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Downloaded a vhd from azure added it to gen1 vm however only showed blinking cursor Created gen 2 vm however could not add the vhd issue reading it Converted vhd to vhdx and was able to boot On VM setting go to disk Edit Choose action Convert select VHDX set type fixed or dynamic set […]

Single user Set-ADAccountPassword –Identity useralias–Reset –NewPassword (ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText “Newp@ssw0rd” -Force)   Multiple Users csv with heading SamaccountName and the new password $UserFile = “C:\Temp\MultiUser.CSV” Foreach ($User in $UserFile) { $SamAccountName = $User .SamAccountName $ThisPassword = $User .Password Set-ADAccountPassword –Identity $SamAccountName –Reset –NewPassword (ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText “$Password” -Force) }

Go to cloudflare and login click profile icon select my profile go to api tokens tab create new custom token Give token a name give the following permissions Zone Zone Edit Zone DNS Edit Zone Resources Include all zones IP Address filtering none (unless you wanted to restrict access, I have not as my IP is […]

used for is you have already moved the files, for instance I updated from using the computer name \\storage\ to the FQDN   get Excel file get-VMHardDiskDrive -VMName * | select VMName,ControllerType,ControllerNumber,ControllerLocation,Path | Export-Csv -Delimiter “;” -Path “c:\temp\vmvhdloc.csv” In excel file update path to what you want it to be (note this does not move […]

Either when you reinstall OS or add a new drive it seems to of disabled auto mount Confirm you have read/write access on the server you on Server Manager->File and Storage Services->Volumes->Storage Pools Right-click storage pool and choose “Set Read-Write access” and OK on the prompt Set drive to automatically mount in powershell Get-VirtualDisk | […]

While I was building a new server in which I was using storage pools I rebooted the system to check that the drives auto mounted, while doing this I found that I kept getting the shutdown event tracker when I logged in and it did not go away (this even occurred when using restart option) […]

Powershell Get-ClusterGroup -Cluster 19-hv | ? {$_.GroupType –eq ‘VirtualMachine’ } | Get-VM | Get-VMDvdDrive   19-hv is the cluster name I have created VMName ControllerType ControllerNumber ControllerLocation DvdMediaType Path —— ————– —————- —————— ———— —- 19-RDSH SCSI 0 1 None 2016DC-1 SCSI 0 1 None 2019 SCSI 0 1 None Android IDE 1 0 ISO […]

wmic /namespace:\\root\CIMV2\TerminalServices PATH Win32_TSGeneralSetting Set SSLCertificateSHA1Hash=”CertificateSHA1Hash” You can get the Certificate SHA1 Hash by using openssl

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 […]

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