Windows tips, howtos, scripts
Hi,
for a lot of powershell scripts Administrator permissions are necessary. In powershell, you can check if you are elevated by the following script code.
Insert the snippet at the top of your script. It checks the credentials and exits the script if the administrator permissions are missing.
Continue reading Powershell: Check for Administrator rights
Hi,
for some migration scenarios it is nesseccary to set Volume Serial Number of a partition or volume. For example when you move a license manager to a new hardware and the licenses are bound to the disk serial.
Continue reading Windows: Change the Volume Serial Number of a partition or volume
Hi,
booting operating systems, such as linux live systems or Windows PE based installations (Windows Vista,7,8), from a USB Drive or Stick is a nice featured.
Unfortunately each writes it own boot code to the MBR (Master boot record). The boot code of Windows PE 2 and later loads \BOOTMGR, linux is usually loaded with \syslinux.
Well known linux installers like TUXBOOT, the Universal-USB-Installer or UNetBootin do updating the MBR by installing the syslinux bootloader.
To get the Windows PE MBR back without formating the stick, do the following steps.
Continue reading Windows: Writing a new MBR an a USB Drive to boot Windows PE
Most of the Serversystems have a Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) integrated for maintenace and management tasks.
Typical functions are, indepentend from the running operating system:
Usually, the BMC has its own LAN Interface and therefore an own IP Address.
Continue reading Windows: Read the IP Address of a BMC Board
Last week a customer had the problem that a virtual machine uses a NAT Network connection but the NIC Adapter in the virtual machine is in disconnected state.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 | C:\Users\Administrator>ipconfigWindows IP ConfigurationEthernet adapter LAN-Connection: Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : localdomain |
Continue reading VMware: Virtual maschine LAN Interface disconnected