by Edward van Biljon | Dec 24, 2020 | PowerShell, Window Server 2012 R2 PowerShell, Windows Server 2016 PowerShell, Windows Server 2019 PowerShell
You may have noticed that when you want to run that PowerShell script you downloaded it gives you an error. This is because windows is designed to protect the operating system. If you are running Windows Server, the default is set to remote signed. On Windows client...
by Edward van Biljon | Mar 1, 2020 | Windows Server 2016 PowerShell, Window Server 2012 R2 PowerShell, Windows Server 2019 PowerShell
Recently we had a request to update a whole stack of servers registry keys. With PowerShell this is easy to do. In the first step you need to set the location of where you want to work. In this case it was HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Location – Location being where you want...
by Edward van Biljon | Feb 20, 2020 | Windows Server 2016 PowerShell, Window Server 2012 R2 PowerShell, Windows Server 2008 R2 PowerShell, Windows Server 2012 PowerShell, Windows Server 2019 PowerShell
In any operating system, you may want to uninstall or remove a device like a network card for example that may be causing issues. Launching Device Manager does not show the device and as an example you cannot rename you network card because it says the device already...
by Edward van Biljon | Jan 22, 2020 | Windows Server 2016 PowerShell, Window Server 2012 R2 PowerShell, Windows Server 2012 PowerShell
With PowerShell you can pretty much do anything. In this article we disabled Netbios using a registry key, however you can do the same using WMI and PowerShell as well as removing the tick box for Lmhosts on a Network Card. To do this, you can run the following set of...
by edward | Aug 29, 2019 | Windows Server 2016 PowerShell, Window Server 2012 R2 PowerShell, Windows Server 2012 PowerShell
On one of my client’s server running Windows Server 2012 R2, when you launched PowerShell it would immediately crash with the error: and this would create windows events non-stop on the server as follows: At first you think you have the famous PowerShell Virus...
by edward | Aug 27, 2019 | Windows Server 2016 PowerShell, Window Server 2012 R2 PowerShell, Windows Server 2012 PowerShell
Recently we had a customer that wanted to turn off Netbios on all servers for all interfaces. StackOverflow had a nice script that did this with ease, here is the script: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34387413/command-line-disable-netbios $i =...
