Have you run into the following error when using Intune for Mobile Device Management? iOS Guided Access Unavailable. Please contact your administrator. Don’t panic. If you’ve run into this, you may be stymied on what to do as the device is essentially unresponsive. Even hard power resets do not resolve it. A full OS wipe…
Depending on your situation, you may want to shutdown all or certain VMs on your host for maintenance, updates, backups or just recover resources from non-production VMs. You may also want to schedule times to ensure that only certain VMs are started back up. This is where PowerShell is our friend. To shutdown all VMs…
Last year at the Midwest Management Summit was a blast! I had a chance to co-present with my friend Bob, hang out with a lot of great System Center folks and in general just geek out (for my thoughts on last year’s conference check this out). This year’s session list is looking awesome and I…
Back in 2011 I collaborated with Veeam to develop a whitepaper called “How to manage System Center Operations Manager using Groups”. Since this was written before the release of System Center Operations Manager 2012 (or 2012 R2) this has needed some updates to match the current world of Operations Manager and Veeam. This has been…
One of the things I like most about PowerShell is the ease with which you can read XML and use it in your scripts. Here is the function that I use to load an XML configuration file as an example:
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function LoadConfig($fileName) { [xml]$xmlInput = "" if ($fileName) { Write-Host "Loading from: $($env:dp0)\$($fileName)" $xmlInput = Get-Content $env:dp0\$fileName } else { Write-Host "No file name provided" } return $xmlInput } |
Its so easy that everyone does it and we end up with lots of…
Dynamics CRM 2016 is on the horizon. With its recent enhancements it is focused more than ever on streamlining your customer interactions. It now includes a single view for handling customer interactions, and not only with CRM information. You can also leverage Delve to discover more intelligence on your customer. Once your discovery is completed,…
This post is part of a series on Service Manager PowerShell. Be sure to check out the Overview Page for all posts in this series. In the previous post, Creating Configuration Items, we saw how to create configuration items using the Service Manager PowerShell Cmdlets. Now, in this post, we are going to look into…
Don’t get me wrong, I am actually a fan of Windows 10. I have one system already running on it and I am looking forward to upgrading almost all of my home systems to it. There’s one big exception and this exception is due to Microsoft’s decision not mine. Microsoft has decided not to support…
I am honored to be among the speakers at the upcoming Veeam conference: VeeamON on October 26-29! For those not familiar with VeeamON, this is the second year for the event and this is how Veeam describes it: VeeamON 2015 is designed to connect the world’s leading IT experts and visionaries to learn how to…
update: 03/13/2018 I’ve added code to monitor session states and put status in title-bar. When you hit ‘enter’ key, it will update session states in title-bar. Some people may not want this, so you’ll need to use the switch (-IncludeSessionStates) when you run script. See bottom of blog for details. update: 03/5/2018 I’ve added support…
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