When PowerShell opens, you can get a list of install VMs by typing Get-VM and pressing the Enter key on the keyboard. The Get-VM command will out a put of virtual machines and their names.

As you look at this command, you will notice that I am searching on VM* and not V*. The reason for this is that PowerShell seems to have a bug. If you simply use V*, it seems to ignore the letter V.

M icrosoft replaced the standard command prompt with Windows PowerShell — a much more powerful CLI-based tool that can be used for scripting and automating tasks. Along with aut ...

I could use Invoke-History. Invoke-History is a little-known command that performs a simple function. It has a single parameter called Id which represents the command ID that should be executed. Below ...

In other words I want to do as much of the things that can be done with Hyper-V manager from the command line/power shell scripts running on the console of a Core Server.

[Click on image for larger view.] Figure 6. Virutal machine sitting at the operating system installation window. From here we can continue on our way to get this virtual machine configured and send it ...