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Recently I have tried to do a P2V of a Windows Server 2008 SP2 x64 Server: a physical server to a Hyper-V server. To achieve my goal, I used the Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter 3.1 utility. All was fine during the configuration phase until I got to the actual migration part. The Wizard was failing […]
In the following tutorial, we will see how to deploy a simple Active Directory Certificate Services installation and configure it as a Standalone CA. Our first step is to go to Server Manager, Add/Remove roles, and start the installation process. Under Roles, we select Active Directory Certificate Services. Next, we need to choose which role […]
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Hello fellow sys admins! In the following article, we will walk through an in-place upgrade from Windows Server 2008 R2 to 2012 R2. So let us dive right in. The first step in any upgrade is to get the Installation Media. If you are using a Virtual Machine, then it’s as simple as adding the […]
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In this article we’ll go over the following script that helps us remove resource reservations from all VMs within a VMware cluster. Here is the script that we are going to use: #Variable Declaration Param( [string]$server, [Parameter(Mandatory=$true)][string]$username, [Parameter(Mandatory=$true)][string]$password, [string]$cluster ) #Module Initialization Add-PSSnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core #Body Connect-VIServer -Server $server -Username $username -Password $password $vms = Get-Cluster […]
I have just patched some of my Windows Server 2016 servers with the new May 2018 KB, which fixes a CredSSP vulnerability, but at the same time creates an issue when trying to RDP from a non-patched system. After I finished my workday, one of the project managers sent me a message saying RDP is […]
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In this article we will go over a simple script that lists all the empty resource pools in a VMware Cluster. This script comes in handy and is a very nice addition to any scripting repository where there are large VMware deployments. #Variable Declaration Param( [Parameter(Mandatory=$true)][string]$server, [Parameter(Mandatory=$true)][string]$username, [Parameter(Mandatory=$true)][string]$password, [Parameter(Mandatory=$true)][string]$cluster ) #Module Initialization Add-PSSnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core Connect-VIServer […]
Hello and welcome to another tutorial on using PowerShell with Azure in order to create a new Virtual Machine resource from an existing VHD. From time to time, we might need to copy a Virtual Machine environment from our Hyper-V environment to Azure and create a new VM Instance. To complete this task we will […]
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In this article I will present to you a small script that lets us get a list of all users from a specific Office 365 Tenant. The Script: Import-Module AzureAutomationAuthoringToolkit $username = “migadm@titanbuckle.com” $password = ConvertTo-SecureString “Muva9659” -AsPlainText -Force $creds = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential($username, $password) Connect-MsolService -Credential $creds $users = Get-MsolUser ForEach ($user in $users) { […]
The following tutorial will show us how to deploy a Domain Controller using the Install from Media option (IFM). This tutorial will also help you prepare for the 70-742 certification exam. Before we dive into the step-by-step part of this article, let’s look at the reasons why we would do an IFM install in the […]
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In case you didn’t see my last article about automating the creation of Port Groups in an enterprise VMware environment, I highly recommend you do, since this second script is all about copying the existing Port Groups from one host to a new one. This is useful when we are adding a new host to […]
