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PowerShell remoting and upgrading to Windows 2012

I have a number of virtual machines running Windows 2008 R2 and I upgraded one of them to Windows 2012 – an over the top upgrade rather than a format and clean install I found that Get-PSSession –Computername didn’t work against that machine. This...

Published Sun, Sep 09 2012 10:40 AM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: Windows Server 2008 R2, Remoting, PowerShell V3, Windows Server 2012

Using Windows 2012 Active Directory module in a Windows 2008 R2 domain

A question came up on Tuesdays UK PowerShell Group session about using the Windows 2012 Active Directory module. The recording links are here http://msmvps.com/blogs/richardsiddaway/archive/2012/05/30/may-2012-powershell-group-recording-and-slides.aspx...

Published Sat, Jun 06 2012 7:33 AM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: Windows Server 2008 R2, PowerShell and Active Directory, PowerShell V3, Windows Server 8

BITS posts

BITS is the Background Intelligent Transfer Service. I’ve started a series of posts on using the PowerShell BITS cmdlets on my IT Knowledge Exchange blog 1 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/powershell/bits/ 2 http://itknowledgeexchange...

Published Sun, Mar 03 2012 2:51 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell V2, Windows Server 2008 R2, BITS

Remoting between PowerShell v3 CTP 2 and PowerShell v2

One of the questions on tonight’s Live Meeting concerned the compatibility between remoting on PowerShell v2 and PowerShell v3 CTP 2 The difference is that v3 uses a WSMAN 3.0 stack but v2 uses 2.0 I used two machines: Windows 2008 R2 SP 1 with PowerShell...

Published Tue, Jan 01 2012 4:35 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell V2, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, PowerShell V3

AD account Expiry date

In many organisations AD accounts for temporary works are set to expiry when their contract ends. Its also a good practice to put an expiry date on any one who is leaving – that way you know their account won’t available. Setting the expiry date...

Published Mon, Jul 07 2011 1:47 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: Windows Server 2008 R2, PowerShell and Active Directory

Using AccountManagement classes to set local accounts expiry

This is a little more verbose than the WinNT example function set-expirydate { [ CmdletBinding ( SupportsShouldProcess = $true ) ] param ( [ parameter ( ValueFromPipeline = $true , ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName = $true ) ] [string] $computer , [ parameter...

Published Fri, Jul 07 2011 4:20 AM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: IT Security, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, PowerShell and Active Directory, Windows Server 2008

Setting local account expiry dates

Setting expiry dates on AD accounts is a common occurrence and is well documented. Setting expiry dates on local accounts is also possible $user = [adsi] "WinNT://./Test1, user" $expirydate = ( Get-Date ) . AddDays ( 2 ) $user . Put ( "AccountExpirationDate"...

Published Fri, Jul 07 2011 4:15 AM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: IT Security, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, PowerShell and Active Directory, Windows Server 2008

Windows SysInternals Administrators Reference

Windows SysInternals Administrators Reference Title: Windows SysInternals Administrators Reference Publisher: Microsoft Press ISBN: 978-0-7356-5672-7 The SysInternals tool set – http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/default.aspx –...

Published Wed, Jul 07 2011 3:50 AM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: Technology, Books, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008

Network Connection Ids

Yesterday I was looking at changing a Network connection id (the name that shows in Network and Sharing Center when you look at the adapters). I kept getting an error – either COM or number of arguments depending if I was running locally or remotely....

Published Wed, Jun 06 2011 1:41 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell and WMI, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2

Networking pains

Last week my wireless router decided that it had enough and wasn’t going to work any more. This was annoying because I was due to give a user group presentation that night. I got a new router up and working but today discovered that connectivity from...

Published Sun, Jun 06 2011 2:57 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: Windows Server 2008 R2, Hyper-V, Virtualisation

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