Use PowerShell to Remove a Stubborn VM
During a recent cleanup effort in the System Center Virtual Machine Manager console, I found a powered off guest machine. The status showed the VM as having an “Unsupported Cluster Configuration State”.
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Check Remote Services with Powershell
If you need to check the status of a service across several machines, and don’t have monitoring in place, you can use PowerShell to get Running/Stopped/Starting status quickly.
How to Open an Elevated Command Prompt
There is something of a mantra in the IT world: If it has to be repeated more than once, script it and automate it. The same goes for Q&A. If more than one person asks about it, write it down. So here you go.
PXE Boot a VM in Hyper-V
In most technology environments, automation is everything. Part of that automation is the deployment of operating systems to servers and workstations via Windows Deployment Services, with help of PXE boot. Here’s how to PXE boot a guest in Hyper-V.
Install Roles on Windows via PowerShell
Just because you don’t have a GUI on your Windows Server 2012 doesn’t mean you can’t install roles and features at will. Use PowerShell, and the job gets easy.
SharePoint 2013 on Windows 2012 R2
If you’re trying to install SharePoint 2013 on Windows Server 2012 R2, and you’re getting caught in a reboot loop (or other weird behavior), stop.
SCOM: Recipient Address Not Valid
System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) is a great tool for monitoring your infrastructure. Configured correctly, it can let you know when things go awry, and even take action to fix the problem. But what happens when it stops speaking to you?
Hardening Windows Server
This guide is intended to provide basic systems administration instruction for hardening “out-of-the-box” installations of Windows Server. Even though current versions of Windows Server provides a better security model than previous versions of Windows servers, the attack surface area can be reduced further.
Create a System Restore Point with VBscript
This handy little VBscript to create a system restore point can be encapsulated in a function and can save you from yourself.
Create 5000 AD Users with VBScript
From time to time, it might be required that large number of generic user account objects be created in an Active Directory domain. Here is how to do it, quickly.