Category Archives: Powershell

Powershell: Determine the image type (x64/x86) of an exe file

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based on this stackoverflow post I’ve written a powershell function to determine the image type of an Windows executable. The Powershells System.IO.FileSystemInfo type does not provide such an info.
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VMware: Set NTP Server of all ESXi Host conntected to vCenter

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attached to this post a PowerCli script to change NTP Server on all ESXi Servers connected to vCenter.
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Powershell: md5sum and sha256sum Functions

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verifing of a file is often done by builting an MD5 or an sha256 hash over it.

Powershell has no “builtin” functions for this purposes.

So I wrote some πŸ™‚
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Windows 10: Powershell Script to protect your privacy

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this Powershell script is a try to protect your privacy in Windows 10.
Update 17.08.2016: Lot of adjustment to Windows 10 1607. Added more documentation
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VMware: Set DNS Server of all ESXi Host conntected to vCenter

Hi,

this is a script to set the DNS Servers for all ESXi Hosts connected to vCenter.

Usage is very simple. Open a PowerCli Command shell. The script accept 2 parameters. “vc” = the vCenter and “s” is the a comma separarted list of DNS Servers.

PS D:\temp> .\SetHostDNS.ps1 -vc yourVCenterServer.yourdomain -s 8.8.4.4,8.8.8.8
Set DNS Server at host1.yourdomain ... ok
Set DNS Server at host2.yourdomain ... ok

Thats all πŸ™‚

Michael