http://featurewalkthrough.vmware.com/#!/vsphere-6-0 The above is a really useful feature and guide from VMWare
Powershell : Find all active users who havent logged in
Request from a customer. Find me all active ( IE not disabled ) users in a particular OU who have never logged in. “I have a powershell for that” appears to be the default answer for most queries these days … Get-ADUser -Filter {enabled -eq $true} -SearchBase “OU=Eu,DC=eu,DC=notyou,DC=com” -Properties “LastLogonDate” | sort-object -property lastlogondate -descending […]
Powershell : remote machines static dns to DHCP
This will read an input file , and using the WMI object change any statically assigned DNS to DHCP. # grabs the ListofMachines from the CSV $ListofMachines=Get-Content “c:tempmachines.csv” # loop starts here foreach ($machine in $ListofMachines) { #Performs a release ( if needed ! use with care remotely ! ) #Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration -ComputerName […]
Powershell : renew multiple machines DHCP scopes
# grabs the ListofMachines from the CSV $ListofMachines=Get-Content “c:tempmachines.csv” # loop starts here foreach ($machine in $ListofMachines) { #Performs a release ( if needed ! use with care remotely ! ) #Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration -ComputerName $machine | Where { $_.IpEnabled -eq $true -and $_.DhcpEnabled -eq $true} | ForEach-Object -Process {$_.ReleaseDHCPLease()} # query the $machine that […]
Powershell : renew remote IP address
We wrote this at GiraffeIT.com. If you know the remote IP or DNS name of a machine it will help you renew a DHCP lease and flush the DNS. Very useful if you have a remote machine with a scope change and its not being reflected. write-host “—————————–” write-host “DHCP lease renewal + flushDNS” […]