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 # Fix the locked changed block tracking file for vms in a VMWare environment.
# It it achieved by flipping the changed block tracking settings.
# Snapshot is used as an alternative so the setting can be changed.
# Requires VMWare PowerCLI 5.1 and PowerShell V3 or above.

#Add the required PowerPLI cmdlets
Add-PSSnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core

#Parameters
$vCenter="vCenter"

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# !/bin/bash

# Please manually download the omi-1.0.8.4.
# The wget doesn't work because of the javascript used in the site
# https://collaboration.opengroup.org/omi/documents/34607/omi-1.0.8.4.packages.tar.gz

yum -y install pam-devel
yum -y install openssl-devel

# wget https://collaboration.opengroup.org/omi/documents/34607/omi-1.0.8.4.packages.tar.gz

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<#
This is not a complete code and inteneded to be used with other codes.
The goal is to grab a collection of names, vms..etc  and then:
    - Do some work to the collection in smaller batches
    - The batch work should be sent to background for "parallel" execution
    - Have a way to check the status of each object in the batch work
    - If completed work(s) is found, pull next object(s) from the collection

The status of last batch is not tracked. Improvements can be made in future version.     
#>

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<#
.Synopsis
   A wrapper for the tasklist /v /s COMPUTERNAME
.DESCRIPTION
   This is a wrapper for the tasklist command. In the case PowerShell remoting is not available, this cmdlet would be useful to gather the process infromation.

#>
function Get-Tasklist
{
    [CmdletBinding()]

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function Get-PSWindowsUpdateLog
{
<#
.Synopsis
Parsing WindowsUpdate.log to objects for easy reporting. Default will retrieve the most recent 100 entires only.
.DESCRIPTION
This function will retrieve and then parse the c:\windows\system32\WindowsUpdate.log on local or remote computers. Using the -all parameter, the full log will be retrieved but this could be lengthy.
.EXAMPLE
PS E:\_PSTemp> Get-PSWindowsUpdateLog -ComputerName localhost

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# Source: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/mssmallbiz/2016/07/10/how-to-download-all-of-the-free-ebooks-and-resources-in-my-free-ebooks-giveaway/
# Source: http://www.mssmallbiz.com/ericligman/Key_Shorts/MSFTFreeEbooks.txt
# Script for convenience. No proper error handling whatsoever. Saves to user's download\FreeEbook folder.


# Parsing the http links
$LinkSource = 'http://www.mssmallbiz.com/ericligman/Key_Shorts/MSFTFreeEbooks.txt'
$link = ((Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $LinkSource).content -split "`n" | where {$_ -like 'http://*'}).trim()

$path = '~\Downloads\FreeEBook'

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[ipaddress](((invoke-webrequest -Uri 'http://checkip.amazonaws.com/').Content | % {[char]$_}) -join '').trim()

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$instances = Get-ec2instance -Filter @(@{name = 'platform'; value = 'windows'})
foreach ($i in $instances){
    $prop = @{   
        Name = $i.Name
        password = Get-EC2PasswordData -InstanceId $i.InstanceId -PemFile "C:\path\to\private\keys\$($i.KeyName).pem"
        InstanceId = $i.instances.InstanceId
    }
    $obj = New-Object -TypeName psobject -Property $prop

    $obj

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Only in PS Core 6

Cmdlet	Module
Remove-Service	Microsoft.PowerShell.Management
Get-Uptime	Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility
Remove-Alias	Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility

Only in PS 5.1 Desktop (i.e missing from PS Core 6)

|Cmdlet|Module|

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Credit: Mark Kraus
Website: https://get-powershellblog.blogspot.com

Collection Type Guidence

When to use what

• Use Arrays if you know the element types and have a fixed length and/or known-up-front collection size that will not change.
• Use ArrayList if you have an unkown collection size with either unknown or mixed type elements.
• Use a Generic List when know the type of the elements but not the size of the collection.
• Use a HashTable if you are going to do key based lookups on a collection and don't know the object type of the elements.
• Use a Dictionary<TKey, TValue> you are going to do key based lookups on a collection and you know the type of the elements.
• Use a HashSet when you know the type of elements and just want unique values and quick lookups and assignmnets.