I required a script that would run automatically for a user from a RunOnce key. This powershell script gives the user a message box asking if they would like to restart now or later. If they choose “yes” it will reboot now, if they choose “No” or “Cancel” it will not restart but will give…
Here’s a little script I created that was useful to check the amount of physical RAM installed on a Hyper-V server running core. It reports the amount of physical RAM in the host as well as the amount of RAM which is actually visible and addressable to the server. It also reports the RAM which…
To calculate the cost of licensing for Server 2016, it’s necessary to know how many cores each CPU of your server is running. This WMI query is useful in identifying that.
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[cc lang="powershell"]$property = "systemname", "deviceid", "name", "maxclockspeed","addressWidth", "numberOfCores", "NumberOfLogicalProcessors" Get-WmiObject -class win32_processor -Property $property | Select-Object -Property $property[/cc] |
It’s possible to configure a Hyper-V host running core to be fully managed remotely. I have read various suggestions on the web saying it’s better and more secure to leave the Hyper-V host in a workgroup, but the effort required when doing that just doesn’t make it worth it in my opinion.And we actually want…
I recently used this on a Hyper-V build. It should provide enough network connectivity to add your server to the Active Directory domain. Find connected NICs and interface names
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[cc lang="powershell"]Get-NetAdapter[/cc] |
Configure IP address
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[cc lang="powershell"]New-NetIPAddress -InterfaceAlias "NIC1" -IPAddress 10.20.0.141 -AddressFamily IPv4 -PrefixLength 24 -DefaultGateway 10.20.0.1[/cc] |
Configure DNS Servers
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[cc lang="powershell"]Set-DnsClientServerAddress -InterfaceAlias "NIC1" -ServerAddresses 10.20.0.133[/cc] |
Configure the suffix search list
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[cc lang="powershell"]Set-DnsClientGlobalSetting -SuffixSearchList corp.contoso.com[/cc] |
Here is a list of all the connector configs that are currently in place from onsite-O365… sorry for the mammoth post Receive connectors Get-ReceiveConnector –Server contosoxch01.contoso.com Identity Bindings Enabled ——– ——– ——- CONTOSOXCH01Default CONTOSOXCH01 {0.0.0.0:2525, [::]:2525} True CONTOSOXCH01Client Proxy CONTOSOXCH01 {[::]:465, 0.0.0.0:465} True CONTOSOXCH01Default Frontend CONTOSOXCH01 {[::]:25, 0.0.0.0:25} True CONTOSOXCH01Outbound Proxy Frontend…