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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
C:\Users\Administrator>ipconfig Windows IP Configuration Ethernet adapter LAN-Connection: Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : localdomain
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Sometimes you need the SID of a user or group. For example if you want to set permissions with icalcs in multilanguage environments. icacls needs as input the group name or the SID. If you want to set permission for the builtin groups you have to specify the group name in the current language of the operating system, i.e. “Users” for en-US and “Benutzer” for de-DE. The better choice is the SID, the SIDs for builtin groups are always the same.
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