My beta module so be gentle, I will definitely be going back and redoing the code. However right now it does work for up to 5 VMs. It basically uses invoke-webrequest instead of having to download curl for Windows. A fun learning experience that I will definitely be going back to perfect and fix. Download …
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Windows 7 – Mount multiple ISOs to Directory with Powershell for Free
So I’m in a situation where I need over 30 ISOs mounted on reboot to folders. Luckily PISMO file mount does this perfectly! http://pismotec.com/ They even provide command line support for their software. That means we can script something small with powershell. My goal was that all my ISOs get mounted to the same directories …
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BGP – Using the next-hop-self command to provide Transit
yes, I see I spelled Colorado wrong. In this topology: Denver is AS1 Chicago to Colorado is AS 2 Virginia and everything to the right is AS3 First we configure our links with /30s, then I give denver a lo0 of 1.1.1.1 and Chicago a l0 of 2.2.2.2, then configure eBGP between the …
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Windows Server – How to Add Disks Performance Tab in Task Manager
Sometimes you might find yourself on a virtual machine or a server with no disk performance monitoring settings under task manager, like the image below… To enable the disk statistic feature in Windows server, or in any windows OS run the following command in command prompt! diskperf -y You should now …
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MDT – Slipstream Windows Updates into Boot Image with Powershell
The below powershell script will mount your .wim file from your deployment share, to C:\mount (make sure that folder exists). Then it will get updates that you extracted from a Fully updated Windows machine. Those updates can be found in C:\windows\softwaredistribution\ (then copy them to your MDT server so you can slipstream them) . Once you have …
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WDS + MDT 2013 + Temporary WSUS for seamless offline updates
On my quest for seamlessly integrating MDT + WDS I also wanted to save bandwidth on Windows updates. Normally we would just setup a WSUS server for the domain and that would be it. However I wanted these machines to get updates from the WSUS server BEFORE they join any domain, since I will be …
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