I'm not super familiar with ThinApping, but converted portions of this VMware login script at the request of a consultant.

I tried to automate the script a bit more than the one from VMware's blog. Their script required that you put in the path to each EXE. This script will find all exes within a directory and register …

Recently, while trying to use New-WebServiceProxy to automate some SharePoint form entries, I ran into a lookup issue.

First, I got this rather generic error: Exception calling "GetListItems" with "7" argument(s): "Exception of type 'Microsoft.SharePoint.SoapServer.SoapServerException' was …

Need your External IP address? Just use the following in PowerShell 3 and above

$ip = (Invoke-WebRequest https://ipinfo.io/ip).Content.Trim()

As a bonus, you can also get additional IP information using ipinfo.io's JSON web service.

$jsonip = Invoke-WebRequest https://ipinfo.io/json $ipinfo = Convertfrom-JSON …

Unfortunately, there are no native PowerShell Failover Cluster cmdlets which will give you the volume information for disks in a cluster. I've seen some bloggers use Get-ClusterSharedVolume but a Cluster Shared Volume or CSV is different from volumes used within a SQL cluster.

The script below, which was written with …

Recently, I was asked to help automate a friend's super boring daily duty of logging repetitive activities to a SharePoint Task list. Even though I'm no longer regularly working with SharePoint (yay!), I accepted the challenge.

Below is the script I created, which can be scheduled (and mixed up, even using $a = …

In my previous post, I outlined how to use PowerShell v2 to keep a CookieJar and POST to a Web Form that Prohibits XSS. The code was 35 lines long. Upon seeing my post, Lee Holmes suggested using PowerShell v3's Invoke-WebRequest instead to get my code down to 1/5th of its original size.

I'm astounded at how easy …

I recently had a project that required I log into a site and submit a form. Initially, I had a Start-Process that launched iexplore but then I decided it would be best to..

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Next in the series of replacing vSphere related SSL scripts is the VMware Site Recovery manager script.

This script generates the SSL certificates based off of the WebServer Certificate Template and runs a batch file to perform the actual replacement. …