Change the certificate used for remote desktop connection
wmic /namespace:\\root\CIMV2\TerminalServices PATH Win32_TSGeneralSetting Set SSLCertificateSHA1Hash="CertificateSHA1Hash"
You can get the Certificate SHA1 Hash by using openssl...
Office 365 – Azure backup remove recovery services vault
Within Azure I used the Azure Backup server I unregsitered the server I was using however backup items still displayed which prevent me removing the vault
solution was to go to manage > backup infrastructure
then under management servers click on Backup mananagement server and remove from there.
If it is a single server backup
under backup ingrastructure go to protected servers (azure backup agent)
select server and choose delete
Once removed you can then delete the recovery vault...
Hyper-V get VM VHD locations
Run Powershell as admin
get-vm * | select Name,@{L="Disks";E={$_.harddrives.path}} | Export-Csv c:\temp\vmdisklocations.csv
Creates CSV which looks like the below
Name
Disks
WACLS1-VM
S:\VM\WACLS1-vm.vhdx H:\VMs HDD\WACLS1-VM\WACLS1-backupdisk.vhdx H:\VMs HDD\WACLS1-VM\WACLS!-VMM-Lib.vhdx
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Stop a stuck windows service
Recently I have had a issue that a service was stuck on starting
Get the PID of the service
sc queryex servicename
Use the PID to kill the task
taskkill /f /pid [PID]
It will then say
SUCCESS: The process with PID XXXX has been terminated....
VM kept a recovery checkpoint
Not sure why this occurred however I was planning to add a new drive to a vm, however could not add the new drive.
Thinking back to an issue with a VM at work, on my VM exchange I tried to edit an existing drive on the VM and it mentions checkpoints exist.
In poweshell I did get-vmsnapshot Exchange it mentioned it was a recovery checkpoint
The command I used to remove it was get-vmsnapshot exchange | remove-vmsnapshot
Below is a screenshot of the CMD/Powershell window
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Lansweeper Disabling Bulit-in Admin Account
"Website Settings" then uncheck "Allow built-in admin...
Upgrade Server 2016 Evaluation to Full
If you try to change the product key with a retail key it would give the prompt "This edition cannot be upgraded"
You can get the current version of the os by opening command prompt as admin and enter
DISM /online /Get-CurrentEdition
To get the list of editions it can be upgraded to
DISM /online /Get-TargetEditions
To upgrade Standard eval to Standard full use the generic product key within this command
dism /online /set-edition:ServerStandard /productkey:WC2BQ-8NRM3-FDDYY-2BFGV-KHKQY /accepteula
To upgrade Standard eval to Datacenter full or Datacenter eval to Datacenter full
DISM /online /Set-Edition:ServerDatacenter /ProductKey:CB7KF-BWN84-R7R2Y-793K2-8XDDG /AcceptEula
Once done restart your computer.(it can take a while to come back up as it will mention adding features
Once logged in run this command
winver.exe...
Enable Ping In Windows Server 2016
in powershell enter sconfig
option 4
then option 3 to enable ping and click yes on both prompts...
Export list of Mac addresses used by Hyper-V VMs
Run Powershell as admin
Get-vm | Get-VMNetworkAdapter | select-object VMname, Macaddress, Name | Export-Csv -Delimiter ";" -Path C:\vmmacs.csv
VMName = name of the virtual machine
Macaddress = Mac of the VM being used
Name = The type of network adapter being used such as Network Adapter and Legacy Network Adapter
Delimiter is ; which is how they are spaced out so that you can convert from text to collumn.
Open the file in Excel, select the column, then click on Data tab then text to columns, select delimited and click on next and then ensure only semicolon is ticked, and then click finish
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Remove AD user without prompt
When using:
Remove-ADUser -Identity username
It prompt for confirmation to remove the object
To prevent this from appearing and removes the object add -Confirm:$False at the end
The full command is:
Remove-ADUser -Identity username -Confirm:$False...