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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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