by skufel | Oct 24, 2013 | Automation, Infrastructure, Scripting, SysAdmin, Windows
Handful list of parameters possible to use in CMD scripts: %~I - expands %I removing any surrounding quotes ("") %~fI - expands %I to a fully qualified path name %~dI - expands %I to a drive letter only %~pI - expands %I to a...
by skufel | Sep 10, 2013 | Infrastructure, Network, Scripting, SysAdmin
If you need to identify your public IP and have no possibility to run web browser of any kind you can use telnet. In order to identify public IPv4: telnet v4address.com In order to identify public IPv6: telnet v6address.com Once connection is established autoresponder...
by skufel | Aug 10, 2013 | Infrastructure, SysAdmin, System Center, Windows
Quick reference with screenshots and requirements for System Center 2012 SP1 Service Manager installation. Few components from Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Feature Pack will be required. Group Service Manager Admins has been created in lab.corp (LAB) domain prior to...
by skufel | Aug 7, 2013 | Directory Services, Infrastructure, Scripting, Windows
In order to create new Forest and promote Windows Server 2012 Core to be Domain Controller for that Forest, first Active Directory Services Role has to be added: Install-WindowsFeature AD-Domain-Services –IncludeManagementTools Once Active Directory DOmain Services...
by skufel | May 20, 2013 | Infrastructure, SysAdmin, System Center
Quick steps which should be done as pre-migration steps when you want to migrate System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2 to System Center 2012 SP1 Configuration Manager. Diagram below shows schematics of the lab environment prepared for migration testing....
by skufel | Apr 4, 2013 | Databases, Infrastructure, Scripting, SysAdmin, Windows
Recently I had issue which occured without any particular reason on SQL Server 2012. All of the sudden I start getting error message: Cannot connect to WMI provider. You do not have permission or the server is unreachable. Note that you can only manage SQL Server 2005...
