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I'm doing it wrong – calculation not working
I’m trying to script the detection of freespace of dedicated virtual desktops in our VMware View environment. Based on the freespace percentage returned, I’m hoping to resize the disk in vSphere via...
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Well, you’re only multiplying your Free Space by 1.05, instead of your Total Space. Other than that, your code looks fine.
View ArticleReply To: I'm doing it wrong – calculation not working
You know that feeling when you haven’t had enough coffee and just posted a stupid question on the Internet? Sigh. Thanks, Dave!
View ArticleReply To: Initial Thoughts on DSC E-Book
Don - The book states that “On Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2008 R2, make certain that KB2883200 is installed or DSC will not work.” If I look up that KB (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2883200) it...
View ArticleNewb question about Get-scheduledtask
I’m pretty new to PowerShell. I have about 200 hyper-v servers running 2008, 2008R2 and 2012 server. I need a list of scheduled tasks for each server, but I’m only interested in the non-microsoft...
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Get-ScheduledTask is a feature of specific versions of Windows, not a version of PowerShell. Ergo, it doesn’t exist on some of your computers. “WinRM quickconfig” isn’t the best way to enable...
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Oh, correction – I see PowerShellPack.msi. Sorry, I saw that and thought of PowerGUI for some reason, since it uses PowerPacks. Anyway, yes, PowerShellPack.msi is the installer that brings some of the...
View ArticleHow to set the profile for PS for web access
Hi, Has anyone figured out how to create a PS profile for all users logging on to Powershell for Web Access? Thanks in advance.
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Reply To: I'm doing it wrong – calculation not working
No problem! BTW, I don’t know if you’re aware of this, but you don’t need to hard-code the value 1073741824. PowerShell gives you a more readable version of that: 1GB $totalSpaceGB =...
View ArticleReply To: Manage PSSessionConfigurations
Just for clarification, are talking about signing a .pssc file? As far as I know, that cannot be done. This is not really a script but a configuration file that uses a hash table to specify the level...
View ArticleReply To: Get-AdComputer cmdlet on Windows 2003 SP2 Server
Thanks Dave, I installed the Remote Server Admin Tools Pack on my Windows 7 Machine and had it working smooth
View ArticleReply To: Need Help with Advanced Functions
Yeah I am still trying to grasp the concepts of PowerShell toolmaking. I know my code looks a bit scatter brained. I guess I just need to study up on functions more. One question, I put cmdletbinding,...
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Both scripts and functions (and any other script block, for that matter) can have a param statement. Typically, you’ll put functions that you intend people to call directly into a script module (psm1...
View ArticleSpecial characters being passed as parameter
# Preface Windows is an after thought not a priority at my company I am writing a script that will take an input parameter into the function. The strings are a POSIX based timezone string that...
View ArticleFor anyone having trouble with DSC Configuation Manager Win 2008 R2….
I have finally found out why DSCLocalConfiguration Manager for Powershell for Web Access was not available on my Windows 2008 R2 and thought I would share… You have to install .NET 4.5 BEFORE you...
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There’s nothing in those strings that would cause a problem for PowerShell, so long as they’re quoted. Some-Function -Parameter 'Argentina/San_Luis – WARST – (GMT/UTC -3) Daylight Savings Time'...
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Thank you David, However I won’t have control of the quotes they will be passed as a parameter to my script from an RBA and Orchestration like system (Not Microsoft product). So I guess my question...
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The quotation marks are not part of the strings themselves; they’re what indicates a string literal. Once you have a [string] variable, you can do whatever you want with it, and the contents don’t...
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