Category Archives: Windows Server 2016

Set active hours

Posted on Thursday 15 March 2018 by richardsiddaway

Last time time you saw how to get the current active hours. This is how you set the active hours. $sb = {   Set-ItemProperty -Path HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsUpdate\UX\Settings -Name ActiveHoursStart -Value 10 -PassThru   Set-ItemProperty -Path HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsUpdate\UX\Settings -Name ActiveHoursEnd -Value 22 -PassThru } … Continue reading →

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Get Active Hours

Posted on Wednesday 14 March 2018 by richardsiddaway

Windows 10 and Server 2016 (and later) have the concept of active hours. These are the hours you define as working hours in effect. This is how you get active hours for a system $sb = {   param([string]$computerName)      $ahs … Continue reading →

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Cannot verify the file SHA256 when installing package

Posted on Saturday 18 November 2017 by richardsiddaway

I’m doing some work requiring containers and decided to use Server 1709 as it has some significant changes when compared to Server 2016. The documentation – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowscontainers/about/ – just gives options for Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server Insider Preview. … Continue reading →

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Windows update change in Server 1709

Posted on Friday 17 November 2017 by richardsiddaway

When Windows Server 2016 was introduced a very nice CIM class was provided to work with Windows Updates. If you wanted to scan for available updates you could do something like this: $ci = New-CimInstance -Namespace root/Microsoft/Windows/WindowsUpdate -ClassName MSFT_WUOperationsSession $result … Continue reading →

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Administrative absurdity

Posted on Wednesday 1 November 2017 by richardsiddaway

Project Honolulu is Microsoft’s brand new, still under development, browser based admin tool. It can’t use Internet Explorer – it only supports Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome. Windows Server 2016 (and all earlier versions of Windows Server) only has Internet … Continue reading →

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Project Honolulu

Posted on Tuesday 31 October 2017 by richardsiddaway

The recent announced project Honolulu – https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/windowsserver/2017/09/22/project-honolulu-technical-preview-is-now-available-for-download/ – is Microsoft’s new browser based Server management tool. You can install it on Windows 10, Windows Server 1709 and Windows Server 2016, 2012 R2 and 2012 Honolulu is the proposed replacement for … Continue reading →

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Windows 2016 1709 release

Posted on Friday 27 October 2017 by richardsiddaway

The Windows 2016 1709 release is the first of the semi-annual updates for Windows Server – interestingly its referred to as Windows Server 1709 in the documentation. Its now available for download through your Software Assurance channels and Windows evaluation … Continue reading →

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Heterogeneous environments

Posted on Thursday 14 September 2017 by richardsiddaway

When we talk about heterogeneous environments the assumption is that we mean a mixture of Windows and Linux machines. Windows and Linux can be viewed as providing the end points of a spectrum of management issues. In reality there is … Continue reading →

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Nano server changes

Posted on Saturday 24 June 2017 by richardsiddaway

Nano server is the small, really small, footprint install version of Windows Server that was introduced with Server 2016. it has a limited number of roles available to to install – much like the original version of  Server core. Recent … Continue reading →

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PowerShell Direct failure

Posted on Sunday 2 April 2017 by richardsiddaway

PowerShell Direct is introduced with Server 2016/Windows 10. it enables you to create a remoting session from the Hyper-V host to a VM using the VM name or ID. I recent discovered a PowerShell Direct failure that I couldn’t explain … Continue reading →

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