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Thursday, October 29, 2009 9:56 AM

PowerShell PowerBoots

The good folks at Codeplex, the folks who bring you the free-as-in-beer Hyper-V PowerShell SnapIn also bring you the PowerShell PowerBoots . “ PowerBoots makes it easier for scripters to create graphical user interfaces in PowerShell, exposing much of
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Thursday, October 22, 2009 7:04 PM

DIY Zune Speakers – the IT Pro Way

John shares how to hack your 12V drill to power you Zune speakers . He also tells How to Detect The Virtualization Layer From Within A Guest .
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009 9:19 AM

Hyper-V How To: Free Tools for Hyper-V Management

Free-as-in-beer Codeplex help for Hyper-V admins. PowerShell Management Library for Hyper-V A project to provide a PowerShell management library for Hyper-V Hyper-V Web Manager Hyper-V Web Manager (HVWM) is a web-based management utility for Microsoft
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Monday, October 19, 2009 9:15 AM

Free-as-in-beer IT Pro Scripts

There wasn’t a lot of hoopla last month about the launch of Technet Script Center Gallery , but there should have been. 150+ scripts (just in the first month), free-as-in-beer, tagged and sorted and searchable… They even hand you an evergreen top ten
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Thursday, October 15, 2009 2:20 PM

Free-as-in-beer PowerShellPack

10 modules to help supercharge your Windows PowerShell scripting. The PowerShellPack lets you write user interfaces in PowerShell script, manage RSS feeds, schedule operating system tasks, and much more. Here’s what you get: WPK Create rich user interfaces
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Thursday, October 08, 2009 1:22 PM

Hyper-V How To: PowerShell Cmdlet Reference

Check out the newly released PowerShell cmdlet reference material at: Getting Started Guide for IT Pros Best Practice Analyzer (BPA) Failover Clustering Group Policy Active Directory Active Directory Rights Management Services AppLocker Power Shell Administration
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Friday, October 02, 2009 9:47 AM

The Future of Digital IT Pro Books = Vooks?

An interesting development in the world of publishing launched yesterday – Vooks . Vooks are described on the website as: “You can read your book, watch videos that enhance the story and connect with authors and your friends through social media all on
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Thursday, September 24, 2009 10:26 AM

Windows Server Virtualization Guide Re-Released

The Windows Server Virtualization guide 2.0, a.k.a. the IPD guide for Windows Server Virtualization (updated for Windows Server 2008 R2) has been re-released with updates to include Windows Server 2008 R2. “The reader is guided through the nine-step process
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009 2:12 PM

Welcome Codeplex Foundation

Check out the new free-as-in-beer CodePlex Foundation , an independent legal entity designed to facilitate contributions to open source projects, both from Microsoft and other software vendors and users. Codeplex.com has more than 10,000 free-as-in-beer
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Friday, August 21, 2009 12:38 PM

Hyper-V How To: Check if ICs are Current using Script

Some friends here on the Hyper-V team shared a PowerShell 2.0 script for checking the integration services/integration components to see if they are current in your VMs: # Test if the IC version is up to date param( [string]$vmName = $(throw "Must specify
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Friday, August 21, 2009 12:35 PM

Hyper-V How To: Check Hypervisor Heartbeat using Script

Some friends here on the Hyper-V team shared a PowerShell 2.0 script for checking in the hypervisor is running on a Hyper-V server (host/parent partition): # Check if Hypervisor is running $hypervisor = gwmi –ErrorAction SilentlyContinue Win32_PerfRawData_HvStats_HyperVHypervisor
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Friday, August 21, 2009 12:32 PM

Hyper-V How To: Snapshot a VM using Script

Some friends here on the Hyper-V team shared a PowerShell 2.0 script for taking a snapshot of your VMs: # Take a snapshot of a VM param( [string]$vmName = $(throw "Must specify virtual machine name") ) # Get the virtual machine by name $vm = gwmi -namespace
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Friday, August 21, 2009 12:27 PM

Hyper-V How To: Shut Down VMs using Script

Some friends here on the Hyper-V team shared a PowerShell 2.0 script for shutting down your VMs: # Shutdown a Virtual Machine (requires Integration Components) param( [string]$vmName = $(throw "Must specify virtual machine name") ) # Get the VM by name
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Friday, August 21, 2009 12:15 PM

Hyper-V How To: Set a Custom KVP using Script

Some friends here on the Hyper-V team shared a PowerShell 2.0 script for setting custom KVPs: # Set a Custom KVP param( [string]$vmName = $(throw "Must specify virtual machine name"), [string]$Key = $(throw "Must specify a key"), [string]$Value = $(throw
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Friday, August 21, 2009 12:11 PM

Hyper-V How to: Remove Virtual NIC using Script

Some friends here on the Hyper-V team shared a PowerShell 2.0 script for removing virtual NICs from your VMs: # Remove a NIC (synthetic ethernet port) from a virtual machine param( [string]$vmName = $(throw "Must specify virtual machine name"), [string]$ethPortName
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