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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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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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Before getting into this, I'd like to discuss the pipeline a bit. In the pipeline you have to ways of passing objects, by value (typename) or by property name (which is powershell's second try) For example, let's see what kind of objects get-process creates by piping get-member to it (I use the alias GM) …
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My goal is to to force all users in a certain OU to change their passwords at next login. So let's get started. First I need to get a list of my users accounts. We know we can use get-aduser -filter * to get all the users and their properties, however I only want …
Now I'm just at the beginning of my powershell journey however I've discovered a couple of tricks that really help me solidify my scripts: The first tip is to use "get-command *yourmodule*" The first step in any one of my powershell scripts is first figuring out, what is possible with powershell CMDLETS. This is why I …
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It seems like the most common way to create users in powershell via the ad module is by using the "import-csv" command and then running a foreach-object on new-aduser. I got the original script from a couple of people on reddit and some blogs on Google. There's not much uniqueness to it besides taking the …