🏷️ powershell
I've been doing some work with IBM WebSphere MQ recently. Specifically I've been helping to create a (temporary) reporting and monitoring tool which will periodically check channel status and depth of certain queues. While the application has it's own command-line utility (MQSC)…
One-liner PowerCLI to output a list of machine names and screen resolutions.
🏷️ vmware-horizon-view, powershell
I was at a training course last week and it was mentioned briefly on one of the slides that PCOIP session statistics were available via WMI. After a quick Google, I found MyVirtualCloud's page, which details the class, and property names.
🏷️ powershell
One of the great things about PowerShell is its ability to easily export objects to HTML, which - with a little CSS - makes it straightforward to create great-looking reports. But static lists of data aren't enough any more, the people demand interactivity.
🏷️ powershell, microsoft-windows
You've probably noticed that when you double-click on a PowerShell script, it is opened for editing rather than being run. This is useful from a security standpoint, and while administrators have no problem opening up the shell and running the script, you've probably made…
As we are constantly creating, moving, renaming and deleting machines, it's difficult enough to keep track of machines I have deployed myself; never mind keeping track of what the other team members are doing.
I haven't been posting too much here recently I'm afraid. A lot of the things that I'm currently working on are pretty specific to the environment here, and are not particularly useful (or indeed, interesting) to anyone else.
If, like me, you work with non-persistent virtual machines on Windows domains, you will be familiar with your machines becoming periodically disconnected from the domain. This usually manifests itself in the following error message when you attempt to log on:-
🏷️ powershell
We've had an ongoing problem with "Sequencing" machines for Microsoft Application Virtualisation (formerly SoftGrid). The virtual machine template is correctly set up with a secondary drive set to Q:\ (the drive letter is integral to the sequencing process). However, when the…
We've started our first "proper" implementation of Linked Clones in our vSphere 4 environment. While we've done some limited proof-of-concept work, this is the first project to be entirely deployed using Linked Clones. The objective is to reduce the space used by our training…