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Enable Powershell logging - missing GPO

I want to enable script block logging for powershell. I have installed this new feature with a windows server 2016 VM. Now i want do test this with Windows server 2012 and Windows server 2008. First I installed PowerShell 5.0. Now I want to aktivate…
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Do you Suspend-ClusterNode before or after Move-ClusterGroup?

Which do you do first to avoid service interruption? Or does it not matter? Is it: Suspend-ClusterNode -Drain Get-ClusterNode $env:COMPUTERNAME | Get-ClusterGroup | Move-ClusterGroup or: Get-ClusterNode $env:COMPUTERNAME | Get-ClusterGroup |…
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Powershell - Add-LocalGroupMember - make silent when member exists

I can use Add-LocalGroupMember to add a user to the local group: Add-LocalGroupMember -Group "Administrators" -Member "foobar" but it isn't idempotent. If the user already exists then you get this error Add-LocalGroupMember : foobar is already a…
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Regulate Implicit Remoting Sessions

Summary: After running netstat, I noticed that my local device has several established connections to the remote server using port 5985 as seen below: PS > netstat Active Connections Proto Local Address Foreign Address State …
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How to obtain IP Address of Windows 2008 R2 VM on Hyper-V with PowerShell?

I have created an automated build script to build new VMs on Hyper-V 2016. I sometimes need a 2008 R2 VM and the way I obtain the IP Address to connect to my 2012 R2/2016 VMs is to use some powershell like: get-vm -Name…
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Powershell, how to compare user input

I'm making a "shortcut" PS1 script to update a domain user's password. I'd like to prompt the user for the new password twice without showing the password on screen. When I use $Text1=Read-Host ; $Text2=Read-Host ; $Text1 -eq $Text2 with the same…
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Proper method for detecting Apache Tomcat installation via PowerShell?

What's the proper method for detecting whether an arbitrary version of Apache Tomcat is installed on a given Windows server, which we can assume to be Windows Server 2012 R2 or greater, using PowerShell 5 or greater?
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Get-ADUser WhenChanged and WhenCreated are empty for some users

I've built a PowerShell 5.1 script to export all the users in the DB and save all the data in to a CSV file. The script allows you to set a date back in time so you can decide since when you'd like your users to be exported. After some testing a…
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High CPU usage observed from WMI provider"deploymentprovider" which is a part of ServerManager.DeploymentProvider.dll

I'm using powerShell Desired State Configuration to test/set Windows Features on server machine. What I have is 78 WindowsFeature resources to be checked and installed if necessary. What I observed is high CPU usage while LCM ( Local Configuration…
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Windows 2016 powershell and NuGet Errors

I am trying to install the Windows 2016 RDWeb HTML5 client on a Windows 2016 RDGW server using these instructions from Microsoft CLICK HERE I was able to successfully do this on one of our regional server farms last week. This week, performing the…
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How do I compare two folders in powershell 5.1?

I'm having a really difficult time figuring out what PS is trying to tell me. I've created a script that is intended to compare the files in two directories. I want to output any differences in Name, Number of files, or length in either directory.…
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Are Powershell's New-NetFirewallRule and Set-NetFirewallRule inconsistent?

I noticed that the PowerShell New-NetFirewallRule cmdlet does not behave like I expected. When calling the commandlet repeatedly, it will create multiple entries with the same name. For example, when running this command twice New-NetFirewallRule…
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Permanently load environment variable on aws ssm login in windows PowerShell

I am using ssm login for logging into my windows server 2016 data center edition. When I make a RDP connection and run PowerShell from RDP, All the system environment variables are loded correctly however the same fails to load when using a aws ssm…
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MD5 hash comparison over SMB SLOW

I'm scripting a full backup solution in powershell on Windows server 2016 for Hyper-V VM's and have run into the issue that calculating the MD5 hash over the network on a mounted network drive across a WAN is about half the speed of just doing the…
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DSC not pulling config

my DSC node is not pulling the DSC config from my SMB DSC server. Get-DSCConfigurationStatus says the pull was successfull but Get-DSCConfiguration remains the same(old config). Im testing it with a HelloWorld config where a file is created on the C…
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