by skufel | Jan 3, 2014 | Infrastructure, Scripting, SysAdmin, Windows
By default remote management on Windows Server 2012 Core can be blocked by firewall. In order to enable this functionality, issue following command from Command Prompt window: Netsh.exe firewall set service remoteadmin enable ALL Once it’s done you should be...
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 | Jun 26, 2013 | Scripting, SysAdmin, Virtualization
After installing Windows Hyper-V 2012 sometimes there might be some issues with remote management (even if enabled via sconfig). In that case few firewall rules might have to be enabled on Hyper-V machine using PowerShell: enable-netfirewallrule -displaygroup...
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....
