This all but new, but a friend of mine needed to install an update on a bunch of servers yesterday, he figured out how to execute the update but did not have […]
PowerShell is King – Create the “missing” VM on all the lab machines
Lets assume that you are running a class and suddenly someone raise the hand and say “I’m missing one of the VMs…” That is far from god, but wait a minute, what […]
PowerShell is King–Test RDP Connection and Connect
So, during the class today we talked about simple but useful things you could do with PowerShell. So we had a very simple situation, during reboot of servers everyone asked “how long […]
PowerShell is King – Convert Windows Server Editions using a UI based PowerShell script
If possible it is best practices to keep the number of images to a minimum. So, in my line of work I’m building reference images for both client and servers, many of […]
PowerShell is King – HP Scripting Tools for Windows PowerShell v1.1 is released
The 1.1 version supports PowerShell v3 and v4 and that means you can install it on Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2. There is also some added CMDlets plus some minor […]
PowerShell is King–Use PowerShell to find out the file information in a file repository
This morning I was scheduled to install some software, one part of HP Service Pack was not installed, so I made the decision to just install that component, rather then re-running that […]
PowerShell is King – Measure disk performance for IOPS and Transfer rate
The need Since I build datacenters I need to verify performance and you can do that using SQLIO. But there is a lot of parameters, a lot of typing and to make […]
PowerShell is King – Simple resource Metering using PowerShell
This morning the Big Boss sent an email “There is something wrong, it’s slow, fix it.” Yes, Sir, no problem Sir, absolutely Sir (you get the picture). Anyway, I know we could […]
The Deployment Bunny 