Change CDrom drive letter with PowerShell
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Here’s just a little Powershell script to change the CDrom drive letter to another drive letter, most customers use a standardized drive letter for this type of drive.
(gwmi Win32_cdromdrive).drive | %{$a = mountvol $_ /l;mountvol
$_ /d;$a = $a.Trim();mountvol z: $a}
This script looks up the cdrom drive and changes the drive letter to Z:, so just change Z: from the script into the drive letter of choice and you’re good to go.
In Automation Manager you would configure this Powershell script like this:
I’ve used this script on ESXi guests running Windows 2003, 2008 and 2008 R2. Test this script before using it in production! I found this script on this blog.
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Kees Baggerman
Kees Baggerman is Senior Technical Director — Performance & Solutions Engineering R&D at Nutanix, where he leads a global team responsible for defining how enterprise applications are delivered on the Nutanix platform. A former Citrix Technology Professional and NVIDIA Enterprise Platform Advisor, he has spent 15+ years driving EUC strategy and technical direction across architecture, product, and customer success. He has been writing here since 2011 — sharing what he learns at the intersection of platform engineering and enterprise IT.
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