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VMWare – ‘Paste’ into the VSphere Console, Finally!

By Niall 23 February 2024

Getting frustrated with not being able to paste directly into the VMRC?
On your 400th attempt at typing that autogenerated password for the VM Template?
Chronic case of Sausage Fingers?
Or are you just a lazy sys admin?

Powershell Scripts

Powershell – Use Speedtest CLI to Monitor Broadband speeds – Part 1

By Niall 18 February 2021

After having some speed issues I wanted to create a script to document these into an easy to access table that I could see what was happening. So rather than reinventing the wheel, Ookla offer a Python application that will display your internet speeds from the commandline… if thats your wish; and in my case, it was!

My main wants in this were:

Create a PowerShell script to get the information I wanted
Output the results to a CSV
Use scheduled Tasks to run the script hourly
Upload the results to a local web server and display in a HTML table

Exchange Powershell Scripts

Powershell – Exchange Environmental Check

By Niall 18 February 2020

I have adapted the “Modern Exchange Environment Check” from Satheshwaran Manoharan and for use on a Exchange Server 2016 environment.
Added to the already excelent script is the following

Section Headers
MailboxDB provisioning Status
Whitespace check
Exchange Log Dir Size
Exchange Server Drive Space
Mail Queue Checks
House Keeping of created files

I feel that this is now a more complete report of the Exchange Server environment and the servers it runs upon.