Train a Monkey to do the boring stuff - The Workshop

Introduction

This repository is intended for instructor led training purposes. I is created to facilitate a VMUG workshop in Denmark held in May 2022.

The workshop is intended to be executed in a VMware Hands On Lab environment. Details will follow this short introduction.

HOL Lab

HOL-2201-06-CMP

vRO URL - https://vr-automation.corp.local/vco/

Logins

Resource	Username	Password
vSphere Client	administrator@vsphere.local	VMware1!
vRO Control Panel	root	VMware1!
vRO Client	holadmin	VMware1!
Windows VM (windows-0602)	administrator	VMware1!

# Clone Git repository
mkdir C:\Users\Administrator\Documents\Github
cd C:\Users\Administrator\Documents\Github
git clone https://github.com/KnutssonDevelopment/Train-a-Monkey-to-do-the-boring-stuff/
cd Train-a-Monkey-to-do-the-boring-stuff

PSWindowsUpdate

The Real PSWindowsUpdate module has been replaced with a fake modules that only outputs to the screen, and can do an automatic reboot.

TODO

Setup script

• Create bookmarks for relevant URLs
• Delete irrelevant URLs
• Snapshot Windows VM
  • Shutdown windows-0602
  • Take a base snapshot
  • PowerOn windows-0602
• Enable Windows Update Service
  • Revert WU GPO
  • Set Service to Manuel
  • Reboot VM
• Prepare Windows for scripting
  • Install-Module PSWindowsUpdate -Confirm:$false

# Install PSWindowsUpdate from GIT Repo
net use Z: \\windows-0602\c$
xcopy PSModules\PSWindowsUpdate 'Z:\Program Files\WindowsPowershell\Modules\'