loop until a certain time (in powershell)
Today I needed to write a bit of code that would enable a script to run for 23 hours and 55 minutes before ending itself. So I dug in to PowerShell and again it came up with a fantastic solution for looping until a certain time.
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In: Power Shell · Tagged with: loop, PowerShell
Update ESXi 4 standalone server without vCentre
If like me you have the free Vmware ESXi 4 standalone server you’ve probably found that updating it can be a bit tricky without having vCentre handy or a second server to migrate all your VMs to. So here is the process i have just followed to successfully update my 2010 v4.1 server to the latest patch level.
In: Vmware · Tagged with: ESXi, esxupdate, vmware
Powershell NSLOOKUP
The following PowerShell one liners give you hostname to IP or vice versa.
In: Power Shell · Tagged with: dns, hostname, ip address, nslookup, PowerShell
Validate an IP address in PowerShell
Today I needed to validate an IP address after a user types it in to a script. I don’t want to ping or check connectivity, I just want to validate that the format looks like a valid IP address. I looked at various regex expressions which were getting complicated. Then I stumbled upon this little nugget: Read the rest of this post »
In: Power Shell · Tagged with: .NET, ip address, validate
Move the titlebar buttons to the right in Ubuntu 12.04
If like me you don’t like the way that Ubuntu is looking more and more like OSX these days here is something you can do to help restore some normality back to your desktop. Read the rest of this post »
In: Linux · Tagged with: button, linux, titlebar, Ubuntu
Remove spaces from a cell in Excel
I use Excel a lot to manipulate raw text data. One thing I need to do often is remove spaces from a cell, here are 2 approaches you can use:
Copy members of one AD group to another group
Today I needed to copy about 300 users from one AD group to another and there was no way I was going to do that manually. So I started looking in to what PowerShell can do adn here is what I found: Read the rest of this post »
In: AD, Power Shell · Tagged with: AD, copy, dsquery, PowerShell, users
Cannot shrink transaction log SQL 2005
If you ever come across a MS SQL 2005 transaction log that refuses to shrink, this little bit of code might help you out. Read the rest of this post »
In: SQL · Tagged with: dbcc, sql, Transaction log
Change DAG database Activation Preference
The ActivationPreference decides which server will hold the active database when you automatically rebalance the databases within a DAG using the Microsoft script:
In: Exchange 2010 · Tagged with: activationPreferencem DAG
Raspberry Pi – first boot
Today I finally had a chance to burn a Linux image to an SD card and boot up my Raspberry Pi.
In: Hardware, Raspberry Pi · Tagged with: hardware, linux, Raspberry Pi