Our very own Jonathan Jordan posted a great script that makes the job of keeping your Hosts and SCVMM Servers up to date simple. I pasted a short intro to his post below:
As a Microsoft Support Professional I’ve learned that Windows Update is the best way to keep SCVMM healthy. The time to install updates is not when there is a problem, but before there is a problem. A proactive approach prevents issues.
For all the details and to download the script see:
VMMUpdate
J.C. Hornbeck | System Center Knowledge Engineer
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Our very own Jonathan Jordan has another great post on his blog about PowerShell and SCVMM. If you happened to miss it I have an intro and link below:
PowerShell. You keep meaning to learn it. You just need a push. Maybe a CubeNote (Cheat Sheet) would help.
Think about this… every single command you perform in the SCVMM Admin Console can be performed in PowerShell. There isn’t a single thing in the Admin Console that is not available by interactive command or script. In fact, there are many things that can be done only in PowerShell. Further, when scripts (.ps1 files) are saved to the Library they are available to run immediately by right clicking them and selecting ‘Run Script.’ I published a script last year that determines which network settings on which Host are causing your virtual machines to show up as ‘Unsupported Cluster Configuration.’ Cool huh? That article is here. Below I’ve right clicked the script to show other available options.
You can continue reading here.
Our very own Mike Briggs just posted some great info on how to change ownership of virtual machines (VMs) via PowerShell with System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2:
Just wanted to make everyone aware of a method to change the owner field of multiple VMs via Powershell, written by a colleague, Dave Guenthner. This is a great method to use if you need to change the owner field of a lot of VMs at once.
You can get all the details on Mike's blog here.