Recently, I wanted to know what the tombstone lifetime was in my environment and decided to find this using PowerShell. There are a number of ways I could do this but dong it through PowerShell would be much easier. For those of you that are new to the attribute, a good explanation of it is: […]
Working on a project where on some servers the DHCP assigned addresses needs to be converted to static. Since there is always more than one…I needed to script it. Here is a quick way to do it via PowerShell.
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#SwitchIPtoStatic.ps1 #Get All the adapters that are on the Server $adapters = gwmi -cl win32_networkadapterconfiguration | ? {($_.ipaddress) -and $_.dhcpEnabled -eq 'True' } foreach ($adapter in $adapters) { # Get original settings $ipAddress = $adapter.IPAddress $subnetMask = $adapter.IPSubnet $dnsServers = $adapter.DNSServerSearchOrder $defaultGateway = $adapter.DefaultIPGateway # Set to static and set dns and gateway: $adapter.EnableStatic($ipAddress,$subnetMask) $adapter.SetDNSServerSearchOrder($dnsServers) $adapter.SetGateways($defaultGateway) } |
Hope this helps!
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dig can we very useful in finding out DNS related issues. To install dig for Window/ Linux/ MacOSX click here. A basic dig command – dig a domain nameIn the most basic of dig commands, you have a domain name like www.microsoft.com, and you want to find information about it, so you issue the following […]
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Covering one of the basic day to day task if you are a Windows Administrator; connecting to the domain controller. I try to minimize logging onto servers as much as possible. Your thought should be around connecting to the server remotely and doing the work as needed instead of natively logging on to it. I […]
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Admins often need to automate things, like creating a dedicated account for joining machines to an Active Directory (AD) domain. This is useful for things like System Center Configuration Manger task sequences and System Center Virtual Machine Manager templates or similar needs. First create a standard Windows user account. Next, right-click on the Computers Organization […]
