Functions - Category - pr0mpt

Using Pester for Infrastructure testing

robert — Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:37:32 +0200

Recently the company I am working at was running into performance issues which became a pain to sort out as it was so sporadic (lasted like 5 mins max every time), but when it happened it affected the entire company.

Youve got the Power!! plan….

robert — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 17:17:13 +0200

Today I was playing around on some machines on which I noticed the Power Plans were set incorrect, Balanced on a server :'( Now of course I can do this manually, or I can use PowerShell instead! Tools not scripts Since I want to use this more often and want to create my own “toolbelt” [aka module with common tools], I’ve decided to make the solution as advanced functions, not just scripts.

Invoke-Command wrapper function

robert — Fri, 16 Sep 2016 12:00:52 +0200

A quick post this time about something that might be helpful for others, something that saves me from typing too much 🙂 I’ve noticed over the last week that I’ve been doing various remoting commands through Invoke-Command to the same machines, which require additional credentials to access. Why re-type something when you can automate it 🙂 Before I used to have to do the following: 1 2 3 4 5 $SCCMServers = 'CM01.

VM Lab - Switch it up

robert — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 12:00:33 +0200

Back again for another part in my VM Lab series. So far I’ve created the folder structure which we will use to store our ISO files, VHD files [including template VHDs and Unattend.xml files] and VM’s. In order to manipulate the ReadOnly status of various files [such as the template VHD’s and Unattend.xml files], I’ve provided simple functions which will assist us. Now we need to make sure that the final piece of the infrastructure is ready: the Hyper-V VM Switches.