VMware Powercli: Check and enable CDP (Cisco Discovery Protocol

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ESXi has the ability to respond to CDP requests.
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VMware Powercli: Get CDP infos for the Hosts Networkadapter

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if CDP is enabled the networkswitches gives some informations to the ESXi Hosts physical network adapters.

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XML: Selectnode XPath query independend from namespace

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i got the following xml structure and want to select just the the “Data” node with the attribute “CommandLine” without defining a namespace object first.
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OpenVPN: OpenVPN asks for a password

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after migrating to a new client and installing the latest version of OpenVPN, OpenVPN asks for a password while trying to connect to the server.
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Powershell: Encrypt and decrypt strings with the host key

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each Windows machine has it’s own host key. This can be used to encrypt data which are only decrypted by this computer.

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