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Windows Admin Center (formerly Project Honolulu)

Windows Admin Center is an evolution of Windows Server in-box management tools; it’s a single pane of glass that consolidates all aspects of local and remote server management. Windows Admin Center proposals "elastic, locally-deployed, browser-based management platform and tools". The impression beh…

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Microsoft Powershell: Export remote registry information to excel

Part 3: Configure PowerShell DSC Local configuration manager LCM in pull mode and update configuration

This is last part of configuring individual clients local configuration manager (LCM) in DSC pull mode so they can get and retrieve configuration copy every certain refresh frequency mode. You can treat LCM as an agent and it is by default there in on every system. where at least Poweshell version 4…

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Microsoft Powershell: remotely write, edit, modify new registry key and data value

Copy Files with PowerShell Remoting WINRM Protocol

Microsoft Powershell psremoting is just not limited to remoting into computers, it can also use to copy files over winrm protocol to remote system the same way, you use files are copied on traditional SMB protocol. This requires some psremoting configuration using POWERSHELL PS REMOTING BETWEEN CO…

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Set Powershell execution policy with Group Policy

In this article I will be covering configuring Windows PowerShell execution policy using Group Policy, to configure environments properly ahead of time for better management, doing this takes less time to get your work done in timely fashion. For example, I gave few ps1 PowerShell script to some of …

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Find next available free drive letter using PowerShell

Below is my one-liner small PowerShell code for finding next available free unassigned first drive letter, I use it frequently for automating mapping shared drives. This is based on Get-PSDrive -PSProvider FileSystem, it shows the all in use drive, Generally A, B (floppy drive not for use as disk or…

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Powershell: Change DNS IP addresses remotely on multiple computers using CIM & WMI

Although I had written this script around 4 years back I have again revised it to work it in more better way with status report on console. I used this script again after long time to change/update DNS ip addresses on remote Windows servers, after introducing my new upgraded DNS servers. Same task …

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POWERSHELL INSTALLING AND CONFIGURING MICROSOFT ISCSI TARGET SERVER

Warning: Windows iSCSI is not listed on VMWare HCL as Esxi iSCSI datastore. I am using it as a demo purpose.

In my previous blog I configured Microsoft iSCSI Target Server using GUI way, Here in this chapter I am utilizing Powershell to do the task. First command is to check the status of FS-iSC…

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CONVERTING FROM SERVER 2012 CORE INSTALL TO FULL GUI

There might be a chance while installation of Microsoft Windows Server setup, You might have overlooked the operating systems menus while setup installation and selected default Windows Server 2012 R2 standard (Server Core installation), first option from the list and click next or press enter. This…

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