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What hypervisors are you seeing in the general public?
Scott’s post on multiple hypervisor’s got me thinking… Regardless of workload (server, VDI, DR, Test/Dev) I myself only really see one hypervisor out there… VMware. I think so many companies have built their operational policies, processes and procedures around ESX that it is going to be an incredibly difficult migration to something else. I know of […]
Tags: Citrix, cloud, ESX, esxi, microsoft, VDI, VIew, vmware, XenServer
Posted in Citrix XenDesktop, Cloud, Desktop Virtualization, Hyper-V, Linux, View, Virtualization, vmware, Windows Server 2012, XenServer | 2 Comments »
Multi-Hypervisor Thoughts
I read the post titled “Multi-hypervisor management: Have you read the fine print?” from TechRepublic and it got me thinking. I have been a proponent of challenging vSphere and looking at lower cost solutions (primarily Hyper-V) to support non-production workloads. While reading this article, it dawned on me what the heck am I thinking. Organizations […]
Posted in Cloud, Virtualization, vmware, Windows Server 2012 | 2 Comments »
List stale Active Directory computer accounts using Windows PowerShell
I was trying to identify computer accounts that had not logged in within the last 6 months. To do that, I used the get-adcomputer PowerShell cmd-let. get-adcomputer -properties lastLogonDate -filter * | where { $_.lastLogonDate -lt (get-date).addmonths(-6) } | FT Name,LastLogonDate > c:\test.txt
Tags: Active Directory, PowerShell
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List Active Directory users that have never logged in including built-in users using PowerShell
I was trying to find a way to identify what the unused user accounts were in my AD environment. I started playing with PowerShell’s get-aduser cmd-let. The working script that I came up with is below. get-aduser -f {-not ( lastlogontimestamp -like “*”) -and (enabled -eq $true)} | select name
Tags: Active Directory, PowerShell
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