Author Archives: brian.wuchner

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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Get-ESXCli and changes with vSphere 5.0

Posted on December 1, 2011 by brian.wuchner

I mentioned in a previous post (VMware View inside vCloud Director) that we had to make a last minute change to the lab content on the fly. This change was to Exercise 11 that covers the Get-ESXCli cmdlet. I should … Continue reading →

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GCVMUG PowerCLI 5.0 Lab

Posted on November 22, 2011 by brian.wuchner

Earlier this month I had the privilege of helping out with a PowerCLI hands on lab at the Greater Cincinnati VMUG regional event. The content of this GCVMUG PowerCLI 5.0 lab is now available online: GCVMUG PowerCLI 5.0 Lab A … Continue reading →

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VMware View inside vCloud Director

Posted on November 17, 2011 by brian.wuchner

I recently wrote about a PowerCLI lab I helped out with at the Greater Cincinnati VMUG (GCVMUG) whole day event (you can read more here). We had originally planned to have each lab station remote desktop into a vCenter server … Continue reading →

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