Archive for the ‘Scripting’ Category

Installing and configuring PowerCLI

Posted: 21st September 2011 by neil in Powershell, VCAP-DCA

In this article i am going to go over the steps to install and configure PowerCLI to run on my virtual center server. This will enable me to interrogate all the virtual machines and VMware environment by using Powershell. 1) The first step is to download Powershell v2.0 from Microsoft. Note this is only applicable [...]

Recently I wanted to verify that I had a certain hotfix installed on my server. I thought i could see if there was a nice and easy way in Powershell to do this and there was. The cmdlet get-hotfix will retrieve the information you need. PS C:\Users\Administrator> Get-HotFix Source        Description      HotFixID      InstalledBy          InstalledOn ——        ———–      [...]

I was recently playing about in Exchange 2010 in preparation for my exam in a few days time and I noticed i was getting an error when i ran the test-owaconnectivity commandlet. I error message i was recieving was: WARNING: Test user ‘extest_b648a1a700f64′ isn’t accessible, so this cmdlet won’t be able to test Client Access [...]