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Powershell Oneliner #5

By On August 15, 2008 · 1 Comment

Why I love Powershell:

Yesterday I needed to create an overview of people, their department name and office location. I wanted to have this list in Excel. But all I had was a textfile with their names. A tedious task to fill in all this information, one might think. Luckily, I know

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Powershell Oneliner #4

By On August 6, 2008 · 3 Comments

Yesterday, alanrenouf asked the following question on the VMware Community VI Toolkit forums:

Is there a way (preferably a one-liner) to get a list of vm’s and the number of snapshots per vm?

Here’s a script that will get that info:

$VC = Connect-VIServer $VCServerName
$vms = Get-VM
$myCol [...]

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Powershell Oneliner #3

By On July 11, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Today’s Powershell Oneliner is one to make your manager happy:

Get-QADComputer -sizeLimit 0 |
  Group-Object -Property OSName,OSServicePack -noelement |
  Sort-Object -Property Count -Descending |
  Format-Table -Property Count,Name

 All this simple oneliner does, is query Active Directory for computer objects and group them by OS Name and Service Pack. The output looks something [...]

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Powershell Oneliner #2

By On July 10, 2008 · Leave a Comment

A quick way to check if any of your ESX server’s CPU load reached “red” levels recently:

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PowerShell Oneliner #1

By On March 28, 2008 · 1 Comment

One of the great things about Windows PowerShell, is that it allows us IT Administrators to write relatively simple, single-line commands to retrieve specific information about our servers and present it just the way we want. I will be posting my own PowerShell Oneliners frequently and explain how they work.

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