Author Archives: brian.wuchner

Multiple vCenters and MAC address conflicts

Posted on January 23, 2012 by brian.wuchner

VMware KB article 1024025 explains an issue with MAC address conflicts due to multiple vCenter configurations with the same instance ID. Here is a technical description straight from the KB article: Each vCenter Server system has a vCenter Server instance … Continue reading →

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Powershell title bar and profile

Posted on January 14, 2012 by brian.wuchner

This is a very simple post, but it shows how to make the Powershell title bar contain useful information. By default the Powershell title contains the path to the powershell.exe file — here is an example: To make this more … Continue reading →

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Simple examples of Powershell PSCustomObject

Posted on January 14, 2012 by brian.wuchner

In most of my Powershell scripts I make use of the PSCustomObject to store results. The example I first learned (and use all the time) looks just like this: $item = “” | Select Name, RAM, CPU $item.Name = “blah” … Continue reading →

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Working with the lastLogon attribute in PowerShell

Posted on December 23, 2011 by brian.wuchner

I have been spending a lot of time working on Powershell scripts. Specifically, I have been re-writing many VB scripts and processes into more efficient powershell versions. In my last post I mentioned that I planed to share how I … Continue reading →

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T-SQL to show how long a task took to execute

Posted on December 7, 2011 by brian.wuchner

I have been working on various scripts that populate information into a SQL table. The other day I was attempting to see how long some of these tables took to populate. I could have updated the PowerShell script to include … Continue reading →

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