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Friday, September 05, 2008 2:07 PM

PowerShell How To: Add -whatiff to your scripts

Wouldn't it be great if your scripts had a "read-only " mode that would allow you to test them without actually implementing changes? PowerShell call this "-whatif". Jeffrey Snover's Supporting -Whatif, -Confirm, -Verbose – In
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008 11:27 AM

Want Free PowerShell Library for Hyper-V Management?

Check out Jamesone's work at www.codeplex.com/psHyperV Including: Finding a VM Get-VM, Choose-VM , Get-VMHost Connecting to a VM New-VMConnectSession Discovering and manipulating Machine states Get-VMState , Set-VMState , Convert-VmState, Ping-VM , Shutdown-VM
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Wednesday, July 09, 2008 9:33 AM

Patch Tuesday Aftermath: Do You Know Where Your VMs Are?

It is a security best practice recommendation to ensure that all your VMs are fully patched before they are turned on in production. One way you can do this is to create a designated " maintenance host " that is off the production network, but has access
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008 10:57 AM

Beta of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Available

The beta of the next version of VMM (SCVMM 2008), which includes support for Hyper-V, and requires the RC version of Hyper-V, is available today on http://www.connect.microsoft.com/ (requires Windows LiveID sign in and beta program participation). New
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008 6:24 PM

Why Google Can’t Win

Last week Glenn Derene declared in How Social Networking Could Kill Web Search as We Know It “the next generation of Web users may find what they want by using their social network rather than a search algorithm".” Now, this article is really positing
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Friday, April 04, 2008 10:13 AM

PowerShell Learning Resources

Ramping up? Here is what I have found - please share what you have found. To start you off there is a TechNet library node for PowerShell core at: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb978525.aspx "...contains the Help content for conceptual topics,
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008 1:56 PM

New Forum for IT Pro Version of CodeGallery

Add your voice in the new forum for the upcoming IT Pro version of Code Gallery . What would you like to see in the IT Pro version of Code Gallery? What would you NOT like to see? Is it as simple as "PowerShell"? Or is the answer more complicated? Let's
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Thursday, March 13, 2008 5:06 PM

RFP: Help Build the IT Pro version of Code Gallery

Help build the IT Pro version of Code Gallery . Go to the new ITCG Forum and let us know what features and functionality you would like to see in the IT Pro version of Code Gallery. Code Gallery is a community-enabled Web site where you can share developer
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Tuesday, March 04, 2008 11:45 AM

Free Code from Microsoft

IT Pros will be interested in the new Codeplex site on MSDN. Yes, the focus is on serving the needs of Devs, but then, 1/3 of you IT Pros identify as Devs too! A search of their free (Windows LiveID signin required) code examples may turn up things of
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007 11:17 AM

VMM: Ops and Planning and Deployment Content Released

New in the SCVMM library today: Planning a Virtual Machine Manager 2007 Deployment Installing and Configuring Virtual Machine Manager 2007 Tutorial: Getting Started Creating Virtual Machines and Operations You already knew about Virtual Machine Manager
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007 2:32 PM

VMM: Scripted Backup

Chris Wolf published an article on scripting backup of VMs here ( vsbackup.vbs ), based on Jeff Trumbull's VB backup script . His vsbackup.vbs script is shown in the code here: Set objShell = CreateObject ("WScript.Shell") 'Load current date (formatted
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Tuesday, November 06, 2007 3:10 PM

VMM: Scripting Guide Goes Live

The VMM Scripting Guide is now available in the download center. The Virtual Machine Manager Scripting Guide explains how to create Microsoft Windows PowerShell scripts that execute Virtual Machine Manger 2007 commands, and provides more thatn 100 pages
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Wednesday, October 24, 2007 8:51 AM

VMM: Install VM Additions

VMM does not install VM Additions for you. For example, assume you have just converted a physical server (P2V). You need to install the VM Additions. There are two ways: Administrator Console CLI If you have to do this once, you will probably have to
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Wednesday, October 24, 2007 8:30 AM

VMM: Script VM Additions in PS

The following information on scripting the installation of VM Additions using VMM/PowerShell is copied from the VMM Scripting Guide, coming to the SCVMM Library on TechNet soon. InstallVMAdditions.ps1 You can use the InstallVMAdditions.ps1 script to install
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Friday, September 07, 2007 9:45 AM

VMM: Things to do with VM Custom Properties

One of our Beta users recently asked about programmatically setting some of the 10 custom properties for VMs so that it displays some useful information about the VM in the Host view of the VMM Administrator Console. For example: Location of VHD on Channel
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