Checking the mouse button state in Hyper-V
Continuing in my series on Hyper-V automation; as well as being able to get the position of the mouse cursor in the virtual machine – you can also check the mouse button state. $VMName = “Windows 10...
View ArticleMaking and tuning a “safe automated mouse click”
Over the last week I have been talking about the components needed to automate the mouse in Hyper-V. This is because I have been working on some automation scripts for my environment. One problem...
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Virtual Holograms
As opposed to real holograms? Anyway, semantic issues aside, this is something that I am really excited about. About two weeks ago we announced the availability of the Hololens Emulator. This allows...
View ArticleCopy files over PowerShell Direct (and more)
We recently updated a number of the capabilities of PowerShell Direct. In Windows 10 Insider builds greater than 14280, and in Windows Server 2016, you can now create persistent PowerShell sessions...
View ArticleCapturing a Hyper-V VM Screen to a file
Here is an interesting thing you can do with Hyper-V – with a little bit of code you can grab a copy of the virtual machine display and write it out to a bitmap file: This is something that I use in a...
View ArticleReading a pixel on a VM Screen
Two weeks ago I provided a code sample that allowed you to capture a Hyper-V virtual machine screen to a bitmap. As part of this script – the virtual machine screen is stored in a Windows bitmap...
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Find a bitmap on the VM screen
Continuing with my series on how to do interesting automation stuff with Hyper-V – today I want to show you how to use PowerShell and the AForge.NET library to locate a bitmap on a virtual machine...
View ArticleWindows – Read me that virtual machine
After a couple of weeks of playing around with Hyper-V APIs for reading virtual machine screens and sending keystrokes – I hit upon an interesting idea. What would it take to make a “virtual machine...
View ArticleScript to Inventory VM Guest OSes – Updated
The other day a colleague asked me how to use PowerShell to gather information about what operating system was running inside of each virtual machine on a Hyper-V server. I went to point them to this...
View ArticleScaling out PowerShell with PowerShell Direct
I have spent a bunch of time this week working on various demos for Ignite in Atlanta. While building these demos I have been heavily using PowerShell Direct to orchestrate large sets of virtual...
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