Have you mastered PowerShell yet? Microsoft’s command-line shell and scripting language can make your life considerably easier by automating common administration tasks. It can be used in VMware ...

Amazon Web Services and VMware as Microsoft launch partners? You read it right. As part of its move toward more openness, Microsoft today said its popular and powerful PowerShell command-line ...

While not as popular a term as virtualization, PowerShell is starting to find its own place in this virtual world. For those not familiar with the technology, PowerShell was created by Microsoft as an ...

A little birdie told me this today. Well, actually his name is Dmitry. Anyhow, I never thought that I would see the day. I know people have been managing VMware infrastructure with some custom ...

PowerShell is one of Microsoft's preferred tools for managing Windows Servers. Although it's easy to think of PowerShell as a local management tool, PowerShell can just as easily be used to manage ...

Although Hyper-V checkpoints are not a substitute for backups, they do have their place. For example, some people like to create virtual machine checkpoints prior to installing updates. That way, if ...