A quick script that came up in response to a situation where I wanted to know the date a workstation on the network was last built without visiting the machine or interrupting the currently logged on user. PowerShell to the rescue!
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This post contains resources to accompany my Devs4Ops talk from the January 2018 London VMUG. It’s a list of links to things I mentioned (or intended to mention but forgot to) in the presentation.
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VMware vSphere 6.5 comes with a RESTful API implementation and there’s some great documentation out there- starting with the API Explorer (http://my.vcenter.name/apiexplorer ). Here’s a quick piece on how to use this API to create a VM from the PowerShell command line. This is intentionally not using PowerCLI, just the …

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With a list of Surnames in a text file I wanted to see how many start with A, how many with B, and so on. This is my PowerShell solution:
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Using the manage-bde command you can check the Bitlocker encryption status on both the local Windows computer but also remote devices on the local area network. For example, to check the encryption status of the C: drive on the computer “WS12345” the following command could be used 1manage-bde -status -computername …

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A regular ping command is great for checking if Host A can see Host B, but what if we want to go a bit deeper- for example check if a web server is contactable on port 80 and 443? The PowerShell cmdlet Test-NetConnection is a great tool for doing this.
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How Many Sleeps Till Christmas?
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Here’s another little PowerShell script that might be useful. This was knocked up to provide some basic load testing on the search function of a web application
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I’ve had a number of times over the years where I’ve needed to guarantee to someone that their data is unchanged as a result of an IT action
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In an ESXi environment with no Storage vMotion I had the need to move a production VM from one datastore to another.
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