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Random PowerShell/PowerCLI Snippets

13 Mar 2020

Cleaning out a few browser tabs, which of course means putting things where I will remember them. This time, that is a bunch of random PowerShell and PowerCLI I’ve been using.

The Snippets

The following sections will state if the snippet is either [PowerShell] or [PowerCLI] and include a link to the site where I found said snippet. The PowerCLI snippets assume a connection to either vCenter or ESXi.

[PowerCLI] Get IP Address of VM

(Get-VM -Name test01).Guest.IPAddress

vsaiyan.info (@vSaiyanman)

[PowerShell] Create an Empty File (touch)

# New file
New-Item -ItemType file example.txt

# Update timestamp on a file
(gci example.txt).LastWriteTime = Get-Date

https://superuser.com/a/540935

[PowerCLI] Rescan All HBAs

# Rescans all HBAs on all hosts
Get-VMHost | Get-VMHostStorage -RescanAllHba

# Rescans all HBAs in a given cluster
Get-Cluster -Name "ProVMware" | Get-VMHost | Get-VMHostStorage -RescanAllHba

Note: The fact that I wrote this post about a decade ago still blows my mind.

vbrownbag.com

[PowerShell] Measure Execution Time (time 'someCommand')

Measure-Command { Get-VMHost | GetVMHostStorage -RescanAllHba }

Microsoft Docs

[PowerShell] Windows Event Logs

Get-EventLog -LogName Security -EntryType Error -Newest 5

Microsoft Docs

[PowerShell] Disable Windows Defender Firewall

Set-NetFirewallProfile -Profile Domain,Public,Private -Enabled False

[PowerShell] List / Add Windows Defender Firewall Rules

# List the rules. This produces A LOT of output
Get-NetFirewallRule

# Disables outbound telnet
New-NetFirewallRule -DisplayName "Block Outbound Telnet" -Direction Outbound -Program %SystemRoot%\System32\tlntsvr.exe –Protocol TCP –LocalPort 23 -Action Block –PolicyStore domain.contoso.com\gpo_name

Microsoft Docs

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