Monthly Archives: July 2013

Reviewing DNS logs with PowerShell

Posted on July 6, 2013 by brian.wuchner

I recently helped out on a project where DNS services were being moved to different hosts with new IP addresses. After updating the DHCP scope options and static DNS configuration settings on all servers, the team turned on DNS logging … Continue reading →

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Powering on a virtual machine from the command line

Posted on July 5, 2013 by brian.wuchner

I recently made a post about powering on virtual machines in bulk using PowerCLI. That process worked well to power on VMs in vCenter, but what if you need to turn on vCenter? In some cases (lockdown mode, firewall rules, … Continue reading →

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Quickly power on virtual machines with PowerCLI Get-View

Posted on July 5, 2013 by brian.wuchner

I recently had a need to power on a lot of virtual machines in a specific order. I was given several text files each numbered with a startup sequence. At a specific time I would be given a number and … Continue reading →

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