Configure NTP (The lazy way)
NTP, such an important and sometimes forgotten service. Other services rely on it heavily, eg. SSO, yet it can be quite cumbersome to configure if you do it host by… Read more »
ICACLS – Copy and Restore NTFS permissions
ICACLS is a very handy tool for folks who manage file shares. It allows to backup and restore a folder or set of folders/files permissions. There are several ways to… Read more »
vSphere 6.5 now fully supports HTML5!
The long waited HTML5 support is here!!! VMware previously announced that the C# client would no longer ship with the next release of vSphere. That is the case with the… Read more »
vSphere 6.5 and VMFS 6, What’s new?
VMware has introduced great features in 6.5, I’d like to share a few here as well as a quick intro! VMFS 6 4K Native Drives (512E mode) Automatic Space Reclamation… Read more »
View – List user sessions from events database
When i first started managing View environments one of the first questions i had was, “who uses it and how often?” We are talking about view 4.0, no vRealize suite… Read more »
List all your ESXI Hosts and IP Addresses
Single line on how to get all your hosts and ip’s. While very simple it’s been very handy to me, hope it helps you too! Get-VMHost | Sort Name |… Read more »
Find rogue VM by MAC Address
Mistakes do happen and sometimes the network team gets a bit grumpy about VMs doing nasty things, acting like DHCP servers or generating high network loads tend to be on… Read more »
Execute remote commands using powershell
How many times we want to bulk update a registry key, copy/remove files and so on? Pretty often right? Sure you can create a GPO to do it, but if… Read more »
Report on VMs vCPUs, Cores and Sockets
From time to time we want to make sure our VMs are up to spec. So this report might help you. Basically it will output a report CSV with name… Read more »
Change bulk VM Specs
One common need is to modify a group of VMs according to certain parameters. A couple VMs can be done on the GUI but a few hundred or thousand can… Read more »