Archive for the ‘Powershell’ Category

Posted by Pete on 04 / 15 / 09

PowerShell Hyper-V/SCVMM Webcast

On April 23, 2009 Marco Shaw, Darin Pendergraft, and Peter Zerger are giving a TechNet webcast on “Using Windows PowerShell with Hyper-V and Virtual Machine Manager“: Windows... read more

Posted by Scott Weisler on 04 / 02 / 09

Update: New VM from Template Powershell Script

A couple of you reported that you were having trouble running the script. I downloaded and found a smart quote in the output, updated and uploaded. Tests fine now. Download the ... read more

Posted by Pete on 02 / 23 / 09

Part 5: Exploring Discovery Data with the OpsMgr Command Shell - Virtual Machine Inventory

Previous Installments Part 1 - Powershell Tip: Retrieving an inventory of object classes and descriptions from OpsMgr 2007 Part 2 - OpsMgr 2007: Exploring your discovered i... read more

Posted by Pete on 02 / 05 / 09

SCCM 2007: How to monitor ConfigMgr inboxes using Powershell

The inbox folders in the \inboxes subdirectory of the ConfigMgr 2007 install directory temporarily store files before they are processed to the site database or transferred to anot... read more

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OpsMgr Command Shell samples from Southeast SMUG meeting

  The Southeast Management User Group had a meeting this week, and one of the speakers (Scott Moss) posted a pretty long list of one-liners. If you're not Powershell inclined,... read more

Posted by Pete on 01 / 20 / 09

Powershell Tip: Automate periodic testing of connector availability in OpsMgr 2007

A while back, I received an email request from an admin using our Notifcation Test MP to trigger alerts not only to test end-to-end notification, but to test alert forwarding thro... read more

Posted by Marco Shaw on 01 / 12 / 09

PowerShell Challenge 2009—Challenge #1 - Modifying Discovery Frequency with Powershell

I wrote a blog post late in December 2008 (HERE) where I challenged anyone to come up with a Operations Manager scenario that I wasn’t able to automate using PowerShell.  I’m ... read more

Posted by Pete on 01 / 03 / 09

OpsMgr Powershell TIP: Desktop Shortcut for Enabling Group Maintenance Mode

Ever wished you had a desktop shortcut you could use to put groups in and out of maintenance mode whenever you needed to? I think simple prompts for input make a script more conven... read more

Posted by Pete on 12 / 30 / 08

Powershell in SCVMM 2008: Retrieving SCVMM Cmdlets

I've been working with Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (SCVMM) quite a bit, and wanted to share some tips around optimization and automation, as well as some... read more

Posted by Marco Shaw on 12 / 19 / 08

PowerShell one-liner for Christmas…and a challenge for the new year

How about a PowerShell 1-liner to determine if a particular system is a virtual machine? >get-monitoringclass|where{$_.displayname -eq "Windows Server"}| `   get-monitoringob... read more

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