We are in the process of migrating our DPM servers (again!) and just thought it would be handy to share how you can protect one server with multiple DPM servers. The way to do this is with SetDPMServer.exe and the -add switch. SetDPMServer.exe can be found in your DPM Agent… Read more »
Recently we had to connect an untrusted Domain Controller to our DPM instance, it’s pretty straight forward and heres how to do it: Install the DPM Agent on the server you want to protect, agents can be found in C:\Program Files\Microsoft System Center 2012 R2\DPM\DPM\agents\ on the DPM server. Once… Read more »
Hi, Recently I posted an article on how to send key strokes and text to a Hyper-V virtual machine through use of WMI on the host computer. Since that article was written I’ve learned of a way to send any key combinations through to the VM. For example if you… Read more »
Hey, It is possible to send key strokes and text to a Hyper V Virtual Machine using WMI on the host operating system. This can be handy when programming for an off network VM or if the VM loses network connectivity for any reason. Here’s the code to do it,… Read more »
Heyo, There’s been a couple of occasions where we’ve needed to store additional settings in the MDT Database, for example storing AD groups, or the OU that the computer was last in before rebuilding. The process is straight forward, using SQL Server Management Studio, open up the MDT Database, edit… Read more »
Hey, We have 1000’s of MSI’s assigned through group policy and often need to work with the file paths in PowerShell, here’s a function that returns the file path of the MSI from the Software Installation GPO.
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Function Get-MSIPath { [CmdletBinding()] Param ( [Parameter(Mandatory=$True,position=0)] $Policy, [Parameter(Mandatory=$False)] $Domain = (Get-ADDomainController).Name ) $DC = Get-ADDomainController -DomainName $Domain -Discover $DN = (Get-ADDomain -Server $DC).DistinguishedName $GP = Get-GPO -Name $Policy -Domain $Domain -Server $DC $ADobj = Get-ADObject -filter "Name -ne 'Packages'" -Server $DC -SearchBase "CN=Packages,CN=Class Store,CN=Machine,CN={$($GP.ID.Guid)},CN=Policies,CN=System,$DN" -ErrorAction Stop -SearchScope Subtree -Properties msiFileList,displayName Return $ADobj.MSIFileList } |
This function will return the MSI path and MST path. It will… Read more »
Hi Again, I’ve been looking into different ways of invoking commands on remote machines. Here’s one that can be used in VB.NET by using WMI. First add a reference to System.Management and reference it at the start of your project:
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Imports System.Management |
Then add the guts, the code that calls WMI… Read more »
Hi, Today I found myself needing to run a PowerShell command from the command line. I ran powershell /? and had a look at the switches and there is a -Command switch. My first attempt to use the switch looked like:
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C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command {Get-Process | Out-File "$ENV:UserProfile\Desktop\Processes.txt"} |
The above doesn’t work – It gives an… Read more »
Hello! Here’s a quick script that lets you query an SQL Database, store the results in an array and export to CSV. The script uses the .NET SQLClient class for connecting to the database and stores the results in a DataTable object. The connection string uses SQL authentication for the… Read more »
Hi Again, Recently we’ve been fed up with Deployed Printer Connections through Group Policy and have decided to map printers using a PowerShell logon script. We wanted printer additions, removals and defaults to be based on AD groups, and for the script to work with PowerShell 2.0. Our clients are… Read more »
