Adding a host to VCSA
Here is how to add a host to VCSA (vCenter Server Appliance specifically version 7) Right click on the location where you want to add the host and click Add Host
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ESXi changing the host name
Here is how to change the host name in ESXi (specifically ESXi 7) Click on Networking Click on TCP/IP stacks Click on the Default TCP/IP stack
ESXi Setting a static IP
Here is how to set a static IP in ESXi
Windows Updates PowerShell Script
There have been a lot of critical exploits over the last few months. Really the best way to deal with that is Windows Updates. Now I can hear you complaining that Windows Updates left untamed will just reboot your servers randomly or I don’t want to build WSUS or my RMM doesn’t patch well and…
Disable Auto Windows Updates
Auto Windows updates are annoying especially when left untamed as it will automatically reboot the device be it a workstation or a server. I’ve written a script that can mass disable Windows updates across all devices even if they aren’t domain joined. Technically you could go in and disabled the Windows Update service but that…
HP Audio Fix
Recently I came across an issue were multiple HP systems that had a fresh install of Windows 10 Pro 1703 from a known working ISO and then upgraded to 1709. Once on 1709 the audio drivers wouldn’t work at all and if you tried to install the correct driver from HP it still wouldn’t fix…
Mass Edit ADSI Values
I got tired of having to manually edit ADSI values for more then one user so I wrote a PowerShell script to automate the process. I even went to the extent to include a display of the values that were changed at the end. The main purpose of this script was to edit the msExchHideFromAddressLists…
Swap Office 365 Licences
Update The process detailed below has been deprecated by Microsoft. An updated version of this process is detailed in my post called Swap Microsoft 365 Licenses with Microsoft Graph. I needed to remove some expired Office 365 licences that were expired to the point where I couldn’t do it via the admin interface so I…
Find files and folders
Recently I needed to find all files and folders containing two spaces, normally I would use something like a file renamer but in this case for various reasons I just needed to generate a list. Eventually I ended up figuring out a PowerShell command to do it. Here’s the code I used to do it…
