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HP has released Powershell for iLO control with more to come
HP showed off its new, free Scripting Tools for Windows at Microsoft TechEd this week on the expo floor. The scripting tools are specifically Powershell cmdlets for iLO control in the version 1.1...
View ArticleBook Review: Learning PowerCLI
Whether you’re a new user or an advanced user, Learning PowerCLI by Robert van den Nieuwendijk is a fantastic reference to VMware PowerCLI. van den Nieuwendijk covers all the basics to get PowerCLI...
View ArticleEnabling Change Block Tracking (CBT) with PowerCLI Script
Change Block Tracking (CBT) is a technology in VMware used to record all the changed data within a VMDK file so that when backup software runs incremental backups, it knows exactly what has changed and...
View ArticleIntroducing ‘PowerCLI Cookbook’, the step-by-step guide to adopting PowerCLI
If you’ve noticed that my blog posts have been a bit light over the last year, I am happy to finally tell why. Last week, my first book published. It was many months in the making, a lot of effort...
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Force IE 11 Enterprise Mode to update a HTTP-hosted site list
I have been spending a good bit of time implementing and learning about Internet Explorer 11’s Enterprise Mode. This feature is great of the enterprise because it allows administrators to tell IE...
View ArticleUsing PowerShell to compare a registry key before and after a change
So, while deploying IE 11, it became evident that something was happening in the IE settings that affected the display of certain webpages. If we ran an IE Reset in the browser and set all the default...
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HP releases BIOS PowerShell cmdlets
HP has introduced another batch of over 90 PowerShell cmdlets with a focus on BIOS management. The new batch of cmdlets joins two previous batches of cmdlets that allow management of iLO, the onboard...
View ArticlePower disguised as command line – 10 reasons SysAdmins should learn...
I’m a big proponent of learning PowerShell as an administrator, engineer or any other practitioner role. And I think you should learn it. It is the path to the future. The pipeline. I’ve written a...
View ArticleConfiguring system-wide proxy for .NET web applications, including SharePoint
Several years ago, I wrote about setting proxy settings to enable the SharePoint App Store to work when running behind a web proxy and about resolving it when running HTTPS/SSL. Today, I want to...
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Simple iLO Firmware updates with PowerShell
The Hewlett Packard Enterprise iLO PowerShell cmdlets make it extremely easy to update iLO Firmware in mass. The Update-HPiLOFirmware cmdlet is an extremely handy for updating firmware across many...
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