I recently updated my SCVMM server to Update Release 6. However once updated, I was getting error 21201 “Another machine with the same SMBIOS GUID is found. Recommended Action An SMBIOS GUID should uniquely identify the machine. Provide the correct value or contact the machine manufacturer to help update the hardware with correct information” as…
In a recent post I described how I used Powershell to configure a dual-homed Radius server where I wanted to firewall everything on the DMZ interface but not affect the production interface. I did this using a Windows feature known as NLA – Network Location Awareness – which has been around in one form or…
Recently I built an NPS server for Radius authentication, and had to dual home it with one NIC in the DMZ and one on the production network. I wanted to firewall everything on the DMZ interface but not affect the production interface. That way I could then allow the traffic I wanted to enable on…
Here’s a script I’ve written that can be added as a scheduled task on the SCVMM server to send a daily report to selected people containing all the currently outstanding checkpoints on the Hyper-V hosts. This is done without having to store any plain text passwords (they are stored but in an encrypted format). It…
First connect to the remote server with powershell
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[cc lang="powershell"]Enter-PSSession -ComputerName contoso\hv01[/cc] |
Next run the command to add the group:
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[cc lang="powershell"]Add-LocalGroupMember -Group "Administrators" -Member "CONTOSO\Hyper-V Admins"[/cc] |
If you’re paranoid (like me) and want to check this worked you can use:
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[cc lang="powershell"]Get-LocalGroupMember "Administrators"[/cc] |
Here’s a little script I created that was useful to check the amount of physical RAM installed on a Hyper-V server running core. It reports the amount of physical RAM in the host as well as the amount of RAM which is actually visible and addressable to the server. It also reports the RAM which…