PowerCLI for easy VMware automation

I’ve had VMware’s PowerCLI installed on my admin PC for months now, but I hadn’t had a chance to use it until today. But I’m glad I did! On several previous occasions I’ve needed to use the vSphere CLI (f/k/a RCLI) or the Perl SDK for specific tasks, but did not find them…...

New article to kickoff the PowerShell Primer series

Today I’m starting a new series of posts which will server as an introduction to some of the joys of PowerShell scripting. Yeah, that’s right: I said “joys”… seriously! PowerShell is powerful as the first part of the name suggests and flexible as a shell should be, and once you...

My Favorite Bookmarklets

Since I spend so much time with the web browser every day, at work and at home, I have become an extension junkie. I just can’t resist all these browser add-ins that make me more efficient—and probably some which don’t increase efficiency, too (e.g. chrome.angrybirds.com). But I am not...

You can’t swim when the pool is empty!

Yesterday I was handed a fun little problem by my cube-neighbor: one of our many Citrix servers was randomly getting the dreaded error event 2019 “The server was unable to allocate from the system nonpaged pool because the pool was empty”… and then, failing to “swim”, the server...

Favorite MS Office Add-ins

I have a confession to make: I love Micro$oft Office 2007 (and 2010). After using Word, Excel and Outlook frequently over the years I had become quite used to the standard menus, features, and keyboard shortcuts; so I was initially quite skeptical when v2007 was announced. But someone challenged me saying,...

UAC is still a pain in the, uh, access

I’ve been at my new job for about two weeks now, and I’m starting to settle in. The past few work days I’ve been busy troubleshooting and tweaking AD and DNS for different remote sites, as that is an area that it’s easy for me to jump right in and be useful. I’m also very...