lately to do some remote installs and other things, and I ran into an issue passing parameters to the script to be run on the remote machine. $script= { cmd /c “$pathRunInstall.bat” } I quickly realized that the $path parameter was Read more…
Recently I was trying to run an invoke-command on a several remote computers and I received this error… This was an interesting error for me as I had run the exact same invoke-command on several other machines with no issues. After some digging and with a little help from a Read more…
Here it is, my little project I have been working on for the last few weeks. Yes, I know, a few weeks is quite a long time for a script. This however is my first time writing a powershell script, so there have a been a few road bumps and Read more…