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Use PowerShell to Find Where the Current FSMO Roles are Assigned in Active Directory

Apr 11, 2013 · Active Directory PowerShell ·

A while back, I had a need to figure out with PowerShell what server in an Active Directory domain held the PDC Emulator FSMO Role. I found a script on a very popular blog site that figured it out by using a command similar to this: 1Get-ADDomainController -Filter * | 2Where-Object OperationMasterRoles -contains …

Using PowerShell v3 Features to Figure Out the Mysterious PowerShell Pipeline

Apr 9, 2013 · PowerShell ·

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I actually wrote this blog a couple of weeks ago and postponed it until I could do further testing because I thought of some scenarios where it possibly wouldn’t work. I wrote a couple of new blogs over the past couple of weeks and forgot about this one. Low and behold, I had rescheduled this blog for today and forgot …

Florida PowerShell User Group March Meeting Video and Presentation Materials

Mar 21, 2013 · PowerShell ·

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The Florida PowerShell User Group March Meeting was this past Tuesday, March 19th. I was the speaker for this meeting and from what I've heard, my presentation was a huge success! We recorded the entire "PowerShell Fundamentals for Beginners" presentation: µ

PowerShell Web Access Error: “Sign-in failed. Verify that you have entered your credentials correctly.”

Mar 18, 2013 · PowerShell PowerShell Web Access ·

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Scenario: You've partnered with a company who is testing a new software application that uses PowerShell Web Access. You've provided this company with an Active Directory account named "Joe Doe". This account is only allowed to sign into the PowerShell Web Access interface of a server named WWW in the …

Use PowerShell to add an additional Domain Controller to an existing Windows Server 2012 Active Directory Domain

Mar 14, 2013 · Active Directory PowerShell Server Core Windows Server 2012 ·

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Recently, I decided to add a second domain controller to my mikefrobbins.com domain. The existing server and this new server that will become a domain controller both run the Microsoft Windows Server 2012 operating system and both were installed with the default installation type of server core (no GUI). Even though …

Use PowerShell to Remotely Enable Firewall Exceptions on Windows Server 2012

Feb 28, 2013 · PowerShell Windows Server 2012 ·

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You're attempting to view the event logs of a couple of remote Windows Server 2012 servers that have been installed with the default installation type of server core (No GUI). You receive the following error when attempting to connect to these servers using the Event Viewer snapin in an MMC console: 1Computer …

Use PowerShell to Create a Scheduled Task that Uses PowerShell to Pause and Resume AppAssure Core Replication

Feb 7, 2013 · AppAssure PowerShell ·

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In this scenario there are multiple AppAssure Core servers, one at each physical location that is used to backup the local servers. Each AppAssure Core server is setup to replicate its data to an offsite AppAssure Core server at a separate physical location across a wide area network for disaster recovery purposes. Due …

PowerShell: Determine Exposed WMI and CIM Class Methods

Dec 6, 2012 · PowerShell ·

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During last months Arizona PowerShell User Group meeting, Aleksandar Nikolić, a PowerShell MVP, posted a number of great tips in the chat during The Scripting Guy (Ed Wilson)'s presentation which was on managing Windows 8 remotely with PowerShell version 3 (An awesome session). One of the code snippets that Aleksandar …

PowerShell Magazine Brain Teaser Winner!

Nov 20, 2012 · PowerShell ·

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I received notification yesterday from PowerShell Magazine that I had won last weeks PowerShell Brain Teaser to Assign a list of processes to a variable and output it to the console. Your new task is to get a list of running processes, assign it to a variable and output the result to the console window. Use the minimal …

PowerShell: Save-Help for Modules that Aren’t Installed on the Local Computer without Copying Files

Nov 8, 2012 · PowerShell ·

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In my previous blog article on this subject, I showed how to copy the PowerShell module manifest file from a server with the module you want to download the help for to the local computer to trick it into thinking the module was installed locally, but copying files can get messy and isn't really a robust way of …