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PowerCLI: Adding New PortGroups

I'm sure that someone somewhere has written a script exactly like this in the past but I wanted to write my own for a number of reasons. While I'll probably never be a PowerCLI hero, it really doesn't hurt to keep in practice and hone your skills. Let's start with

List VMs in PortGroups

While documenting the VI that I'm working on at present, I had cause to provide a list of which VMs were in which PortGroups. Now I have done this before but it was hardly pretty when I cut and pasted the script into a document or email so I've been

Which VMs are in which Port Groups

This took me a little while to get sorted as I had a gap in my PowerShell knowledge around the handling and formating of nested objects. A bit of exploration with get-member and I came up witha working script. It's based on a post [http://www.peetersonline.nl/index.php/

Remote Shutdown with PowerShell

Here's the scenario: You've just hit shut down in your remote desktop session. You're logged off Windows Server 2003 and your RDP session is closed. You wait a while and try to login again. Surely the server must have rebooted by now. But try as you might, you cannot get