by Michael Simmons | Apr 17, 2017 | Windows PowerShell (Legacy)
The situation: You want to ensure that an advanced setting is consistently applied through all of your VMs. Getting Advanced Settings from all of your VMs… almost You run this command in PowerCLI to find out which VMs are configured the way you want, and which...
by Michael Simmons | Mar 8, 2017 | PowerShell (Modern), Windows PowerShell (Legacy)
I’m sure that you’ve seen plenty of scripts that set a path like “C:\temp” for logs, files, and other outputs. But did you know that it’s actually very easy to add a pop up directory UI in PowerShell that gives a choice of where to save...
by Michael Simmons | Mar 6, 2017 | Windows PowerShell (Legacy)
If you’re getting ready to install the System Center Operations Manager web console, there are several prerequisites that you need to install before you’re ready for it. Luckily, if you’re comfortable with PowerShell this becomes SO easy, and...
by Michael Simmons | Feb 19, 2017 | Windows PowerShell (Legacy)
Finding out which .NET Framework Version is currently installed is not something that most people think of every day. However, if you are a Windows Server Administrator managing web servers that run .NET web applications, then making sure that your servers are...
by Michael Simmons | Sep 16, 2015 | PowerShell (Modern)
Alright, another quick lesson in finding XML. You see, an XML node like this: <server name=”DomainController1″></server> Uses the name as an attribute. I just wrote a post about how to search XML by node attribute. But that won’t do you a...
