Windows tips, howtos, scripts
Hi,
if use some Image technologies to deploy your Windows installation and your new images are based on older ones sysprep or you have installed Internet Explorer 10, sysprep eventually can fail.
This occurs when sysprep /generalize is applied 9 times against an Windows installation. The counter is stored in the registry.
Continue reading Windows: Fatal error occurred while trying to sysprep the machine
Hello,
Windows Server 2008 and alter version are shipped with a tool called diskshadow. This program can be used to create snapshots of disks and expose them as Folder or as DriveLetter means files are in a consistent state and you can save openfiles.
Some examples. Starting diskshadow. It accept a parameter /l for a logfile. And a Parameter /s for a (diskshadow) script file to execute. diskshadow has the same “look and feel” like diskpart 🙂 and start with a prompt:
C:\Windows\system32>diskshadow
Microsoft DiskShadow version 1.0
Copyright (C) 2013 Microsoft Corporation
On computer: windev, 12.06.2014 20:28:33
DISKSHADOW>
First set diskshadow in defined state with reset
DISKSHADOW> reset
Continue reading Windows: Backup with diskshadow.exe
Hi,
when you want to execute your PowerCli script you have to start the “VMware vSphere PowerCLI” shell before. But, for example Schedule Tasks, it whould be nice that the script load the PowerCli environment itself. Then you simply have to start your script like this
%Systemroot%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -File YourPowerCliScript.ps1
To load the PowerCli script Environent in your powershell script add this lines at the top of your script.
Continue reading VMware: PowerCli Scripts in native Powershell
Hi,
a customer has, accidentally, deleted multiple Active Directory Computer objects which correspond to Network Name Resources of a Windows Cluster 🙁 .
The cluster network name itself was also affected and no backup of the AD Database to restore the objects was available.
All solutions that I’ve found to get the cluster working again are based on the restore of the AD objects.
But there is also another way respective hack 🙂 . This works for me on a Windows 2008 R2 Cluster.
Typical error are:
cluster.exe log g)Continue reading Windows: Cannot bring up Cluster Networkname Resources
Hi,
unlike Linux, Windows has no builtin uptime command to see when the operating system starts.
But nevertheless it’s possible. Use the systeminfo command.
c:\> systeminfo | findstr /i time
System Boot Time: 05.06.2014, 21:05:06
Time Zone: (UTC+01:00) Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna
Note: If you have installed a language different then english replace time as filter which applies to your language.
Michael