My XenApp 6.5 Farm Health Powershell Script

This is a script I wrote to get some XenApp Farm Health info and to show statuses. It also works with the XenApp Rolling Reboot script by Dane Young. It still needs a lot of cleanup and changes. I just haven’t gotten to them, but eventually will. This is the quick and dirty. Don’t even ...

VMJuggler for PowerCLI

Maish over at his Technodrone blog publlished a PowerCLI version of Richard Garsthagen’s executable for VMJuggler. For those that do not know, VMJuggler performs a constant vMotion of a guest between two hosts to measure network throughput, latency, etc. Great tool! Go to the Technodrone article

Gotcha! – Office 2007 Automation with Powershell in Windows 2008

It seems MS has changed the game again on Office automations with Office 2007 and Windows 2008 and/or Windows 7 and Powershell scripts. I do quite a bit of Powershell scripting and found that after upgrading my script host to 2008 R2, my scripts scheduled in Task Manager no longer worked. I pulled out my ...

Using Plink in PowerCLI

A few people have blogged about using the plink.exe command line utility included with the Putty client distribution and I thoght I would add a couple of my own one-liners that I have used recently. To those who don’t know, Plink is a command line SSH command line utility that can be ported to from ...