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Get VMware Disk Usage with Powershell

By On December 10, 2008 · 78 Comments

Using VMware seriously requires a lot of (shared) storage. This kind of storage (on a SAN for instance) is quite expensive. So you might want to check if you are wasting a lot of this space. When you look at the storage in VMware, it consists of multiple abstraction layers. A [...]

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Oneliner: Get Logged on Users with Powershell

By On November 18, 2008 · 7 Comments

Check out this oneliner/function! Provide a computer name and it will return the logged on users.

function Get-MyLoggedOnUsers
{
 param([string]$Computer)
 Get-WmiObject Win32_LoggedOnUser -ComputerName $Computer | Select Antecedent -Unique | %{“{0}{1}” -f $_.Antecedent.ToString().Split(‘”‘)[1], $_.Antecedent.ToString().Split(‘”‘)[3]}
}

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Listing share permissions for remote shares

By On November 11, 2008 · 16 Comments

Now that you can list shares, how about something a bit more challenging?

Let’s take a look at share permissions. I tried using subinacl.exe to get these for a remote share. But it turns out that it does not always give trustworthy results. It showed read permissions for a share with Read and Change permissions. [...]

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Finding Shares with Powershell

By On November 11, 2008 · 15 Comments

Here’s a handy little function I wrote for enumerating all shares on a remote server:

function Get-MyShares
{
 param([string]$Server)
 $Shares = Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Share -ComputerName $Server
 $output = @()
 ForEach ($Share in $Shares)
 {
  $fullpath = “\\{0}\{1}” -f $server, $share.name
  Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -InputObject $Share [...]

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