Tips and Tricks

#PSTip Mapping the CIM ValueMap and Values qualifiers

Ravikanth C
3 Min To Read
23 Apr, 2014
- Wmi
- Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 3.0 or above. At PowerShell training I did earlier this week, an attendee asked me if there is a way to map a CIM class property’s ValueMap to the Values.

#PStip Enabling RSS inside Hyper-V guest OS

Emin Atac
1 Min To Read
17 Apr, 2014
- Hyper v
- Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 3.0 or above. While reviewing results returned by the Best Practices Analyzer on a virtual machine, a warning about RSS (Receive Side Scaling) was raised.

#PSTip Pause after UEFI boot failure when using Hyper-V Generation 2 virtual machines

Jan Egil Ring
2 Min To Read
16 Apr, 2014

Hyper-V in Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 introduced Generation 2 virtual machines, which provides new feature and better performance.

#PSTip How to identify “memory limited” servers using PowerShell

Shay Levy
2 Min To Read
15 Apr, 2014
- Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. Yesterday, I got a call from one of our BI managers. Listen, he says, I suspect that one of my BI servers is working too hard.

#PSTip Listing all blobs in a public Azure storage container

Ravikanth C
1 Min To Read
10 Apr, 2014
- Azure
- Tips and tricks

In the earlier article, I showed you how to deploy a Azure VM from VM depot. The VM depot has a public storage container where all the VHDs are stored as blobs.

#PSTip Replacing invalid XML characters

Shay Levy
1 Min To Read
09 Apr, 2014
- Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. When authoring XML documents, some of the data you will use in your tags are considered invalid.

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