Ok, im not sure if this is true or not but I have heard a couple of ramblings about VI4 recently, I didnt even know there was a VI4 beta.

I wonder if there will be any more news at VMWorld (September 15-18)

OK, so you have just rebuilt your DNS/WINS server and it has a new IP address, now you have to log into every server that you gave a static address to and update the DNS/WINS…or do you ?

Not anymore, thanks to FatBeard

The following powershell script will do it for you by using PowerShell, you only need PowerShell on the machine you are running it from, not the servers you are changing as this is done through WMI. Even reads the server name entries from a text file !

function Set-DNSWINS {
#Get NICS via WMI
$NICs = Get-WmiObject ‘
-Class Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration ‘
–ComputerName $_ ‘
-Filter “IPEnabled=TRUE”

foreach($NIC in $NICs) {
$DNSServers = “12.34.5.67”,”76.54.3.21″
$NIC.SetDNSServerSearchOrder($DNSServers)
$NIC.SetDynamicDNSRegistration(“TRUE”)
$NIC.SetWINSServer(“12.345.67.890”, “12.345.67.891”)
}
}

function Get-FileName {
$computer = Read-Host “Filename of computer names?”
return $computer
}

$f = Get-FileName
Get-Content $f foreach {Set-DNSWINS}

Ok, as a newbie to Powerhsell it still amazes me how clever it is, whilst i was writing my recent report script which takes the results of various commands and outputs them to a word document for a report I was stuck with the properties of one of the objects.

I had been trying to translate some of the documented vbscript’s from the msdn site and use the same features as there wasnt much documentation for doing this in powershell at the moment on the web, I really got stuck finding the properties so i experimeted with get-member, check this out…

$msWord = New-Object -Com Word.Application

Which creates a new word com object

$msword | get-member

Didnt expect this to do anything as how would powershell know the properties of a com object but wait, look what i recieved….

AMAZING! I could then find the property I wanted and send it the syntax i needed, how cool !

Last night my sometimes working hit counter said I had over 1000 hits, just wanted to say a big thank you to anyone that has bothered to read the ramblings of a lonely IT contractor and a bigger thanks to those of you who have come back again !

For those of you who are not going to VMworld (Everyone I know in the UK) you can keep up to date by using the following blog where they will post the latest news and information….

http://vmworldunderground.ning.com/

VMware Workstation 6.5 Release Candidate
Latest Version: Release Candidate| 8/18/08 | Build 110068

Now available at:  http://www.vmware.com/communities/content/beta/ws65/welcome.html

VIOPS has now gone production at http://viops.vmware.com ready for its launch in Vegas.

Check this out, its good stuff.