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Microsoft’s own Jonathan Jordan recently posted a couple good articles over on his VMM blog, one regarding Technical Docs for VMM and the other his own personal PowerShell Cheat Sheet.  If you haven’t seen these yet then you’ll definitely want to check them out: Technical Documentation for SC 2012...

Hi, I am Nitin Bhat, Program Manager on the SCVMM team. Today I am going to provide you with sample PowerShell scripts to leverage our investments made for networking and storage. These scripts would execute against the SCVMM 2012 Beta builds. The best part about exposing the fabric information is the...

Our very own Hector Linares just posted a great article over on his blog talking about how to visualize your storage environment by using a NetApp PowerShell script that generates a Visio diagram with aggregate, volume, and LUN information.  This is something we get asked about a lot so if you want...

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...

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...

When trying to install the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Administrator Console, it may fail during the Prerequisites Check with the following error message: To continue, you must complete all prerequisites. Resolve all error conditions listed below and the click Check Again. For more...

Just an FYI that at 10:00am Eastern time on Thursday, September 10, 2009, we’ll be hosting a webcast focused on Windows Power Shell, Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager: ======== Windows PowerShell is likely to become the automation tool of choice. In this webcast, we provide examples of...

Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you have a bunch of virtual machines (VMs) where the OWNER value is set to UNKNOWN and you wanted to set a value owner without having to modify them one VM at a time?  If so there’s a PowerShell command that we can use to accomplish this: Get-VM...

On Wednesday, May 27 we’ll be hosting a 90 minute webcast on using Windows PowerShell with Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager so mark your calendars now.  If you’ve ever wanted to automate some of those common administrative tasks then this one’s for you.  The overview and a...

Have you ever run into a situation where a failed P2V or other job leaves you with a VM you cannot delete? I have and it usually ends up looking something like this: Recently we’ve had a couple of cases come in where a VM was stuck in the Creating State in the SCVMM 2008 console due to a P2V or...

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