Tips and Tricks

#PSTip Get currently available MAC address from Hyper-V MAC address pool

Ravikanth C
1 Min To Read
12 Mar, 2014
- Hyper v
- Tips and tricks

I have written scripts to automate VM deployments across a farm of Hyper-V servers and I prefer using static MAC addresses for all my workload virtual machines.

#PSTip Identifying read-only domain controllers

Shay Levy
1 Min To Read
11 Mar, 2014
- Active directory
- Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. When you get a list of domain controllers using the AD module, one of the properties each DC has is the IsReadOnly property.

#PSTip Setting VM Bandwidth Management QoS in Hyper-V using PowerShell

Shay Levy
1 Min To Read
10 Mar, 2014
- Hyper v
- Power shell

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 3.0 or above. The bandwidth utilized by a VM (QoS = Quality of Service ) can be controlled via special parameters of the virtual network card for a given VM.

#PSTip How to disable DNS registration with PowerShell

Emin Atac
2 Min To Read
07 Mar, 2014
- Tips and tricks
- Wmi

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. Today, a colleague in the network team asked if we could disable the default DNS registration flag (shown below) because our computers are not allowed to update DNS servers directly.

#PSTip GitHub PowerShell syntax highlighting in Markdown

Carlos Perez
2 Min To Read
06 Mar, 2014
- Tips and tricks

GitHub, a service for hosting development projects that can be written in many programing and scripting languages has its own extensions to the popular Markdown style.

#PSTip Installing and setting up AWS PowerShell Tools

Ravikanth C
2 Min To Read
05 Mar, 2014
- Aws
- Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. I have been working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and for me the default management tool is their PowerShell module.

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