When working with files and folders, one of the things we do often is zip (compress) them, either for smaller archives or possibly to send as an attachment via email. In this short post, I’ll show how we can use 7-zip to compress a folder and email it using PowerShell.
A few posts back I described how you can document your Veeam backup job settings. This gives a great overview, especially if you have many jobs to keep track of. As I mentioned, I had found a few inconsistencies across jobs and in this post I’ll show how to update all jobs via a small script. You can imagine the time saved by not having to open each and every job, check the settings and update if needed.
Changing passwords is always one of those fun tasks for any admin. It becomes even more challenging when your a Windows admin over hundreds of individual servers that are not part of the same domain. Here’s my take on a PowerShell script to change the password of a local user on a remote system (or many remote systems), regardless of domain status.
A few months back I came across this article from Luca Dell’Oca – Check multiple job settings in Veeam Backup & Replication with Powershell. As he describes, this is a great way to get a good view of your backup jobs. When you have a few hands in the mix, over time with lots of jobs, human error is going to happen. A missed check box here, incorrect setting there. You’ll be surprised what you may find the first time you look. So I decided to finally take his advice and create a quick report that dumps the job details to a csv file.
Find the latest version here.
Here’s a PowerCLI script I have been playing with for a while that helps with deploying multiple VMs.
Highlights include deploying both Windows and Linux VMs via Customization Specification enabling the setting of hostname, IP address, etc. The script uses help from LucD to deploy using -RunAsync which speeds things up tremendously.
It’s a bit lengthy, with a rudimentary level of logging and error catching but has served me well.