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Wednesday, July 23, 2008 5:59 AM

PowerShell and checking management rights.

Something which has come up more than once with the builds I of my PowerShell Hyper-V library has been that by default PowerShell doesn't ask Windows to elevate it's privileges - which, for example, the Microsoft Management Console does. By default it
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Monday, June 30, 2008 11:40 PM

Finding Hyper-V servers in your domain

One of the advantages of having Virtualization integrated with Windows is that the Hyper-V (and in fact Virtual Server 2005) registers itself in active directory so you can discover your servers easily - quite useful if servers start popping up like mushrooms. 
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008 5:43 PM

Hyper-V PowerShell library - now on Codeplex

I've decided to go ahead and post the PowerShell library I have been working on to Codeplex . I wanted to explain various bits of it here before pulling it all together, but that is taking more time than I wanted. I've provided early copies to a few people
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Saturday, June 14, 2008 2:28 PM

Doubts and Powershell, Hyper-V KeyValue pairs and Hash tables.

I've said a number of times that I think technical people are rarely secure in their own abilities; that they have a demon on their shoulder who whispers "You're not really, that good" ... "They'll find you out one day". I was talking
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008 11:58 AM

The Hyper-v API Network interfaces

If you've read my post on adding disks to a Virtual machine , the techniques here should already feel familiar. We create a NIC , and we create a switch port. And then we tell the NIC it is connected to the switch port. Hyper-V creates VM switches which
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008 11:58 AM

The Hyper-V API - Disks

In an earlier post in this series (several posts ago now) I showed how the Msvm_virtualSystemManagementService WMI object can be used to configure resources in Hyper-V, and I started with the easy step of setting memory and CPUs which exist on a freshly
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Sunday, May 11, 2008 2:02 PM

More on the Hyper-V API

In which we see how to set the number of CPUs I started with getting MSVM Computer System objects - which I showed back in February . With these objects I can ask for the state of the VM to be changed to Running, Stopped or Saved. To do things in a proper
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Saturday, May 03, 2008 12:44 PM

Hyper-v Snapshots part 2.

In my last post I explained how snapshots work and gave a little bit of PowerShell for creating a one . In the post before that I talked about creating a generic  choose-tree function. What I wanted was to be able to call Choose-tree  List_Of_Items
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Friday, May 02, 2008 6:40 PM

Hyper-v and Snapshots (Part 1)

We often talk about "rolling back" to a snapshot, but here, some of the snapshots we can apply aren't simply forward or backward, hence Hyper-V talks about applying snapshots. It also talks about Deleting snapshots which causes some confusion.
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Thursday, May 01, 2008 11:27 PM

A little more on PowerShell

I've been showing PowerShell on the roadshow, and Steve warning me about it becoming the "Look-how-clever-I-am-with-PowerShell show". Actually, I quite like the idea of a "Look-how-clever-PowerShell-makes-you show". Working on some
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Friday, April 25, 2008 1:39 AM

Accessing the Hyper-V API: disks.

... In which we create compact, mount, unmount vhds In my last post I said " There are two WMI objects which do most of the work", and mentioned the one named "Msvm_ImageManagementService". I spent last week with  poor Internet
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Saturday, April 19, 2008 5:51 PM

More on the accessing the Hyper-V API from Powershell

... In which we find VMs, them choose one, start them, stop them , and connect to them. I spent more of the last week than I planned looking at Hyper-V and Powershell, and I'm getting dangerously close to calling myself an expert. There are two WMI objects
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Monday, March 24, 2008 3:57 PM

VMware and Powershell

Fair's fair. I've taken VMware to task when they, or their bloggers, post something which I think is false. Or the more blatant I think falsehood, the more outspoken my condemnation. Although it's might make a for a simpler view of the world to be attacking
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Saturday, March 22, 2008 9:36 PM

Powershell Tab expansion

One of the things which annoys me about Powershell is that having (in effect) extended the available commands with functions and filters, Tab expansion doesn't find them. I was aware that people have done some clever things extending Tab-expansion ( Power
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Friday, February 01, 2008 9:30 PM

Getting to grips with Hyper-V's API

It's only 7 months since I first installed Powershell. Hard to believe that last week I saw a copy of the OCS res kit with my name on the cover as a result of the PowerShell scripts I wrote, and worth remembering before criticizing other people's scripts.
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