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  • Even MORE SCOM 2012 R2 Dashboard Fun with Multi-Pin Bing Maps

    May 25, 2014 Author: Craig Taylor
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    An enhancement of Tao Yang’s application of the SCOM 2012 R2 UR2 PowerShell Web Browser widget, leveraging Bing Maps. Facilitating support of multiple pins per map, surfacing of rich custom data and dynamic scaling. Contains challenge, summary of approach, screenshots and code solution. Intermediate PowerShell, covering loops, SCOM cmdlets, XML handling and counting incidence of substring inside a string.

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  • Even MORE SCOM 2012 R2 Dashboard Fun with Multi-Pin Bing Maps

    May 25, 2014 Author: Craig Taylor
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    An enhancement of Tao Yang’s application of the SCOM 2012 R2 UR2 PowerShell Web Browser widget, leveraging Bing Maps. Facilitating support of multiple pins per map, surfacing of rich custom data and dynamic scaling. Contains challenge, summary of approach, screenshots and code solution. Intermediate PowerShell, covering loops, SCOM cmdlets, XML handling and counting incidence of substring inside a string.

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  • Remote activation of Windows Server Licensing via PowerShell (sort of)

    February 14, 2014 Author: Craig Taylor
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    Commentated script providing a means of batch activating Virtual Machines and Physical servers using PowerShell and SCHTASKS.exe, circumventing the limitations of Invoke-Command when calling SLMGR.vbs. This script could easily be extended to work with other data-sources (Active Directory) or Hypervisors (vSphere via PowerCLI)

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  • Remote activation of Windows Server Licensing via PowerShell (sort of)

    February 14, 2014 Author: Craig Taylor
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    Commentated script providing a means of batch activating Virtual Machines and Physical servers using PowerShell and SCHTASKS.exe, circumventing the limitations of Invoke-Command when calling SLMGR.vbs. This script could easily be extended to work with other data-sources (Active Directory) or Hypervisors (vSphere via PowerCLI)

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  • List SCVMM allocated IP addresses via PowerShell

    January 30, 2014 Author: Craig Taylor
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    An easily understood PowerShell pipeline for listing IP addresses allocated from SCVMM managed pools

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  • List SCVMM allocated IP addresses via PowerShell

    January 30, 2014 Author: Craig Taylor
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    An easily understood PowerShell pipeline for listing IP addresses allocated from SCVMM managed pools

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  • Bulk enable disabled SCCM 2012 Programs using PowerShell

    January 27, 2014 Author: Craig Taylor
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    Enable disabled System Center 2012 programs en-masse via a very simple PowerShell pipeline.

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  • Bulk enable disabled SCCM 2012 Programs using PowerShell

    January 27, 2014 Author: Craig Taylor
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    Enable disabled System Center 2012 programs en-masse via a very simple PowerShell pipeline.

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  • A plea to Microsoft: Keep Cloud definitions true

    May 10, 2012 Author: Craig Taylor
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    After sitting through the MMS keynote slide-deck twice, I finally couldn’t hold my tongue any longer.

    On one key ‘educational’ slide, the speaker informs the audience what the definition of Cloud Delivery is. He mentions four of the many tenets from the widely accepted United States NIST definition.

    He then fails to reference said source, fails to state the existence of other requirements (such as automation, and most tellingly charge-back/usage metering with cost association)

    Now, I appreciate that an icon for ‘usage based’ is presented, but that’s so fluffy as to lack any meaning.

    Could that be that because no native charge-back calculation tools are included in the SC suite (please approach a partner), but a reasonably cool one exists in a vCompetitor’s ‘Cloud’ product?

    Vendor X – I beg you: please don’t rewrite definitions to make your product tick all the boxes. All you’re doing is crudely tampering with the proverbial ‘form’, and you’re fooling no-one. Especially sad when you’re making such fantastic products!

  • App-V 5.0

    April 19, 2012 Author: Craig Taylor
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    Just a very quick post – App-V 5.0 looks fantastic! Lovely Metro App-Store style interface for end user interaction coupled to fantastic PoSH development for us administrators, including 1 cmdlet package conversion & validations. Go forth and install people!

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