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UK PowerShell Group–November Recording

RichardSiddaway — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 06:00:00 GMT

The November meeting

http://msmvps.com/blogs/richardsiddaway/archive/2011/11/05/powershell-user-group-22-november.aspx

was “What’s new in PowerCLI 5?” presented by Jonathan Medd

The recording of Jonathan’s presentation is available from

https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=43CFA46A74CF3E96&id=43CFA46A74CF3E96%212929

Jonathan’s slides are available from

http://www.jonathanmedd.net/2011/11/whats-new-in-powercli-5-0-slides-from-uk-powershell-usergroup.html

Enjoy

UK PowerShell Group November–reminder

RichardSiddaway — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 06:00:00 GMT

UK PowerShell Group meeting – Jonathan Medd on “Whats new in PowerCLI 5”

details from http://msmvps.com/blogs/richardsiddaway/archive/2011/11/05/powershell-user-group-22-november.aspx

Networking pains

RichardSiddaway — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 05:00:00 GMT

Last week my wireless router decided that it had enough and wasn’t going to work any more. This was annoying because I was due to give a user group presentation that night.

I got a new router up and working but today discovered that connectivity from my Hyper-V environment wasn’t working. With the previous router I’d configured bridging between a Hyper-V virtual network and the wireless adapter in my host. That had to be recreated at which point I discovered that the new router didn’t want to support bridging.

I ended up using RRAS and NAT to get the connectivity. The instructions I found here

http://sqlblog.com/blogs/john_paul_cook/archive/2008/03/23/using-wireless-with-hyper-v.aspx

provide most of what you need.

Remember to set the default gateways and DNS servers properly for it all to work.

PowerShell and VMware book

RichardSiddaway — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 05:00:00 GMT

My good friends Jonathan Medd and Alan Renouf (together with a number of co-authors) have just had their book “VMware vSphere PowerCLI Reference: Automating vSphere Administration” published. More details on the book contents and for a chance to win a copy visit

http://www.jonathanmedd.net/2011/03/powercli-book-raffle.html

I’ll doing a full review of the book when I can get my hands on a copy

Inscrivez vous aux TechDays 2011

Mtoo — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 06:00:00 GMT

Comme nous en avons maintenant l’habitude, Microsoft organise le rendez-vous incontournable des développeurs, décideurs et professionnels de l’informatique, les Microsoft TechDays qui rassemblent depuis bientôt 5 ans et pendant 3 jours, au Palais des Congrès de Paris, plus de : 17 000 visiteurs 140 partenaires écosystème Microsoft sur une exposition de plus de 5 500m2 150 journalistes et influenceurs 300 experts techniques conférenciers et démonstrateurs Un programme de 330 conférences offrant un véritable parcours à la carte. Les Microsoft TechDays sont une occasion unique de se former sur toutes les nouveautés Microsoft et découvrir les tendances du marché.

Voici les parcours proposés :

Programme des conférences

Cette année les conférences et workshops vous sont proposés à partir de 6 grands thèmes. Cliquez sur l’un des parcours présentés pour en savoir plus.

Cloud Computing

Architecture et développement

Infrastructure des systèmes d'information

Efficacité individuelle et collective

Enjeux

Inscrivez-vous ici : http://www.comscamp.com/Tracker/Redirect.ashx?linkid=5cdeda45-8bc0-4edc-a049-95a03c99d2cf

Laurent Gébeau

Décideurs informatiques : une journée pour vous au MsDays 2010

Mtoo — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Vous êtes décideur informatique ? Du 30 septembre au 3 novembre 2010, participez aux Rendez-vous Décideurs Informatiques des Microsoft Days. Découvrez Microsoft Windows Phone 7 ainsi que les bénéfices et les opportunités de l’offre Cloud de Microsoft. Rencontrez les équipes Microsoft au cours d’une journée unique pour répondre aux problématiques de votre entreprise.

L’agenda de votre journée

Une journée pour découvrir les innovations et orientations stratégiques de Microsoft :

Bénéfices et opportunités des services Cloud Computing de Microsoft
Lancement de Windows Phone 7
Gestion des informations et des processus métiers
Simplification de la recherche et du partage des informations
Rationalisation de l’Infrastructure au travers de la virtualisation des serveurs et des postes clients

Vous et vos équipes pourrez également participer aux Rencontres Techniques et profiter ainsi de plus de 20 sessions techniques, et échanger avec les experts Microsoft lors des pauses.

Inscrivez vous ici :

Laurent Gébeau – www.toutwindows.com

MS Days de l’automne en région : demandez le programme

Mtoo — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Vous avez rendez-vous avec les grandes innovations de demain. Venez partager avec Microsoft et ses partenaires les orientations stratégiques pour l’année 2010/2011, dans 7 villes en France. Une occasion unique de découvrir en exclusivité la stratégie Cloud de Microsoft et Microsoft Windows Phone 7 avant son lancement officiel fin octobre.

Les Microsoft Days sont pour vous, choisissez dès maintenant les rencontres qui correspondent à votre domaine. Microsoft vient à votre rencontre, ne manquez pas cet évènement.

Au programme :

Plus de 20 sessions techniques autour de solutions pour dynamiser et sécuriser votre IT, révolutionner le poste de travail ou encore développer des applications clients et Web de nouvelle génération.
Une occasion unique de monter en compétences sur les derniers produits et technologies Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, Exchange Server 2010, Windows 7, Windows Azure, Internet Explorer 8, Visual Studio, Silverlight, etc.
Des échanges avec des experts techniques Microsoft lors des pôles Ask The Expert ! en fin de journée.
Des rencontres avec vos pairs.

Evènement gratuit, Inscrivez-vous !

Laurent Gébeau – www.twitter.com/mtoo

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Lenovo W510, Hyper-V and BSOD

RichardSiddaway — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Beginning of the week I took delivery of a Lenovo W510 – i7 quad core with Hyper-Threading (Windows sees 8 cores) and 16GB of RAM. From reviews I’d seen it seemed to run Hyper-V OK so it fitted the bill for a mobile lab.

Partitioned the disk OK and got Windows 2008 R2 installed. Had to download a few drivers from the Lenovo (IBM) site but everything I needed was there or on the box already. I’d ordered it with Windows 7 64bit so most of the drivers were available.

Installed Hyper-V and joined it to the domain.

Started moving Virtual Machines on to it and it started crash with a Blue Screen of Death. Not good & I’m not amused at this point. Eventually got to the point where it wouldn’t start – continual BSOD. Very not good – my new toy is going back if this continues!

Did some research and it seems there can be a conflict between core parking and Hyper-V. Core parking is a power saving technology that puts cores to sleep if they are not being used. Hyper-V expects them to be there = BANG.

I booted into the BIOS screen and disabled the power management features on the CPU (and PCI bus for good measure) that enable core parking. Restarted and everything now seems OK.

I can comfortably run a bunch of VMs and have a reasonable performance.

Then I discovered that I had to reactivate Windows on all the VMs. They’d been originally been running on a machine with AMD processor. New processor is Intel. Its enough of a change to trigger reactivation.

All done and everything seems to work fine.

Time to get Virtual Machine Manager installed and see what that actually does.

Book review: Managing VMware Infrastructure with Windows PowerShell

RichardSiddaway — Sun, 09 May 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Author: Hal Rottenberg

Publisher: Sapien Press

ISBN: 978-0-9821314-0-4

If you’ve not read one of my reviews before I have three main criteria for judging a book:

· Is it technically accurate?

· Does deliver the material it claims to deliver?

· Is worth the cost of purchase and the time I spend reading it?

This is a relatively short book at 359 pages

After an Introduction the book is divided into the following chapters:

1. Windows PowerShell Crash Course

2. Getting Started

3. Scripting with Virtual Interface

4. Inventory and Reporting

5. Deployment and Configuration

6. Maintenance and Operations

7. Troubleshooting and problem resolution

An appendix deals with Managing VMware with PowerGUI. I haven’t got into this yet as I still prefer running scripts. I will probably end up creating a PowerGUI powerpack of them for use at work – sorry these can’t be shared.

This may seem like a short list but there is a massive amount of information packed into these chapters. The book is written using PowerShell 1.0. I’m running the VI Toolkit on PowerShell 2.0 against vsphere 4. It all works. The toolkit enables us to perform tasks against the host and the guests in a virtual environment.

Chapter 1 is an introduction covering installation, configuration and the key features of PowerShell such as the pipeline and key cmdlets. Chapter 2 is a very short chapter that introduces the VI Toolkit and the PowerShell cmdlets for VMware.

In chapter 3 we start to look at PowerShell scripts and how the VI Toolkit works with PowerShell. The contents of chapters 4-7 are explained by their titles. I found the information in these chapters to be useful and accurate with the examples ready to use.

Judging against my criteria:

· Is it technically accurate? From a PowerShell aspect yes it is. From a PowerShell aspect everything I’ve tried works as described so again I have to give 10/10 for technical content.

· Does it deliver the material it claims to deliver? Oh yes. I found the examples easy to use and they work. It shows how to use PowerShell against VMware. 10/10

· Is worth the cost of purchase and the time I spend reading it? Very definitely. Its already saved me the purchase price several times over and I’m just on the Inventory and Reporting chapter! This very definitely is a book that repays reading – 10/10

The index is will put together as I was able to find everything I needed. Overall score has to be 10/10. This is one of the best books I’ve bought in a long time.

Before we get too carried away I think the typesetting could have been better – the headings don’t always stand out on the page which can make following the chapters a bit difficult in some places – that’s the only negative I can find.

I haven’t had any need to delve into VMware in any detail until just recently but I did try out the VI Toolkit when it was first in beta. This book is my way into the bits of VMware I need. If you are working with VMware and use PowerShell you should have a copy of this book. If you don’t you should go an buy one – now.