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Automation

Updating your PowerCLI module

When updating your PowerCLI module you may find that some modules cant be upgraded if they are in use. This tends to occur if you modify your powershell profile to import the vmware.powercli module when you start powershell. The manul work around for this is Stop all running instances of…

Posted on 14th February 2018 by Smithers by Smithers

PowerCLI

Decrypting a System.Security.SecureString.

Sometimes it's useful to be able to decrypt a System.Security.SecureString. For example recently I was writing a script to change root passwords. I needed the user to enter a new root password twice and compare them to check the passwords matched. Below a function to do decrypt the System.Security.SecureString to…

Posted on 6th December 2017 by Smithers by Smithers

Administration

Looking up InfoBlox with PowerShell

I'm not the administrator for InfoBlox in my organisation. But simply an InfoBlox user. I recently had a requirement to get host details from InfoBlxo for some automation I was writing. So came up with the following function to return a host's ip details. [crayon-5c6c1dd95482e547653738/]

Category: PowerShell