Script Center Gallery Hits

The new TechNet Script Center Gallery has a useful RSS feed of most active submitted scripts. This help me find two useful ones:

• Login monitoring : Connects to a security log and retrieves successful login events and returns time, user, and type of login
• List all groups in the domain and all members of the groups : Output to a text file in tab separated value format "group name, group type, member name, member type" with all domain groups and all their members.

There’s also a bunch I’ve uploaded for Hyper-V/Hyper-V Server and VPC/VS:

1. PS - Compact VHD : PS 2.0 script to compact VHDs.
2. PS Script to Check Hypervisor Heartbeat Checks if Hypervisor is running.
3. PS Check IC Version PS 2.0 script to Check if VM Integration components/integration services are up to date.
4. PS - Snapshot a VM PS 2.0 script to take a snapshot of a VM.
5. PS - Shut Down VM PS 2.0 Script to Shut Down VMs.
6. PS - Set a Custom KVP PS 2.0 script to set a custom VM KVP.
7. PS - Remove vNIC  PS 2.0 script to remove a virtual NIC from a VM.
8. VB - NICHA VB scrip to monitor the NIC used by a virtual machine in a cluster.
9. PS - Modify VLAN Settings PS 2.0 script to modify virtual networking settings on your virtual machines.
10. PS - Merge VHDs PS 2.0 script to merge VHDs.
11. PS - Loopback Mount a VHD PS 2.0 script to loopback mount a VHD.
12. PS - List VMs PS script to list VMs from Thomas Lee.
13. PS - Get Intrinsic KVPs PS 2.0 script to get intrinsic KVP.
14. PS - Get a Custom KVP PS 2.0 script to Get a Custom KVP.
15. PS - List Snapshots PS 2.0 script to list VM Snapshots.
16. PS - Expand VHD PS 2.0 script to expand VHDs.
17. PS - Delete VM PS 2.0 do delete VMs.
18. PS - Create VSwitch PS 2.0 script to create a virtual switch.
19. Detect VM Need to detect if something is running inside a VM? John Kelbley shares how, read more at: http://blogs.technet.com/tonyso/archive/2009/08/20/hyper-v-how-to-detect-if-you-are-inside-a-vm.aspx
20. PS - Create VM PS 2.0 script to create VMs.
21. PS - Create Fixed VHD PS 2.0 script to create fixed VHDs
22. PS - Create Dynamic VHD PS 2.0 script to create dynamic VHDs.
23. PS - Create Differencing VHD PS 2.0 script to create a differencing VHD.
24. PS - Convert VHD PS 2.0 script to covert VHDs.
25. PS - Connect Switch to VM PS 2.0 script to connect a virtual switch to a VM.
26. PS - Connect Switch to NIC PowerShell 2.0 script for connecting a virtual switch to a physical NIC on the HOST.
27. Reset MAC Address Script to reset MAC addresses on VMs.
28. PS - Change VM State PS 2.0 script to change state on VMs.
29. PS - Change ISO PS 2.0 script to change the ISO in the virtual DVD Drive.
30. PS - Apply Snapshot PS 2.0 script to apply snapshots to VMs.
31. VBScript to Set Serial Number for a VM Example script for setting the serial number of a Virtual PC 2007 virtual machine.

And don’t forget jamesone’s excellent PowerShell management Library for Hyper-V. Also free, as-in-beer.

You will also want to look at the Windows Management Framework: PS 2.0, WinRM 2.0 and BITS 4.0.