Richard Siddaway's Blog : Windows Server 2008

Codeplex AD Replication Module

RichardSiddaway — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 08:25:44 GMT

The other codeplex project that caught my eye was a brand new one to create a PowerShell module to manage AD replication. This one will be very useful and one I will be using a lot.

There is still time for suggestions as to content for this project – see http://adreplicationmodule.codeplex.com/

Technorati Tags: PowerShell v2,Active Directory,Replication

Codeplex PowerShell Configurator

RichardSiddaway — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 08:18:28 GMT

I was looking at codeplex (Microsoft’s Open Source site) and decided to do a search for projects relating to PowerShell. 161 projects were returned. The first 110 had an obvious PowerShell connection. This is a tremendous number and really does demonstrate the strength of the PowerShell community.

One project that caught my eye was James O’Neill’s PowerShell configurator for Server 2008 R2 Core and Hyper Server R2. Its done as a PowerShell v2 module with the following functions

Managing installed software , drivers and updates

Add-Driver, Get-Driver
Add-HotFix ,
Add-InstalledProduct ,Get-InstalledProduct , , Remove-InstalledProduct,
Add-WindowsFeature , Get-WindowsFeature, Remove-WindowsFeature
Add-WindowsUpdate, Get-WindowsUpdateConfig , Set-WindowsUpdateConfig

Managing the windows Firewall

Get-FirewallConfig , Set-FirewallConfig, Get-FirewallProfile , Get-FireWallRule

IP Networking

Get-NetworkAdapter, Get-IpConfig , New-IpConfig , Remove-IpConfig, Set-IpConfig

Licensing

Get-Registration , Register-Computer

Page file

Get-ShutDownTracker , Set-ShutDownTracker

Remote Desktop

Get-RemoteDesktopConfig , Set-RemoteDesktop

Other Windows Configuration

Get-WinRMConfig
Rename-Computer
Set-iSCSIConfig
Set-RegionalConfig

There shouldn’t be any reason why it won’t work on full fat Windows so I’ll definitely be trying it out. Download from http://psconfig.codeplex.com/

Technorati Tags: Powershell v2,CodePlex,PowerShell Configurator

HP G60

RichardSiddaway — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 08:57:59 GMT

I am currently using a HP G60 laptop. Runs Windows 7 very well. I created a dual boot environment so I could install Windows 2008 R2 and to my pleasant surprise found Hyper-V runs on it. Need to enable virtualisation in the BIOS but apart from that slight hiccup it installs and works very well. Once I get the RTM version it will be time to finally abandon Virtual PC.

Also gives me a chance to play with James’ Hyper-V library.

Technorati Tags: Windows 2008 R2

Password Policy

Richard Siddaway's Blog — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:17:24 GMT

As I mentioned in an earlier post I am reading the Study Guide for the Exchange 2007 Design Exam (70-237). There is quite a good section on security that goes beyond the normal Exchange stuff. In fact the book overall is good in that the topic coverage...(read more)

Windows 2008 R2 AD

Richard Siddaway's Blog — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:15:42 GMT

Dmitry has blogged about the new features in Windows 2008 R2 AD - http://dmitrysotnikov.wordpress.com/2008/11/04/server-2008-r2-active-directory/ - especially the PowerShell support. I will be attending the repeat session later in the week and will post...(read more)

Windows 2008 R2

Richard Siddaway's Blog — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:44:34 GMT

For a preview of some of the Windows 2008 R2 features check out http://www.markwilson.co.uk/blog/2008/10/just-a-few-of-the-new-features-to-expect-in-windows-server-2008-r2.htm Share this post : Technorati Tags: Windows 2008 R2...(read more)