I work in IT Pro content publishing at Microsoft. I started blogs.technet.com for IT Pros and currently work on Windows Server UA - focusing on Hyper-V. I am piloting podcasting and alternative methods of publishing IT Pro information for the WinServ UA group.

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PS Script to Check Hypervisor Heartbeat

Checks if Hypervisor is running

PS Check IC Version

PS 2.0 script to Check if VM Integration components/integration services are up to date

PS - Snapshot a VM

PS 2.0 script to take a snapshot of a VM.

PS - Shut Down VM

PS 2.0 Script to Shut Down VMs

PS - Set a Custom KVP

PS 2.0 script to set a custom VM KVP

PS - Remove vNIC

PS 2.0 script to remove a virtual NIC from a VM

VB - NICHA

VB scrip to monitor the NIC used by a virtual machine in a cluster

PS - Modify VLAN Settings

PS 2.0 script to modify virtual networking settings on your virtual machines.

PS - Merge VHDs

PS 2.0 script to merge VHDs

PS - Loopback Mount a VHD

PS 2.0 script to loopback mount a VHD

PS - List VMs

PS script to list VMs from Thomas Lee

PS - Get Intrinsic KVPs

PS 2.0 script to get intrinsic KVP

PS - Get a Custom KVP

PS 2.0 script to Get a Custom KVP

PS - List Snapshots

PS 2.0 script to list VM Snapshots

PS - Expand VHD

PS 2.0 script to expand VHDs

PS - Delete VM

PS 2.0 do delete VMs

PS - Creat VSwitch

PS 2.0 script to create a virtual switch

Detect VM

Need to detect if something is running inside a VM? John Kelbely shares how, read more at: http://blogs.technet.com/tonyso/archive/2009/08/20/hyper-v-how-to-detect-if-you-are-inside-a-vm.aspx

PS - Create VM

PS 2.0 script to create VMs

PS - Create Fixed VHD

PS 2.0 script to create fixed VHDs

PS - Create Dynamic VHD

PS 2.0 script to create dynamic VHDs

PS - Create Differencing VHD

PS 2.0 script to create a differencing VHD

PS - Convert VHD

PS 2.0 script to covert VHDs

PS - Connect Switch to VM

PS 2.0 script to connect a virtual switch to a VM

PS - Connect Switch to NIC

PowerShell 2.0 script for connecting a virtual switch to a physical NIC on the HOST

PS - Compact VHD

PS 2.0 script to compact VHDs

Reset MAC Address

Script to reset MAC addresses on VMs

PS - Change VM State

PS 2.0 script to change state on VMs.

PS - Change ISO

PS 2.0 script to change the ISO in the virtual DVD Drive.

PS - Apply Snapshot

PS 2.0 script to apply snapshots to VMs

VBSCript to Set Serial Number for a VM

Examples script for setting the serial number of a Virtual PC 2007 virtual machine

Script to Reconnect A Parent Disk

Attached is a simple powershell script for calling ReconnectParentVirtualHardDisk. Use it if you are having trouble in the UI when you are trying to reconstruct a broken chain of snapshots. Copy it locally, rename it to .ps1, and run it from an elevated poweshell command prompt.

Script to Change ‘Unidentified network’ from Public to Work in WS2K8 R2

Set the category of an Unidentified network in Windows 7/WS2K8R2.