Category Archives: PowerShell v4

PowerShell package management on PowerShell 3 and 4

Posted on Wednesday 9 March 2016 by richardsiddaway

PowerShell 5.0 introduced PackageManagement (Oneget) – for managing software installation packages and PowerShellGet for managing PowerShell modules. Those features are now available on PowerShell 3 and 4 https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/powershell/2016/03/08/package-management-preview-march-2016-for-powershell-4-3-is-now-available/

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WMF 4.0 Updates available downlevel

Posted on Wednesday 20 January 2016 by richardsiddaway

The WMF 4.0 Updates that were released in November 2014 for Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 are now available for: Windows Server 2012 Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Windows 7 SP1 You need WMF 4.0 installed to install … Continue reading →

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Creating NIC team without knowing the team members

Posted on Sunday 23 November 2014 by richardsiddaway

I was asked how to create a NIC team only using the 1GB adapters without knowing how many 1gb NICs were on the server.   I think this should solve the problem   New-NetLbfoTeam -TeamMembers (Get-NetAdapter | where Speed -ge … Continue reading →

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Creating a DHCP reservation

Posted on Saturday 20 September 2014 by richardsiddaway

For my demo at the PowerShell Summit I wanted to use DHCP for the Linux machine but guarantee that it had a specific IP address.  Time to create a DHCP reservation   The DHCP module in Windows Server 2012 and … Continue reading →

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Authorising a DHCP server and creating a scope

Posted on Sunday 7 September 2014 by richardsiddaway

I recently re-built my test lab and now need to authorise the DHCP server. You can test the DHCP server: £> Get-DhcpServerSetting IsDomainJoined            : TrueIsAuthorized              : FalseDynamicBootp              : TrueRestoreStatus             : FalseConflictDetectionAttempts : 0NpsUnreachableAction      : FullNapEnabled                : FalseActivatePolicies          : True Authorisation … Continue reading →

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CIM or WMI – – accessing remote machines

Posted on Friday 11 July 2014 by richardsiddaway

I much prefer the CIM cmdlets for accessing remote machines. The WMI cmdlets use DCOM which is firewall unfriendly and can often be unavailable of a server – cue the dreaded RPC server is unavailable error messages. By contrast the … Continue reading →

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CIM or WMI – – using methods

Posted on Sunday 6 July 2014 by richardsiddaway

The CIM and WMI cmdlets both provide a way to use the methods on CIM classes namely Invoke-CimMethod and Invoke-WmiMethod. The cmdlets are very similar in operation. $vol = Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Volume -Filter “DriveLetter = ‘D:’” Invoke-WmiMethod -InputObject $vol -Name … Continue reading →

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Workflows 7: checkpointing workflows

Posted on Sunday 6 July 2014 by richardsiddaway

Consider this workflow workflow chkpt1 { Get-Process foreach ($x in 1..20){$x} }   It will dump out the process information then output the numbers 1 to 20.  Not a particularly enlightening workflow but it forms  a nice basis for demonstrating … Continue reading →

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Workflows 6: suspending jobs

Posted on Monday 30 June 2014 by richardsiddaway

One of the great things about work flows is that you can stop and start them. A workflow can be stopped, on a temporary basis, by using the Suspend-Workflow activity. workflow suspend1 {Get-Service Suspend-Workflow Get-Process }suspend1   This will run … Continue reading →

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Workflows: 5a CDXML modules update

Posted on Thursday 26 June 2014 by richardsiddaway

In my last post I questioned why commands from CDXML didn’t fail as thee weren’t any activities defined for them.  Turns out that functions and other commands that don’t explicitly have their own workflow activities are implicitly wrapped in the … Continue reading →

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