Powershell
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VMware PowerCLI quickly add multiple VM vmnics
PowerCLI is a powerful tool that can be utilized to quickly perform tasks in a VMware environment. One of the overly painful tasks that you encounter when configuring or reconfiguring a VM is adding vmnics. Especially is this painful if…
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Mirror Hard drives without using RAID
When we think of traditional hard drive mirrors with RAID technology, we are usually talking about a RAID controller either software or hardware based that is performing parity operations on two hard drives and present the two hard drives as…
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Reset unresponsive VM with Powershell PowerCLI
I had a recent use case to be able to check the reachability of a certain VM which had shown itself to be problematic. If the VM wasn’t responsive or had crashed, restarting the VM with a graceful restart via VMware…
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Change Default Gateway with Powershell
One of the best ways to automate or check network settings with modern Windows OS’es is to use Powershell. Recently, I had a really unique use case where the need arose to check the default gateway and flip the gateway from…
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Monitor application pool IIS recycle if needed
In working with an issue where an application pool was taking an entire website down, it became apparent we needed a programmatic way to monitor the site itself and then take proactive action in an automated way to correct the…
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Powershell script signing the easy way
So I wanted to throw a quick blog post out there on Powershell script signing the easy way. This is a little bit tongue and cheek on the post as I don’t want to detail how to sign powershell scripts…
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Use powershell see important account properties
When it comes to querying Active Directory, there is no easier way to see information about user and computer objects than by using Powershell. Powershell provides access to query on all the properties of the objects that you would like…
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AppAssure powershell commandlets for administrators
If you administer an AppAssure environment, there is great power in using Powershell to do a lot of the heavy lifting. There are just some things about GUIs we all love to hate and the AppAssure GUI is no exception…
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Powershell if equals and not null
A while back, I wrote a blog post about using Powershell to email notify you if your home IP address changes if you are dynamically assigned an IP from your ISP. However, I wanted to write a quick post about…
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Powershell Script to check if AppAssure agent is installed on Servers
If you run Dell’s AppAssure backup software in your environment and have a multitude of servers, it is handy to be able to see which servers in your environment have the agent installed and which ones potentially do not. Using…
