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A Tale of Licensing – Part 3: A Script to automatically update DRS Groups

September 25, 2014akers8806 2 Comments

See Part 1 Here See Part 2 Here   What a pain this was. As of September 2014, there are no good cmdlets in PowerShell or PowerCLI to manage DRS groups and rules. I wanted a script that I could… Continue Reading →

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SCCM 2012 R2 – troubleshooting a software update package or deployment package

September 15, 2014akers8806 2 Comments

First things first, I must give credit where credit is due. If it wasn’t for this blog post by Alex Verboon, I would have never figured this problem out.   Just like Alex, I had an issue with a deployment… Continue Reading →

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Change/set local admin password on all servers

July 30, 2014akers8806 Leave a Comment

The local admin password on our servers had not been changed in 10 years – I decided it was time to change it. My first instinct was to use Group Policy as it is easy and I have done it… Continue Reading →

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Update VM templates via WSUS

July 22, 2014akers8806 2 Comments

The quick and easy way to update a template is to convert it to a VM, power it on, set the network settings, then open windows update and update via the internet. This is how I have always done it… Continue Reading →

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