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Handling Objects not Found in Active Directory

The Active Directory module for PowerShell has been around for a very long time now, and it’s even still an OG Windows PowerShell module. I noted some interesting behaviour on some recent work I wanted to share.

Preparing for a PowerShell Interview

My PowerShell experience has been gained in roles that typically have a mash of other infrastructure skills, Hyper-V, vSphere, all things Windows (and sometimes Linux). It is not often you see dedicated PowerShell development roles come along, like you do with Python for instance. Last year I had the opportunity to apply for such aContinue reading “Preparing for a PowerShell Interview”

VUMXtra 1.3 Update

VMWare Update Manager has been officially deprecated as of 8.0 and honestly I wasn’t expecting to be doing much more with VUMXtra since it’s last release. However here we are with VUMXtra 1.3 with some significant changes. Read on to find out more.

ESXi NTP Configuration with PowerShell

As part of a recent automation workflow, I had cause to configure NTP on ESXi hosts. I honestly thought this would be easier than it was, but a couple of issues led me to “roll my own” function which I’m sharing here.

Building ISO Files with PowerShell 7

A function that’s been part of my toolkit for a long time is New-ISOFile by Chris Wu. This excellent little function allowed you to build an ISO file directly from PowerShell, even a bootable one. I came to use it recently on an automation project with PowerShell 7 and discovered there was some compatibility issueContinue reading “Building ISO Files with PowerShell 7”