PowerShell commands

Question 1

install Network Load Balancing

Answer 1

Install-WindowsFeature -IncludeAllSubFeature -IncludeManagementTools -Name “NLB”

Question 2

join a domain

Answer 2

Add-Computer –DomainName sandbox.com -Credential sandbox\administrator -restart –force

Question 3

disable a service

Answer 3

Set-Service -Name “MapsBroker” -StartupType Disabled

vs. Automatic or Manual

Question 4

add/remove a vNIC from host

Answer 4

on host: Add-VMNetworkAdapter -VMName Sandbox-NLB02 -Name “Ethernet 2” -SwitchName Sandbox-vSwitch
(note this names it only w/in Hyper-V manager, not w/in the VM… but each new NIC will be added w/in the VM as Ethernet #)

Remove-VMNetworkAdapter -VMName Sandbox-NLB02 -Name “Ethernet 2”

Question 5

set static IP addy

Answer 5

New-NetIPAddress -InterfaceAlias “Ethernet 2” -IPAddress 192.168.0.112 -PrefixLength 24 -DefaultGateway 192.168.0.1

Question 6

install Failover Clustering

Answer 6

Install-WindowsFeature Failover-Clustering

Question 7

install graphic failover clustering mgmt tools

Answer 7

Install-WindowsFeature RSAT-Clustering-MGMT

Question 8

install PS failover clustering module

Answer 8

Install-WindowsFeature RSAT-Clustering-PowerShell

Question 9

install network load balancing and tools

Answer 9

Install-WindowsFeature NLB

Install-WindowsFeature RSAT-NLB

Question 10

stop and drain network load balancing on a single host, then start it again

Answer 10

Stop-NlbClusterNode -Drain -Hostname “NLBNODE2”

Start-NlbClustetNode -Hostname “NLBNODE2

Question 11

discover the interface index of the adapters

Answer 11

Get-NetAdapter

Question 12

Set IP addy by index

Answer 12

New-NetIpAddress -InterfaceIndex 6 -IPaddress 192.168.0.200 -PrefixLength 24
-DefaultGateway 192.168.0.1

Question 13

Configure DNS addys

Answer 13

Set-DNCclientServerAddress -InterfaceIndex 6 -ServerAddresses
(“192.168.0.1”,”192.168.0.2”)

Question 14

Rename computer whilst joining the domain

Answer 14

Add-Computer -DomainName foo.com -NewName ServerFoo -Credential foo\administrator

same at CMD:
1) netdom renamecomputer %computername% /newname: newcomputername
2) shutdown /r
3) netdom join %computername% /domain: domainname /userd: username /passwordd:*
(* = prompt for pw)

Question 15

Update firewall to allow remote MMC management

Answer 15

Set-NetFirewallRule –name complusnetworkaccess-dcom-in –Enabled true

Set-NetFirewallRule –name remoteeventlogsvc-in-tcp –Enabled true

Set-NetFirewallRule –name remoteeventlogsvc-np-in-tcp –Enabled true

Set-NetFirewallRule –name remoteeventlogsvc-rpcss-in-tcp –Enabled true

Question 16

install Windows Server Migration Tools

Answer 16

Install-WindowsFeature migration

cd C:\windows\system32\ServerMigrationTools\

SmigDeploy.exe /package /architecture amd64 /os [WS08R2|WS12R2] /path C:\Files\

… then copy results of above to source server, and run SmigDeploy.exe from elevated CMD

Question 17

import nano server modules from NanoServer folder in the installation folder/media

Answer 17

Import-Module .\nanoserverimagegenerator -verbose

Question 18

create a new standard nano server image with IP settings

Answer 18

New-NanoServerImage -DeploymentType guest -Edition standard -Mediapath root -Targetpath C:\Files\standardNan01.vhdx -Computername STDNAN01 -Domain foo -InterfaceNameOrIndex ethernet -Ipv4Address 192.168.1.92 -Ipv4SubnetMask 255.255.255.0 -Ipv4Dns 192.168.1.1

Question 19

create a new standard nano server image from non-domain machine

Answer 19

on a domain machine:
>djoin /provision /domain foo /machine STDNAN02 /savefile nan02blob.txt

on non-domain machine, creating the nano:
>New-NanoServerImage -DeploymentType guest -Edition standard -Targetpath C:\Files\nan02.vhdx -Computername STDNAN02 -DomainBlobPath C:\Files\nan02blob.txt

Question 20

create a new VM

Answer 20

New-VM -Name “STDNAN02” -Generation 2 -MemoryStartupBytes 1GB -VhdPath “D:\vhds\nan02.vhdx”

Question 21

Edit nano vhd file to install VM roles/features:

1. Hyper-V
2. Failover Clustering
3. basic Server Core drivers
4. File Server
5. Windows Defender
6. Windows Containers
7. Desired State Configuration
8. DNS Server
9. IIS
10. System Center Virtual Machine Manager agent
11. Hyper-V, managed by SCVMM
12. Network Performance Diagnostics Service
13. Data Center Bridging
14. Secure Startup
15. Shielded Virtual Machine (datacenter edition only)

Answer 21

Edit-NanoServerImage -basepath C:\nanoserver\base -TargetPath C:\Files\nan02.vhdx …

1. -Compute
2. -Clustering
3. -OEMDrivers
4. -Storage
5. -Defender
6. -Containers
7. -Packages Microsoft-NanoServer-DSC-Package
8. -Packages Microsoft-NanoServer-DNS-Package
9. -Packages Microsoft-NanoServer-IIS-Package
10. -Packages Microsoft-NanoServer-SCVMM-Package
11. -Packages Microsoft-NanoServer-SCVMM-Compute-Package (do not use w/ -Compute)
12. -Packages Microsoft-NanoServer-NPDS-Package
13. -Packages Microsoft-NanoServer-DCB-Package
14. -Packages Microsoft-NanoServer-SecureStartup-Package
15. -Packages Microsoft-NanoServer-ShieldedVM-Package

Question 22

Create and Enter a new nano’s PowerShell session

Answer 22

New-PSSession -ComputerName nan02 -credential foo\administrator

Enter-PSSession -id [##]

for local admin: -credential -\administrator

if not on a domain:
>Set-Item wsman:\localhost\client\trustedhosts “192.168.1.92”
> New-PSSession -ComputerName 192.168.1.92 -credential -\administrator
>Enter-PSSession -id ##

Question 23

DISM: mount and add drivers to an offline windows image file

add packages, remove package

commit changes

Answer 23

> dism /get-imageinfo /imagefile:C:\images\install.wim
(shows index #s and names of available images)

> dism /mount-image /imagefile:C:\images\install.wim /index:2 /mountdir:C:\mount

> dism /image:C:\mount /add-driver /driver:C:\drivers /recurse
(adds all .inf files under that folder)

> dism /image:C:\mount /add-package /packagepath:C:\updates\thisisapackage.msu [/ignorecheck] /packagepath:C:\updates\another.msu

> dism /image:C:\mount /remove-package /packagepath:C:\updates\another.msu

> dism /unmount-image /mountdir:C:\mount /commit