Tips and Tricks

#PSTip Restarting PowerShell as an administrator

Shay Levy
2 Min To Read
04 Mar, 2014
- Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. I bet this sounds familiar to you. You start working in the PowerShell console or in the ISE, and then at one point you figure out that a command you’re executing fails because your session is not …

#PSTip Setting Hyper-V client settings

Shay Levy
3 Min To Read
03 Mar, 2014
- Hyper v
- Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 3.0 or above. When working with Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 or Windows 8 and higher, you can set various Hyper-V host settings via the Hyper-V Settings dialog.

#PSTip How to identify Hyper-V virtual machines

Shay Levy
2 Min To Read
28 Feb, 2014
- Hyper v
- Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. There are several ways to test if a computer object is a virtual machine.

#PSTip Hyper-V VM Connection Authorization

Shay Levy
1 Min To Read
27 Feb, 2014
- Hyper v
- Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 3.0 or above. Virtual Machine Connection Authorization allows users to connect to virtual machines using the VMConnect interface in Hyper-V (and Hyper-V RSAT tools).

#PSTip Monitoring Cluster Shared Volume (CSV) availability

Ravikanth C
1 Min To Read
26 Feb, 2014
- Hyper v
- Tips and tricks

Recently, I was troubleshooting an issue related to CSVs going offline randomly. In that process, I had to detect when a CSV goes offline and then analyse a few log files to find the root cause.

#PSTip Editing your hosts file

Shay Levy
1 Min To Read
25 Feb, 2014
- Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. Occasionally you need to make changes to the hosts file, either locally or remotely on another machine.

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