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Fri, Apr 12 2013 19:43

Creating a new disk

I really like Windows Server Core. The concept has come of age in Windows 2012. I needed to add a new disk to a virtual machine  - that’s easy using the Hyper-V cmdlets. But what about formating the disk. A module new to Windows 2012 & Windows...
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Thu, Apr 11 2013 20:50

Windows Server Backup

Windows Server 2012 has a PowerShell enabled backup utility. When you enable the feature you get a module called WindowsServerBackup.  It has the cmldets you would expect for creating and managing backups. No surprise you may say as this was avialable...
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Sat, Apr 6 2013 16:39

AD Management in a Month of Lunches

The MEAP marches on with chapter 8 now released: Chapter 8 – creating Group Policies details from http://www.manning.com/siddaway3/
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Mon, Apr 1 2013 12:16

Shutting down a remote computer

PowerShell provides the Stop-Computer cmdlet for closing down a remote machine. I find this especially useful in my virtual test environment. I’ll have several machines running but won’t necessarily have logged onto them. Using Stop-Computer means that...
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Mon, Mar 11 2013 21:08

Network Adapters–Disable/Enable

Last time we saw the Get-NetAdapter cmdlet from the NetAdapter module PS> Get-NetAdapter | ft Name, InterfaceDescription, Status -a Name     InterfaceDescription                          ...
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Mon, Mar 4 2013 20:23

Network adapters

The WMI classes Win32_NetworkAdapter and Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration have seen a lot of use over the years. They can be a bit fiddly to use which is why the NetAdapter module in Windows 8/2012 is a so welcome. Lets start by looking at basic information...
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Thu, Feb 21 2013 19:52

Creating a Windows 2012 Domain Controller

I decided to replace one of the DCs in my test environment with a Windows 2012 Server Core machine. Server Core has really come of age in Windows 2012 – its easy to configure. I’ve covered configuring a server before but to recap: Rename the machine ...
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Wed, Dec 12 2012 20:20

Creating Virtual machines #1: Creating the VM

I’ve had two projects in mind for a while.  First I need to build a new WSUS server in my virtual environment & secondly I want to automate as much of the VM creation and configuration as possible. Oh – and I’m not using SC Virtual Machine Manager...
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Tue, Oct 23 2012 18:51

DnsClient module: #2 DnsClient & Cache

The DnsClient module has a number of Get- cmdlets Get-DnsClient | Format-List InterfaceAlias, ConnectionSpecificSuffix, Register*, UseSuffix* An example of the output is InterfaceAlias                ...
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Tue, Oct 16 2012 21:29

DnsClient module: #1 Get-DnsClientServerAddress

Started to investigate the DnsClient module.  First cmdlet to catch my eye was Get-DnsClientServerAddress. Always good to know a way to find the DNS server. PS> Get-DnsClientServerAddress InterfaceAlias              ...
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Sun, Oct 14 2012 11:07

CDXML modules and nouns

CDXML modules don’t expose the verb and the noun of the cmdlets they publish.  If you want to discover the set of nouns in a CDXML module you need a bit of brute force: Get-Command -Module DhcpServer | foreach {   ($_.Name -split "-"...
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Sun, Sep 23 2012 16:40

PowerShell remoting and upgrading to Windows 2012

I have a number of  virtual machines running Windows 2008 R2 and I upgraded one of them to Windows 2012 – an over the top upgrade rather than a format and clean install I found that Get-PSSession –Computername didn’t work against that machine. This...
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Tue, Sep 11 2012 18:24

Finding the drive letter of a mounted VHD

In Windows 8/2012 you can mount a VHD into the file system. Is there a way to discover the drive letter of the mounted VHD function get-mountedvhdDrive { $disks = Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_DiskDrive | where Caption -eq "Microsoft Virtual Disk"...
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