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To list your physical drives, use the following cmdlet:

gdr | where {$_.Provider.Name -eq "FileSystem"}

gdr is an alias for Get-PSDrive, which includes all of the "virtual drives" for the registry, etc.

"Hyper-V Server" is the free version that runs on Server Core. It has no GUI, but can be managed using PowerShell or by installing the Hyper-V Manager console on a workstation running Vista or Windows 7, or Server 2008.

• Managing Hyper-V Server using PowerShell

Some things I always do when setting up a Hyper-V Server:

• Enable RDP using the Hyper-v Server config tool

The server config tool is C:\Windows\System32\sconfig.cmd, but you can just type "sconfig" to run it. You can disable it from automatically starting at logon, it's a menu option.

I found this on Virtualization Admin, but I think it refers to an older version of the library as some commands were different.

Management Library for Hyper-V

Make sure to download the PDF documentation, it shows you how to load the module and which Cmdlets are available.

Run install.cmd, that will install the files etc.Then run "import-module C:\Program Files\modules\Hyper-V.psd1"

You can type Get-VMState to list VMs and whether they are running

Start-VM "VM Name" to start it.

You may get the following error when trying to install a Kaseya agent using LAN Watch: The network path was not found.

The process will use the ADMIN share, so first make sure that you can browse to \\PC\ADMIN$

The firewall on the remote PC may be blocking you from doing this, so try disabling it.

It may also be due to incorrect or duplicate DNS registrations, or incorrect NetBIOS resolutions on the server.

Check the DNS and reverse DNS records on the server for the PC in question. If there are any duplicates, remove the bad entries.

The run the following on the server:

ipconfig /flushdns
nbtstat -rR
arp -d *

A member of the Kaseya forums mentions that before a deployment they always go into DNS, set scavenging to just a few hours and run it, then go into the reverse DNS section and delete all entries except the pointers for servers and domain.

Register a DLL silently: %SystemRoot%\System32\regsvr32.exe /s <path-to-DLL-or-OCX>

Suppose you wanted to call a program or another script from within your batch file. There are at least two ways of doing this that I know about.

First, you can just enter the path to the executable, like so:

c:\windows\notepad.exe

Run the script and notepad will open. You'll notice that the command window stays open until notepad is closed, because the script waits for the command to exit before it continues processing.

If you want to continue immediately without waiting for notepad to close, you can use the "start" command, like so:

start c:\windows\notepad.exe

The start command can do other things like adjusting priority, etc. Just type "start /?" to get an idea.

Sometimes you want to ask a question in a batch script, and do something based upon the response. You can use the set command and an if statement to achieve this:

set RESPONSE=
echo Read backup log? (y/n)
set /p RESPONSE=
if /i (%RESPONSE%)==(y) notepad Backup.log

You can split a command onto the next line with ^ provided the next line starts with a space. eg.

robocopy C:\Backup X:\Backup^
 /XD "C:\Backup\Excluded 1"^
 "C:\Backup\Excluded 2"