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Sat, Jun 2 2012 15:20

Toggling between LAN and Wireless

One of the questions in the recent Scripting Games involved toggling between a wireless and LAN connection. Only one was to be up at any one time. This can be solved using WMI but becomes hugely simpler in Windows 8/2012 as we get a bunch of cmdlets for...
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Sat, Jun 2 2012 13:33

Using Windows 2012 Active Directory module in a Windows 2008 R2 domain

A question came up on Tuesdays UK PowerShell Group session about using the Windows 2012 Active Directory module. The recording links are here http://msmvps.com/blogs/richardsiddaway/archive/2012/05/30/may-2012-powershell-group-recording-and-slides.aspx...
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Thu, May 31 2012 19:47

Scheduled tasks on clusters

This post shows how to use PowerShell in Windows Server 2012 to configure scheduled tasks that apply across the whole cluster not just a single node http://blogs.msdn.com/b/clustering/archive/2012/05/31/10312527.aspx Well worth a read
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Wed, May 30 2012 20:05

May 2012 Powershell group recording and slides

  The recording, slides and demo scripts from last nights session  - Powershell in Windows Server 8 part 2  - is available from https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=43cfa46a74cf3e96#cid=43CFA46A74CF3E96&id=43CFA46A74CF3E96%212966 The full...
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Sun, May 27 2012 17:54

May UG meeting reminder

Quick reminder that the UK PowerShell group session on PowerShell in Windows 2012 is on Tuesday 29 May. Details from http://msmvps.com/blogs/richardsiddaway/archive/2012/05/08/uk-powershell-group-may-2012.aspx
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Tue, Apr 24 2012 21:04

UK PowerShell Group–April 2012 slides and recording

The slides, demo script and recording are available from https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=43cfa46a74cf3e96#cid=43CFA46A74CF3E96&id=43CFA46A74CF3E96%212957 Thank you again to everyone who attended the Live Meeting this evening
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Fri, Apr 13 2012 14:49

UK PowerShell Group–24 April 2012

This months meeting is the first of two looking at the new PowerShell functionality in Windows Server 8. Yes, there is so much it will take two sessions! When: Tuesday, Apr 24, 2012 7:30 PM (BST) Where: Virtual *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* This is the first of...
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Fri, Mar 16 2012 23:25

Up coming User group sessions

The sessions for the next few months are: 27 March – PowerShell v3 CIM cmdlets and “cmlets over objects” April – Managing Windows Server 8 with PowerShell May – Managing Windows Server 8 with PowerShell No thats not a mistake – there is so much new PowerShell...
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Sun, Mar 11 2012 18:24

Setting a Network address in Windows Server 8

  Windows Server 8 & Windows 8 bring a host of new functionality to us. I wanted to try out some of it so created a new VM and installed the OS – went for full GUI for now Opened PowerShell and ran Set-ExecutionPolicy remotesigned Enable-PSRemoting...
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Thu, Mar 8 2012 19:38

PowerShell web access

Would you like to be able to access a PowerShell console in a web browser to manage your remote machines? You would – then PowerShell web access in Windows Server 8 is just for you Introductory details here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive...
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Thu, Mar 1 2012 22:03

Server 8 Beta PowerShell

I downloaded the Windows Server 8 beta overnight and spun up a virtual machine. We get PowerShell v3 beta plus and whole host of modules ADDeploymentWF AppLocker Appx BestPractices BitsTransfer BranchCache CimCmdlets DirectAccessClientComponents Dism...
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Thu, Mar 1 2012 18:42

Windows 8 and PowerShell 3 betas

If you haven’t already heard there are new toys available Windows 8 beta is available from http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows-8/download Windows Server 8 beta is available from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/windows-server/v8-default...
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Mon, Jan 9 2012 20:17

CIM instances

We are use to using Get-WmiObject to retrieve information from WMI. if you have been following this blog for any length of time you will have see lots of examples of that particular cmdlet. The CIM equivalent is Get-CIMInstance. It might appear that Get...
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Fri, Jan 6 2012 20:41

WMI and CIM

Do you know the difference between WMI and CIM? CIM is the Common Information Model - http://www.dmtf.org/standards/cim “CIM provides a common definition of management information for systems, networks, applications and services, and allows for vendor...
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Wed, Oct 26 2011 21:08

PowerShell, Storage, WMI and Windows Server 8

A must read if you are interested in any of these http://blogs.technet.com/b/server-cloud/archive/2011/10/14/windows-server-8-standards-based-storage-management.aspx   WMI is getting everywhere these days – better learn it quick
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Sun, Oct 2 2011 20:20

PowerShell 3 and DHCP: scope options

In this post - http://msmvps.com/blogs/richardsiddaway/archive/2011/09/23/powershell-3-and-dhcp-2-scopes.aspx - we created a new DHCP scope. Now we need to set some options on the scope. One of the main options we need to set is the DNS server We can...
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Fri, Sep 23 2011 19:26

PowerShell 3 and DHCP 2: scopes

In this post http://msmvps.com/blogs/richardsiddaway/archive/2011/09/20/powershell-and-dhcp-1-servers.aspx I showed how we could discover DHCP server information Scopes can be discovered Get-DhcpServerv4Scope -ComputerName server02  -ScopeId 10.10...
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Tue, Sep 20 2011 22:27

PowerShell and DHCP: 1 – servers

Remember that yesterday I loaded the RSAT tools on to my Windows 8 server instance. This includes a PowerShell module that auto loads – like all Windows 8 modules on the PS module path Start by looking at the GET commands Get-Command -Module DhcpServer  ...
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Mon, Sep 19 2011 22:09

Windows Server remote server admin tools

I added the RSAT tools using the server manager module PS> Get-Command -Module servermanager CommandType     Name -----------     ---- Alias           Add-WindowsFeature...
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Sun, Sep 18 2011 15:50

DNS cmdlets in PowerShell 3

There are a number of modules related to DNS ModuleType Name ---------- ---- Manifest   DnsClient Manifest   DnsConfig Binary     DnsLookup Manifest   DnsNrpt If we start with the DnsClient module we get...
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