Author Archives: brian.wuchner

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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Do you have any way of getting server name from the attached list of IPs?

Posted on June 24, 2013 by brian.wuchner

Every now and then I get a simple script idea in my email, like this one from a couple weeks ago: Do you have any way of getting server name from the attached list of IPs? This is a pretty … Continue reading →

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When are Windows patches happening?

Posted on May 22, 2013 by brian.wuchner

As most people know, Microsoft releases patches on the second Tuesday of the month. In some organizations these patches are deployed to development, test and QA systems within a couple of days of the release. However, production systems can’t be … Continue reading →

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