Reporting on your Windows Server backup

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…

Upgrading ESXi 6.0 hosts with PowerCLI

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…

SCCM – Duplicate Device Records

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 – looking up HP warranty information – part 2

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

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…