Get group membership of an AD User
Why is it that I cannot seem to see the groups a user is a member of when I use the Get-ADUser cmdlet? Surely this a very common question. Let […]
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How to get unique objects while keeping the whole object
Was using Get-View to get a datastore list and I found that it returns duplicate items. I am pretty sure I do not have some 200+ datastores of the same […]
Speed Comparison – Counting ESX Versions
In this Speed Comparison I am reporting on the number of each ESX version I have in my environment to generate a report like the one below. This table is […]
Speed Comparison – VMHost Models
You may know by now that in PowerCLI there are a couple of ways to get information such as ESX host details using predefined cmdlets such as: There is also […]
How to use multiple filters at once with Get-View
Writing a Virtual Machine (VM) report the other day to gather a list of VMs that conform to a known naming standard. Then when I did a count to confirm […]
What are the valid Get-View ViewTypes?
Whilst playing with Get-View today I could not work out what I needed as the ViewType for ESXi hosts. Since VirtualMachine is fairly self explanatory I figured it must be […]
Get VMware PCLI Versions
They also show up in Control Panel (Windows 2003 / XP) -> Add Remove Programs: vCenter Update Manager PowerCLI VMware vSphere PowerCLI or the easiest way Downloads: VMware vSphere PowerCLI […]
Create my user Powershell profile file
Recently moved to a new Windows workstation, new user profile, the works. It still amazes me how quickly you get used to things just being where you want them to […]
Powershell Transcripts
I am learning Powershell and came across a post somewhere, apologies however I do not recall where I found it, where you can capture a transcript of your Powershell session. […]
Is this directory empty
Had this question today and I wasn’t sure how this could be done either. It’s one of those things that you would expect to know but unless you have actually […]