I have many scripts that write information into Active Directory. Sometimes I need to do the opposite — remove or blank out an attribute. All of the following examples will require a distinguishedName value in AD, so I will set a common variable here. You will need a valid distinguishedName…
In my most recent series on vCenter Scheduled Tasks with PowerCLI, I have provided three functions…Get-VIScheduledTasks, Get-VMScheduledSnapshots, and New-VMScheduledSnapshot. To complete the series, I have a final function Remove-VIScheduledTask. I don’t really see the need for this one, as you can easily bulk select scheduled tasks in the vCenter UI…
In a recent post New vCenter Scheduled Tasks with PowerCLI (Part 1), I provided two functions that return information related to vCenter Scheduled Tasks. This was my first step towards creating a PowerShell function that I could run to create scheduled snapshot tasks. This post will cover the create scheduled…
I work with a lot of scheduled tasks. Typically, these tasks run powershell scripts from the Windows Task Scheduler. However, when working with simple VMware tasks (like creating snapshots right before a maintenance window) I like to use the Scheduled Tasks feature from right inside vCenter. The other day I…
I had an interesting request the other day. A co-worker had two CSV files containing mailbox information from the same Exchange server, but from different parts of the day. He wanted to know if there was any way to find which users had the most growth in their mailbox size.…