powershell
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Powershell
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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Powershell
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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Powershell
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
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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Windows
Kill a Windows service quick tip
Just a quick tip from the trenches that I have used numerous times over the years to deal with problematic Windows services. Let’s take a look at the “kill a Windows service quick tip”. You may have a service that…
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Windows
Set Audit Policy Powershell
Scripting mundane setup tasks is essential in today’s world of server/workstation provisioning in the fast paced Virtualization environments we as system administrators manage. If you are like me, you may have googled “set audit policy powershell” to find a quick…
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VMware
PowerCLI change network label for all VMs in a folder
Just a quick blurb and a useful one liner used to change all the Network labels for all virtual machines that existed in a vCenter folder. I had a situation in a lab where I imported numerous server VMs from…
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Powershell
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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Powershell
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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Windows 10
Windows 10 Networking Powershell commandlets
With Windows 10 we have all the goodness of powershell baked into the operating system and with that, there are several really great powershell commandlets that can be used to take control of the networking components of your Windows 10…
