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discover informations about all virtual machines to Excel

29. December 201129. December 2011 Burkard JoshVMwareTagged PowerShell, VMware
I had the task to list all existing virtual machines in our vSphere vCenter to an Excel-List. Cause i have alot of VM’s and they change often, i...

Collect warranty informations with SCCM

11. November 201128. December 2011 Burkard JoshSCCMTagged SCCM 20074 Comments on Collect warranty informations with SCCM
a few days ago my boss liked to see a list of all our computers with the warranty informations like purchase date and warranty end date. So i wrote th...

Create a calculated SNMP monitor

11. October 201122. June 2020 Burkard JoshSCOMTagged SCOM 2007 R2, SNMP
Sometimes you need a SCOM monitor which was calculated from one or more SNMP values. Maybe the values have to be calculated, cause the value is in an ...

Clone your Active Directory in 18 minutes using VMware

10. October 201110. October 2011 Burkard JoshActive Directory, VMwareTagged Active Directory, VMware
Anyone out there who runs a successful Microsoft Windows Active Directory, knows that it is pre-eminently useful to have a test environment that very ...

schedule subscriber notifications with exception

4. October 201122. June 2020 Burkard JoshSCOMTagged SCOM 2007 R2
I have created a few subscribers and they work perfectly, but there is one problem. If you define a schedule exception, you wouldn’t receive a n...

Downgrade Windows 7 from Enterprise/Ultimate Edition to lower Edition

28. September 20113. October 2011 Burkard JoshWindows 7Tagged Windows 7
Windows 7 does not allow users to “downgrade” or convert from a more premium and more expensive edition to down-level, more basic and less expensi...

Create a calculated SNMP Rule in SCOM

26. August 201122. June 2020 Burkard JoshNetwork, SCOM, System CenterTagged SCOM 2007 R2, SNMP
Sometimes you need a SCOM Rule which was calculated from one or more SNMP values. Maybe the values have to be calculated, cause the value is in an unh...

unwilling Server

3. August 20113. August 2011 Burkard JoshActive DirectoryTagged Active Directory, curious
I’m working now for over 15 years in information technology, but i got never before a server response which is so straight and funny too: The se...

disable Outlook AutoDiscovery feature for a mail domain

25. July 201125. July 2011 Burkard JoshGeneral, Windows 2008 R2Tagged Exchange, Outlook
Maybe you want to disable the autodiscovery feature in Outlook 2007 / 2010 for your full mail domain – maybe you don’t like the feature, o...

Shutdown full VMware datacenter on UPS failure

11. July 201113. August 2011 Burkard JoshVMwareTagged PowerShell, VMware
To shutdown a VMware datacenter on UPS failure i found a PowerShell script, which i modified: The script will shutdown the desired VMware datacenter, ...

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My name is Josh Burkard.
I'm a DevOps Engineer working with one of Europees largest payroll provider. in my work I have a lot to do with Microsoft server operating systems, System Center, VMware, Microsoft Azure Cloud and other software.
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