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Windows 7 XP Mode Easy Setup

As I started to use Windows 7 as my primary OS I was very impressed at how well it runs as a whole. Far faster than Vista, prettier and more functional than XP. Oh, and PowerShell 2.0 of course! Out of all the apps I’ve installed so far I’ve only found one [...]

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VMware + PowerShell = AWESOMENESS!!!

VMware + PowerShell = AWESOMENESS!!!

In my 2nd “real” powershell script I have decided to explore the sheer awesomeness that is PowerCLI.  Having recently upgraded a client to vSphere I suddenly had a bunch of VMs with outdated tools that needed to be upgraded including one host with 60 VM’s (that’s a lot of right-clicking and installing tools…).  So, PowerShell [...]

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Learning PowerShell a.k.a. “How to change 50 local admin passwords in 2 minutes”

Learning PowerShell a.k.a. “How to change 50 local admin passwords in 2 minutes”

When someone leaked a local administrator account password to roughly 50 web servers in our hosted environment my first reaction was @#$%*&^! because they’re not on a domain and I knew that meant I would be spending the next hour changing passwords. So, I decided that I can’t put it off anymore… I need [...]

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How to build a Quad-Core Xeon VMware ESXi Server for less than an ‘82 Civic!

Not long ago I was in need of a decent Virtual Lab machine and my only budget was whatever I could get from  selling off some old computer / networking equipment that was just taking up shelf space in the laundry room and seriously annoying my wife.  The really tricky part was also meeting the following criteria:

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