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Manage Your vSphere Environment Using PowerShell
Automation is the “king of the road” when it comes to managing today’s fast-paced infrastructure. VMware vSphere is an environment that greatly benefits from automation and allows organizations to lower the TCO of the environment, scale more easily, and have…
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VMware PowerCLI Download and Install Connect to vCenter
If you are looking for THE way to automate VMware vSphere, VMware PowerCLI is the way to do it. PowerCLI is the defacto standard for interacting with VMware vSphere from an automation standpoint and is super easy to get installed…
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Easy Fix for DCOM Permissions Errors with PowerShell
There is no doubt that in working with various applications, you have ran into issues with Distributed COM or DCOM as it is more commonly known. DCOM can be a bear to troubleshoot and resolve issues with in an environement…
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Export and Import DNS Zone with PowerShell from One Server to Another
PowerShell makes working with various core services extremely easy and allows quickly and easily performing tasks that are labor intensive with relative ease. Recently, I ran across the need to copy a DNS zone from one lab to another lab…
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How To Query a MySQL Database with PowerShell
Recently, I had a project where I needed to query a MySQL database with PowerShell to perform an automated task to pull data and then trigger from the returned rows if any from MySQL. I had found various scripts that…
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PowerCLI Mass Clone and Rename VMware VMs from One vCenter Folder to Another
Automation is king of IT operations today. It is extremely cool and rather fun to be able to hack out a few lines of PowerShell or PowerCLI code in the vSphere realm and perform massive operations that would possibly take…
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VMware vSphere PowerCLI 11.0 Released with New Features and Updating
Automation in the VMware vSphere environment is certainly one of the most exciting aspects of VMware vSphere administration and is required to operate environments at scale. Those that are interested or using automation in VMware vSphere environments are no doubt…
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Automate VMware vSphere Documentation with PowerShell and PowerCLI
Let’s face it, documentation is something that none of us get too excited about. We all know it is a necessary evil, and you are glad when you have it, but if you are like me, you hate to have…
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VMware HTML5 Web Client Fling PowerCLI Code Capture
Recently, I had seen a seen a blog post on the VMware PowerCLI blog about a new feature found in the latest release of the VMware HTML5 Web Client Fling that allows capturing PowerCLI code from your actions in vCenter…
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Installing PowerShell Core PowerCLI 10.0 in Windows 10
Microsoft has taken PowerShell to the next level in its GA release of PowerShell Core. What is PowerShell Core? It is the cross-platform version of PowerShell that is based on .NET Core which is open source as opposed to the…
