Get VDI Capacity Information from the Horizon View ADAM Database
🏷️ vmware-horizon-view, powershell
Quick script to assist with capacity planning.
AppSense and VMware View Horizon Linked Clones
The move from persistent physical desktops, to non-persistent linked clones (with a separate user personalisation layer) requires rethinking the way in which machines are configured and software is deployed. The challenge is to deliver a consistent, highly available platform…
Displaying vSphere disk properties (including provisioning & persistence)
I was doing some tidying of old scripts and came across something I thought it might be useful, so I tidied it up and added some documentation.
Accessing SCSM 2012 using PowerShell (without SMLets)
🏷️ powershell, microsoft-windows
I wanted to use PowerShell to create a simple report of open (active & pending) incidents in System Center Service Manager 2012, but the only examples I could find online used the SMLets. Sometimes this wasn't obvious, but soon became apparent when PowerShell choked over CMDLets…
Remove machine objects from VMWare View's ADAM database with PowerShell
🏷️ vmware-horizon-view, powershell
Note: 26/02/14 - I've updated this script to accept pipeline input and work a little more efficiently when removing multiple machines.
Invoke a PowerShell script directly from Subversion
🏷️ powershell
I've been thinking about doing something like this for a while. By adding this to PowerShell profiles, I can ensure that other people who use my scripts/functions are using the latest versions by having them run directly from a Subversion URL. This negates the requirement for…
Using AppSense to deliver Microsoft App-V 5 applications to non-persistent
I'm currently working on user-centric application delivery to non-persistent VDI desktops. The rationale for this is that the more applications which can be delivered dynamically, the fewer pools we need to provision. This suits applications like Microsoft Project and Visio,…
Get logon timings from AppSense client log
🏷️ powershell
I'm doing logon tuning just now for non-persistent VDI desktops - seeing long it takes to deploy App-V packages on a per-user basis to a generic desktop based on AD group membership. To assist with the tuning, I thought it would be useful to write a quick PowerShell function to…
Server Uptime (2013 Scripting Games practice)
🏷️ powershell, microsoft-windows
Note: This script will not work on PowerShell Core.
PowerShell function to check whether a computer is responding to Ping
🏷️ powershell
Note: This function will not work on PowerShell Core. But you should probably be using Test-Connection regardless.