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How to Add Sleep/Wait/Pause in a PowerShell Script

By Thomas Maurer on Jan 19, 2021 02:54 pm

Many of you know the “timeout” command we used when we created Windows Batch scripts. This pauses/waits/sleeps the script for a specific amount of time. In PowerShell, we can use the Start-Sleep cmdlet to suspend/pause/sleep/wait the activity in a script or session for the specified period of time. You can use it for many tasks, …

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Find the Hostname of a Hyper-V VM

By Thomas Maurer on Jan 19, 2021 08:53 am

If you are running a virtual machine (VM) on Hyper-V, sometimes you want to know on which Hyper-V host this VM is running. If you don’t have access to the Hyper-V host, you need to find that information from within the virtual machines operating system. Luckily, the hostname of the physical Hyper-V server the virtual …

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