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Presenting at PowerShell Bangalore User Group Meeting, July 27th 2013

Had a good time Presenting at my second PSBUG event organised at Microsoft Bangalore, here’s a snap from my presentation.Here are the details of the event http://bitprojuly2013.eventbrite.com/  

July 28, 2013 · by Vinith · 0

Perform Multiple Parallel Live Migrations of Virtual Machines Across Hyper-V Host using New Workflow Feature in PowerShell V3

Here’s my part 2 of blog on how you can use PowerShell Workflow in PowerShell v3 to perform Multiple Parallel Live Migrations of Virtual Machines Across Hyper-V Host.This was part 2 of my presentation i took at the PSBUG eventIf you…

June 14, 2013 · by Vinith · 0

Presenting at PowerShell Bangalore User Group Meeting, June 1st 2013

Had a good time at PSBUG event organised at Microsoft Bangalore, here’s a snap from my presentation. Here are the details of the event http://psbugjune12013-eorg.eventbrite.com/ And here’s the topic which i presented http://www.vinithmenon.com/2013/06/provision-virtual-machines-in-parallel.html

June 13, 2013 · by Vinith · 0

Provision Virtual Machines in Parallel using New Workflow Feature in PowerShell V3

PowerShell Workflow is one heavy duty feature which comes bundled with PowerShell v3, From my personal experiences i feel that its best used when you need to sequence you tasks, the best example being to run your tasks in parallel.Here’s…

June 13, 2013 · by Vinith · 0

Running SharePoint 2010 PowerShell cmdlets on Windows Server 2012

As per Microsoft we cannot install SP2010 on a Windows Server 2012 Box.Here’s the KB article which states this http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2724471 When we try and run the prerequisites installer before installing SP2010 it states that it has a compatibility issue and it fails.…

December 19, 2012 · by Vinith · 0

Convert a Windows Server 2012 Server to iSCSI Target Server And Offer Low-Cost Storage

Today i will share some of my practical experiences with the New Role in Windows Server 2012 which allows us to convert a Windows Server 2012 Box to an iSCSI Target Server And Offer Low-Cost Storage.Using iSCSI Target in Windows…

December 2, 2012 · by Vinith · 0

PowerShell Script to Check if Windows 8 PC is complaint to run Hyper-V V-3

In Windows 8, Microsoft has replaced its previous virtualization solution, Windows Virtual PC, with a more powerful, scalable, and capable solution called Hyper-V.Hyper-V client is present only in the Windows 8 Pro or Enterprise version. To Install Hyper-V version 3 role…

November 29, 2012 · by Vinith · 0

New iSCSI cmdlets in PowerShell V3 Part – 1

Today i was going through the new iSCSI cmdlets in Windows Server 2012, i was pretty amazed to see that we can automate almost all aspects related to iSCSI configurations. I did a quick check on all iSCSI related cmdlets…

November 29, 2012 · by Vinith · 5

Delegated Administration in Windows PowerShell v3

In a Large Enterprise say for example if we consider a Infrastructure Management Team we would be having   a Number of Teams, Maybe one could be Exchange Team, Storage Team, Network Team and Maybe a PKI team.Delegated administration allows…

November 27, 2012 · by Vinith · 0

Switching Over From PowerShell V2 to V3 in Same PowerShell Console

Hi Guys, Today i saw a cool way of switching over from PowerShell V2 to V3 in the same console, thought to share the same with you all.If i open a PowerShell V3 Console and run the below command it…

November 25, 2012 · by Vinith · 0