Category Archives: Windows Server 2008 R2

Windows Server 2008 EoL

Posted on Wednesday 11 July 2018 by richardsiddaway

Windows Server 2008 EoL on 14 January 2020 Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 will be end of life and no longer supported from 14 January 2020 – https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/windowsserver/2018/07/10/its-sunset-time-for-windows-server-2008-and-2008-r2/ There’s plenty of time to think about migrating off of the … Continue reading →

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Don’t reinvent the wheel

Posted on Monday 31 October 2016 by richardsiddaway

Way back when I used to take Microsoft certification exams there were often questions of the form “Perform task X with the minimum of administrative effort” Most, if nor all, of the possible answers would be correct but the correct … Continue reading →

Posted in Powershell, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016 | 1 Comment

PowerShell remoting and upgrading to Windows 2012

Posted on Sunday 23 September 2012 by richardsiddaway

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 … Continue reading →

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

Posted on Saturday 2 June 2012 by richardsiddaway

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 The question asked if the new Site, Subnet and Site link cmdlets would work in a … Continue reading →

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BITS posts

Posted on Sunday 4 March 2012 by richardsiddaway

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.techtarget.com/powershell/download-multiple-files-by-bits/ 3 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/powershell/upload-through-bits/ More to follow

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Remoting between PowerShell v3 CTP 2 and PowerShell v2

Posted on Tuesday 24 January 2012 by richardsiddaway

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 … Continue reading →

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AD account Expiry date

Posted on Monday 25 July 2011 by richardsiddaway

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 … Continue reading →

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Using AccountManagement classes to set local accounts expiry

Posted on Friday 15 July 2011 by richardsiddaway

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(ValueFromPipeline=$true, ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName=$true)] [string]$id ) BEGIN {Add-Type -AssemblyName System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement} PROCESS { switch ($computer){ “.” {$computer = $env:computername} “localhost” {$computer = $env:computername} } … Continue reading →

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Setting local account expiry dates

Posted on Friday 15 July 2011 by richardsiddaway

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”, $expirydate) $user.SetInfo() $user.RefreshCache() $user | Format-List * This uses … Continue reading →

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Windows SysInternals Administrators Reference

Posted on Wednesday 13 July 2011 by richardsiddaway

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  – should be one of a Windows administrator’s best friends. You may not need them every day but when you do … Continue reading →

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