Just a quick snippet today. I wrote this because I was didn’t want to have to wait for 30 days before unusused superceded updates in my WSUS server were automatically declined - especially those daily “Definition Update for Windows Defender”.
If you’re happy waiting for these unused superceded updates to be declined after 30 days then you can just use the following cmdlet:
[sourcecode language=“powershell”] Invoke-WsusServerCleanup -DeclineSupersededUpdates [/sourcecode]
However, if you don’t want to wait you can fire off this little PowerShell script.
All the recent talk about the new Windows Server Nano (Windows Server Core on diet pills) that is available for installation on the Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 2 ISO got me quite interested. So, I thought I’d give it a whirl to see what all the fuss was about. Well, first up, it really is as small (568Mb with my chosen packages) and fast as Microsoft says. Second, however, it is most definitely a Tech Preview and is missing lots of stuff and has some obvious issues.
Introduction Desired State Configuration (DSC) is definitely one of the coolest features of WMF 4.0. This article however is not about what DSC is or how to implement it - there are already many great introductions to DSC out there. If you’re new to DSC I’d suggest you take a look at the great free e-book from PowerShell.org: The DSC Book.
I’ve been working with DSC for several months now in my lab environments and I really love it.
Well for me, it has to be the proper standard support for text selection, copy (CTRL+C), cut (CTRL+X) and paste (CTRL+V) in the Command and PowerShell windows. Finally, Microsoft has gotten rid of the completely unintuitive and non-standard method employed for the last 20 or so years. What took them so long?
Although I still don’t like the fact that copying text in a console window de-selects it. This is not standard behaviour anywhere else.
I’ve spent the last day or so working on a module to help with managing DSC Pull Servers and other functions to help making DSC a little bit easier to get up and running. This module isn’t quite finished yet, but I thought I’d share a quick code snippet that I’ve been using a lot to get the DSC configuration from a remote machine when credentials and special port details are required.
