Tag: powershell

Create Snapshots of VMM Service via PowerShell

Mike DeLuca leveraged VMM 2012 and PowerShell and created small and useful PowerShell script that creates snapshot of every virtual machine that is part of a VMM service. Find the script here.

Restart All SCOM 2012 Agents in a Management Group via PowerShell

Bob Cornelissen MVP and author for the Mastering SCOM 2012 book wrote very useful script and decided to share it with us. It is PowerShell script that restarts all SCOM 2012 agents from a management group. You can find the script in the Technet Gallery.

Thank you Bob for sharing with the community.

Microsoft Virtual Academy: Windows Server 2012 Tracks

As soon as Windows Server 2012 went into General Availability MVA released a fair amount of videos to cover the new functionalities. So watch and learn for free:

Windows Server 2012: Technical Overview

Server Virtualization Module

Networking Module

Storage Module

Identity and Access Module

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Module

Web and Application Platform Module

Windows Server 2012: Server Virtualization

Virtual Machine and Scale Mobility Module

Windows Server 2012: Storage

Storage Spaces Module

SMB 3.0 Module

File System Enhancements Module

Windows Server 2012: Networking

Managing Network Infrastructure Module

IP Address Management (IPAM) Module

Hyper-V Network Virtualization Module

Windows Server 2012: Management & Automation

Standard Based Management with Windows Management Framework Module

Multi-Server Management with Server Manager Module

You can also logon to MVA and find the track there.

Download attached files from Service Manager with PowerShell

Patrik Sundqvist a System Center Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP developed a script that can download SCSM attachments to save them as archive. Read more about this solution and get the script from here.

Thanks Patrik for sharing with the community.

Manage NIC via PowerShell

Microsoft published a nice article on Partner &Customer Solutions Blog about how to take advantage of PowerShell in managing NICs. The article gives basic overview of several PowerShell commands that can be useful for getting information about NICs or configuring them. You can read the full post here.