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Pimping your Powershell Profile
If you work on multiple systems and need to use powershell to manage them but they all have their own separate installation it can drive you mad having so many different console shortcuts to launch. I...
View ArticleGetting VM Time Zone settings with PowerCLI and WMI
VM performance troubleshooting is something every VM Admin needs to do. Often these can be related to agents running within a VM and often these are set to run at a particular local time. VDI...
View ArticleOutput Powershell console to a file using Transcript
Sometimes it’s the simple things that really make a difference. Often when writing any script you have to decide whether to output stuff to the screen or to a file. What if you need to do both?...
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Windows 7 plays nicely with AMD to Intel conversion
My home PC died an unceremonious death last week. No fanfare, nothing dramatic…it just wouldn’t boot. I went through the usual troubleshooting. BIOS would load, it looked like everything was...
View ArticleHow slim is your OS build? VDI’s biggest loser!
Going virtual is all about sharing resources. You are no longer constrained by one server or workstation running on one physical piece of hardware. The benefit is less physical kit to look after and...
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VMworld Europe Independent #vBrownBag Tech Talk Sessions
The official VMworld Barcelona session catalogue was huge and full of VMware sanctioned content. However running in parallel there was a fantastic community run fringe event. The #vBrownBag guys...
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Upgrading Windows 2008 R2 editions from the command line
I had always thought you couldn’t update Windows Server editions from one to another without a reinstall as allegedly the base software wasn’t the same even though we all knew it was really just a file...
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Optimise your VDI image with a new OS optimisation tool
VMware has released a new Fling called the VMware OS Optimization Tool for Windows 7. One of my bugbears with the whole VDI industry is the I in “VDI”, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure. Many people often...
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