Log in to Windows Server 2016 as a member of Enterprise Administrators group; Run Powershell as Administrator; Type netdom query fsmo to get a list of the FSMO roles and their current owners; PS C:\Windows\system32> netdom query fsmo Schema master cs-core-adc-01.vstrong.info Domain naming master cs-core-adc-01.vstrong.info PDC cs-core-adc-01.vstrong.info RID pool manager cs-core-adc-01.vstrong.info Infrastructure master cs-core-adc-01.vstrong.info […]
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I have been tasked to migrate several VMs with RDM disks between storage arrays / datastores. The data LUNs have been migrated/copied and all was left is the migration of the VM configuration files and RDM pointers. To make matter even worse, VMs in question were Oracle RAC clustered VMs therefore is was imperative to […] In my previous “PowerShell: Create new Active Directory groups, change group membership” blog post I published a PowerShell script that automates create Active Directory group creation. Today I needed to create multiple test user accounts and, and there were 12 account created already, the TestUser account number should start from 13. All New-ADUser cmdlet parameters […] The following script helps you to: Import Active Directory groups and their descriptions from a CSV file; Create Active Directory Groups and add Description If the Group is flagged (Yes or No), it will be added to another group (e.g. User groups –> Application provisioning group) Excel view: AD Group Name AD Group Description Add […] Quick Powershell script to add DHCP reservation for a VM on multiple DHCP servers: Please refer to DHCP Server Cmdlets in Windows PowerShell for more details. $DHCPservers = ‘DHCP001’, ‘DHCP002’ $Scope = ‘10.80.24.0’ $IPaddress = ‘10.80.24.12’ $Server = ‘SQL001’ $Domain = ‘internal.vStrong.info’ $VM = Get-VM $Server # $VM.NetworkAdapters.MacAddress returns MAC address in semicolon separated 00:50:56:00:00:00 […] One of my customers was getting a strange error when trying to remove permissions in vCenter: The “Remove Permission” operation failed for the entity with following error message. The object or item referred to could not be found. But the user was there! I asked him to add a new user and then remove […] One of my clients was concerned about the number of virtual machines that were built with Thin provisioned disks. Before they go with the project to inflate all Thin provisioned disks (or migrate to Thick Provisioned Lazy Zeroed) they needed to know how much additional storage they would need. PowerCLI to the rescue! Yes, you […] Just a quick script to export virtual machine inventory: $report = @() foreach ($DC in Get-Datacenter -Name MyDC){ # Specify Datacenter name if needed foreach ($Cluster in Get-Cluster -Location $DC ){ # Specify Cluster name if needed foreach ($VM in Get-VM -Location $Cluster ){ $row = "" | select DC, Cluster, ResourcePool, VMPath, VMhost, PowerState, […] |
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