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re: Managing Hyper-V Replica from PowerShell

Stephen Rickels — Fri, 10 May 2013 12:27:16 GMT

Brilliant. This was the exact information I needed to answer a number of questions and form a clear uderstanding. Thanks for shharing the information.

re: Configuring Kerberos Constrained Delegation for Hyper-V Management

G Feng — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 16:04:55 GMT

Hi,

Is mgmt1 in the domain? What happens if it is not a domain machine?

For example mgmt1 is not domain machine , run migration via WEB Scripting Locator from any language such as java, python and powershell scripts.

G Feng

re: WakeUp-Machines – A PowerShell script for Wake On LAN

Debbie — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 20:40:28 GMT

Trying to find a way to WOL via a specific port. We have an issue at some of our locations with the default port. Want to use one we know is open.

re: WakeUp-Machines – A PowerShell script for Wake On LAN

Caroline — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 00:29:54 GMT

Hello,

I am totally new to all this scripting business.

I would like to automate this script, ie run it without any input from me. So far, I have found a batch script that will run it without having to input the csv filename but I can't get it to automate so that I don't need to type in text to send as the wake up call. How can I do this?

regards,

Caroline

re: Competitive Advantages of Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V over VMware vSphere 5.1

Jean — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 09:47:46 GMT

Yes, 8000 VM's in a cluster!

re: Competitive Advantages of Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V over VMware vSphere 5.1

jain — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 09:42:59 GMT

8000 cluster???

re: VMRCplus 1.8.0 is available

Imran — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 00:58:42 GMT

I am facing the same issue as JMFreeman. Anyone come up with a solution?

re: VMC to Hyper-V Import Tool Available

Pedro — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 16:09:33 GMT

This doesn't work for Hyper-V in windows 8. Why didn't microsoft provided a tool for us to migrate our Virtual machines to Hyper-V ? Now I can't install Virtual PC in my Windows 8 and I can't import my ancient virtual PC machines into Hyper-V. GREAT!!!

re: WakeUp-Machines – A PowerShell script for Wake On LAN

2Keep4U — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 23:50:44 GMT

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<# ---- For security reason, the code is fully commented ----

# Verify if we support IPv6 or IPv4

if([System.Net.Sockets.Socket]::OSSupportsIPv6)

{

Write-Output "Your system supports IPv6"

# Create a new communication channel using the UDP protocol

$netUDPClient = New-Object System.Net.Sockets.UdpClient([System.Net.Sockets.AddressFamily]::InterNetworkV6)

# Connect to the network using port 9 (this is the standard for WOL) on the multicast "All routers" address

# To send to multicast address "All hosts", use address "FF02::1" instead

$netUDPClient.Connect([System.Net.IPAddress]::Parse("FF02::2"), 9)

}

elseif([System.Net.Sockets.Socket]::OSSupportsIPv4)

{

Write-Output "Your system supports IPv4"

# Create a new communication channel using the UDP protocol

$netUDPClient = New-Object System.Net.Sockets.UdpClient([System.Net.Sockets.AddressFamily]::InterNetwork)

# Connect to the network using port 9 (this is the standard for WOL) on the broadcast address

$netUDPClient.Connect(([System.Net.IPAddress]::Broadcast),9)

}

else

{

Throw "ERROR: Neither IPv4, nor IPv6 are supported !"

}

# Send the magic packet to the network

[void]$netUDPClient.Send($szPacket, $szPacket.Length)

# Release managed and unmanaged resources

[void]$netUDPClient.Dispose()

# Remove used variables

Remove-Variable netUDPClient, szPacket, szMACAddress

---- For security reason, the code is fully commented ----

Cheers,

Didier

re: WakeUp-Machines – A PowerShell script for Wake On LAN

2Keep4U — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 23:49:12 GMT

Hi there,

Another script for Wake On LAN (WOL). Supports both IPv4 and IPv6. Can be enhanced with a lot of other features such as reading files and user input. Works on my home network, but not tested on a more complex environment. If you test it, please share feedback. Thanks.

<# ---- For security reason, the code is fully commented ----

# Consider also possibility to read / parse an external file, or a user interface to collect addresses

# Consider possibility to read from ARP tables, DHCP routing tables, DNS lists, Domain Controller, etc.

$szMACAddress = [string]"AA-BB-CC-DD-EE-FF"

$szMACAddress = [string]"AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF"

$szMACAddress = [string]"AA BB CC DD EE FF"

$szMACAddress = [string]"AABBCCDDEEFF"

<# ---- For security reason, the code is fully commented ----

$szMACAddress = [string]"AA-BB-CC-DD-EE-FF"

# The "Magic Packet" starts with six pairs of 0xFF values

[Byte[]]$szPacket = [Byte[]] (,0xFF * 6)

# MAC addresses are defined by six pairs of hexadecimal values that could be separated by a dash (-),

# a column (:), or a space ( ); the address could be also twelve hexadecimal values without separator

if([Regex]::IsMatch($szMACAddress, '[A-Fa-f0-9]{2}\p{Pd}[A-Fa-f0-9]{2}\p{Pd}[A-Fa-f0-9]{2}\p{Pd}[A-Fa-f0-9]{2}\p{Pd}[A-Fa-f0-9]{2}\p{Pd}[A-Fa-f0-9]{2}'))

{

# MAC address has the form 'xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx'

$szPacket += (($szMACAddress.split('-') | foreach {[byte] ('0x' + $_)}) * 16)

}

elseif([Regex]::IsMatch($szMACAddress, '[A-Fa-f0-9]{2}:[A-Fa-f0-9]{2}:[A-Fa-f0-9]{2}:[A-Fa-f0-9]{2}:[A-Fa-f0-9]{2}:[A-Fa-f0-9]{2}'))

{

# MAC address has the form 'xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx'

$szPacket += (($szMACAddress.split(':') | foreach {[byte] ('0x' + $_)}) * 16)

}

elseif([Regex]::IsMatch($szMACAddress, '[A-Fa-f0-9]{2} [A-Fa-f0-9]{2} [A-Fa-f0-9]{2} [A-Fa-f0-9]{2} [A-Fa-f0-9]{2} [A-Fa-f0-9]{2}'))

{

# MAC address has the form 'xx xx xx xx xx xx'

$szPacket += (($szMACAddress.split(' ') | foreach {[byte] ('0x' + $_)}) * 16)

}

elseif([Regex]::IsMatch($szMACAddress, '[A-Fa-f0-9]{12}'))

{

# MAC address has no separator between pairs of hexadecimal values

$szPacket += for ($j = 0; $j -le 15; $j++) { for ($i = 0; $i -le ($szMACAddress.Length -1); $i += 2) {[byte] ('0x' + $szMACAddress[$i] + $szMACAddress[$i+1])}}

}

else

{

# MAC address format is not recognized

Throw "ERROR: MAC Address is not recognized !"

}

---- For security reason, the code is fully commented ----

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