Bruce Adamczak

I have spent years working in perfmon, so I thought I would share some tips and tricks on the tool!
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  • Blog Post: Windows 2012 Core Survival Guide – Date and Time settings

    Bruce Adamczak
    Learn about my 2012 Core Survival Guide here. Date and Time settings This blog is going to cover the basic of viewing and changing your time settings. If you are like me I seem to always forget to set the correct time zone and need to correct it after the install. How to view Date and Time settings...
    on 24 Feb 2013

  • Blog Post: Windows 2012 Core Survival Guide – Joining the Domain

    Bruce Adamczak
    Learn about my 2012 Core Survival Guide here. Joining the Domain Everybody at some point will need to join their computers to the domain. This blog will cover the basics of viewing your settings, joining the domain and removing your computer from the domain. How to view Domain Settings We...
    on 15 Feb 2013

  • Blog Post: Windows 2012 Core Survival Guide – Managing Services

    Bruce Adamczak
    Learn about my 2012 Core Survival Guide here. Managing Services This module is going to look at how to manage services. The key to using PowerShell to manage any service is to know the exact spelling of the service name. How to list services PowerShell Command: Get-service | Format-table...
    on 4 Mar 2013

  • Blog Post: Windows 2012 Core Survival Guide – Default Gateway Settings

    Bruce Adamczak
    Learn about my 2012 Core Survival Guide here. Default Gateway Settings Often when troubleshooting IPv4 configuration you may find a misconfigured default gateway. Issue that may arise from a misconfigured gateway are: Ping responses not traversing the router IPv4 communication only working...
    on 24 Jan 2013

  • Blog Post: Windows 2012 Core Survival Guide – MacAddress, LinkSpeed and view single NICs

    Bruce Adamczak
    Learn about my 2012 Core Survival Guide here. MacAddress, LinkSpeed and view single NICs There are a few more commands I want to add to wrap up this section about IPv4 settings. This will give you all the cmdlet you need to get the same data as IPconfig /all. Viewing MAC Address and NIC Link...
    on 5 Feb 2013

  • Blog Post: Windows 2012 Core Survival Guide – DNS Suffix List

    Bruce Adamczak
    DNS Suffix List Learn about my 2012 Core Survival Guide here. I often find in large enterprises that the DNS Suffix list is inconsistent, contains out dated domains, or is incomplete for the environment. The DNS Suffix list is what allows us to use computer names instead of fully qualified domain...
    on 28 Jan 2013

  • Blog Post: Windows 2012 Core Survival Guide – Computer Name Setting

    Bruce Adamczak
    Learn about my 2012 Core Survival Guide here. Computer Name Setting This blog is going to cover the basic of viewing and changing your computer name. Setting the computer name is an option when you are installing the OS, or you can let the installer auto name your server. If for some reason you...
    on 19 Feb 2013

  • Blog Post: Windows 2012 Core Survival Guide – DNS Server Setting

    Bruce Adamczak
    Learn about my 2012 Core Survival Guide here. DNS Server Setting Name resolution is critical to any server configuration. DNS is required to function correctly to locate Active Directory domain controllers, Exchange Servers, and just about every service located on your network. It is common for...
    on 26 Jan 2013

  • Blog Post: Windows 2012 Core Survival Guide - Managing basic IPv4 configuration information

    Bruce Adamczak
    Learn about my 2012 Core Survival Guide here. Basic IPv4 Address configuration Windows Server 2012 Core still has IPCONFIG.EXE that can be used to view the IP configuration. Modern servers typically come with several network interface ports. This causes IPCONFIG.EXE to scroll off the screen when...
    on 18 Jan 2013

  • Blog Post: Windows 2012 Core Survival Guide – Changing the GUI type

    Bruce Adamczak
    Learn about my 2012 Core Survival Guide here. Changing the GUI type Windows Server 2012 has three different GUI installations, Core, Minimal, and Full GUI. I am going to assume in this blog you installed Core and wish to temporarily install one of the other two GUIs. More information about the...
    on 7 Feb 2013

  • Blog Post: Windows 2012 Core Survival Guide – PowerShell Remote Management

    Bruce Adamczak
    Learn about my 2012 Core Survival Guide here. PowerShell Remote Management Windows Server 2012 has PowerShell remoting enabled by default. In order to manage PowerShell Remote Management correctly you will need to logon with an account that is a member of the local administrators account. How...
    on 10 Feb 2013

  • Blog Post: Windows 2012 Core Survival Guide – WINS Client configuration

    Bruce Adamczak
    Learn about my 2012 Core Survival Guide here. WINS Client configuration WINS still exist out there in the real world. For that reason I am including it in this blog series. PowerShell 3.0 does not have any new cmdlet for configuring WINS server settings. So I have to drop back to using WMI to accomplish...
    on 30 Jan 2013

  • Blog Post: Windows 2012 Core Survival Guide – User Functions

    Bruce Adamczak
    Learn about my 2012 Core Survival Guide here. This blog is going to cover some user functions like logging off, shutting down the OS, and launching Task Manager without the GUI. How to log off The Logoff command is not a native PowerShell cmdlet but it works from PowerShell. Command: Logoff...
    on 11 Mar 2013

  • Blog Post: Windows 2012 Core Survival Guide – Remote Desktop

    Bruce Adamczak
    Learn about my 2012 Core Survival Guide here. Remote Desktop This is one of the more complex settings to get correct. For remote desktop to work you need to have two registry keys and a firewall rule set up correctly. If the registry key does not exist you will receive an error when you try to...
    on 13 Feb 2013

  • Blog Post: Windows 2012 Core Survival Guide – Determining if an IPv4 address is DHCP or Static

    Bruce Adamczak
    Learn about my 2012 Core Survival Guide here. Determining if an IPv4 address is DHCP or Static When troubleshooting IPv4 configuration you will need to know if the IPv4 address you are looking at is DHCP or Static. If you notice that the configuration is wrong and it is a DHCP assigned address...
    on 23 Jan 2013