Powershell – ConfigMgr

Testing Script Runtime Service for vSphere – part 2

1 februari 2021 PowerCli Powershell VMware

In the first part of this blog, I installed the Script Runtime Service and checked if it was installed correctly.In this second part, I will give you a walkthrough of how to run a simple script. In order to successfully run a script, you must have some understanding of how…

Reporting on your Windows Server backup

18 januari 2021 Powershell Script Solutions

A while ago I blogged about backing up my virtual home lab for free with Veeam Backup & Replication 10. The server on which I installed this is a Windows Server 2016 server that is also used for backing up my home PCs and laptops. And on this server I…

Testing Script Runtime Service for vSphere – part 1

7 januari 2021 PowerCli Powershell VMware

Last year I tweeted about the introduction of the Script Runtime Service and now I decided to give it a try. The reason for this is that I think this is something we all waited for: a central script host. At first, I thought this was an evolution of the…

Upgrading ESXi 6.0 hosts with PowerCLI

3 april 2020 PowerCli Powershell Script VMware

The last step in my migration project was to actually upgrade the hosts to a supported version. This means that all hosts are upgraded to 6.7 except for those hosts that are a bit to old and only support 6.5. For the upgrade, I used Update Manager to store the…

Migrate Cisco Nexus 1000V to VDS with PowerShell – part 2

15 oktober 2019 PowerCli Powershell Script VMware

In a previous post I talked about the migration of a Cisco Nexus 1000V virtual switch to a VMware Distributed Virtual Switch. During the testing of the script I ran into some issues that were related to the underlying Cisco platform. But then I already made the decision to do…

Migrate Cisco Nexus 1000V to VDS with PowerShell

9 oktober 2019 PowerCli Powershell Script VMware

With the End of General Support (March 12, 2020) getting closer and closer I was asked to perform a migration and upgrade of a vSphere 6 environment. The plan was to install a new 6.7 VCSA and then migrate the hosts as-is to that new platform. After that the hosts…

SCCM – Duplicate Device Records

6 juni 2017 ConfigMgr Powershell SCCM Script

A few days back I was investigating duplicate device records in SCCM. Basically, there are two major reasons for duplicate device records: Reinstalling a device Active Directory delta discovery For the first reason SCCM has some built-in solutions. In the Hierarchy Settings there’s an option for conflicting client records. This…

Powershell – Get SCCM Client info from WMI

6 juni 2017 ConfigMgr Powershell SCCM Script

Last week I was busy with a deployment and this week the question came up “does every server have a SCCM client installed”. My first reaction was “yes” but after a close look at our SCCM sites I wasn’t sure. The problem I had was that there are multiple AD…

Powershell – looking up HP warranty information – part 2

13 mei 2017 Powershell Script

Earlier I published a post about retrieving warranty information for HP hardware. However, the end date that is returned by the script might not always be correct! Let me explain… What the script does is executing a SOAP request to a website. The outcome of that request is XML data…

Powershell – looking up HP warranty information

8 mei 2017 Powershell Script

Today I wanted to get an overview of the warranty information of our ESX hosts. All the hosts are added to a HP Insight Remote Support server so the warranty information is available. However, using this information from powershell is a bit more challenging. Fortunately I found a powershell module…