Category Archives: Powershell

Weekend Learning: Day 2 – Resume Windows Server Configuration after Restart using userdata in AWS using PowerShell

In my previous blog post we saw how to deploy a EC2 Instance, stop, start and finally terminate it using PowerShell. Here is the link to it just in-case you missed it : Weekend Learning: Day 1 – Deploy in … Continue reading

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Weekend Learning: Day 1 – Deploy in AWS using PowerShell

Today’s post I will start by setting up PowerShell and use it to deploy a EC2 Instance, stopping, starting and finally terminating it. Yes all using PowerShell. You need to have an AWS Account and would need the AccessKey & … Continue reading

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Change CD/DVD Drive Letter using Powershell

Every organization has a standard for the way they configure or assign drive letter to CD/DVD Drive. During Windows OS deployment CD/DVD Drive are assigned the next available drive letter once the OS is applied. Easy way to change the … Continue reading

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Run command after sleep if previous execution of the command failed

There are times when you have to execute a command again after sleeping for a few seconds if the previous execution of the command did not give the desired output. This is the quick and dirty way of getting this … Continue reading

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Configure Disk using DiskPart and Powershell in Windows Server 2008 R2

It been a while now, have been a bit “tied up.” In today’s post we will take a look at a script that would help configure drive using DiskPart and Powershell on Windows Server 2008 R2. Before I started writing … Continue reading

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Install, Configure WSUS on Windows Server 2012 R2 and Approve Patches using Powershell – Part 2

Welcome back !! Yesterday we Installed, Configured WSUS and Synchronized our WSUS on Windows Server 2012 R2 using Powershell. Here is the link to it just in-case you missed it : Install, Configure WSUS on Windows Server 2012 R2 and … Continue reading

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Install, Configure WSUS on Windows Server 2012 R2 and Approve Patches using Powershell – Part 1

There are times when you would want to setup a WSUS server in your Lab quickly. As you might have already guessed this is going to be a 2 Part series, In this post will show you how to Install, … Continue reading

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Getting minimum Hardware info from HP iLO (No need for credentials)

Thanks to Mikael Nystrom from DeploymentBunny.com cause have added a few addition to his idea and script to work as per my requirement In HP Servers there is something called iLO, what many people do not know is that you … Continue reading

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Get Install Date & OS Version for a list of Servers provided in a text file

Get Install Date and OS Version for a list of Servers provided in a Text file and publish the result in CSV. Script reads each and every IP/hostname from the inputfile “Serverlist.txt” (Create a Text File “Serverlist.txt” in the same … Continue reading

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