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Monthly Archives: April 2007

PowerShell script to backup Exchange with NTBackup

10-Apr-07

On Nick’s Exchange and Scripting Blog there is a good post about scripting NTBackup to backup Exchange databases. Besides the fact that I did not know about the NTBackup optimizations and an enhanced version of NTBackup in Windows Server 2003 SP1, the post is also very informative when it comes to PowerShell. It shows:

making registry […]

PowerShell script to check ESX patch status

06-Apr-07

You can use the simple PowerShell script below to check ESX server patching status from your Windows client. Requirements:

.NET Framework 2.0
PowerShell v1.0
plink.exe (from the Putty download page) in your path
An account and password to remotely connect over SSH and execute the command esxupdate query.
Change the $servers array with your servers and also update the $account and […]