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The Text Based Console Part 1- An Overview
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Help System LAB Questions
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Command Syntax Lab Questions
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Objects, Properties and Methods Part 3
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Questions 1-9 for Objects, Properties and Methods
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Answers to Questions 1-7 O-P-M
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PowerShell Providers • 30min
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Using PS Drive
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PowerShell Variables
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On Premises Lab Setup • 36min
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Downloading and Installing VirtualBox
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Downloading Windows Server 2019
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Creating Your Virtual Network
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Creating Your Virtual Machines
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Installing VirtualBox Guest Additions
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Installing Windows Server
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Installing the Active Directory Domain Services Role
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Basic Domain Administration with Windows PowerShell • 2hr 27min
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Configuring PowerShell Execution Policy with Group Policy
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Installing Windows Server Roles and Features with Powershell
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Running Powershell Scripts as Scheduled Tasks
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Creating Organizational Units with Powershell
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Creating and Managing Active Directory User Accounts with PowerShell
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Move all AD Users in a Group to a Specific Organizational Unit
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Generate a list of AD Users and their OU
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PowerShell Splatting
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Bulk Install Windows MSU Files Automatically with PowerShell
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Lab: Domain Administration with Windows PowerShell
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Send Emails with PowerShell • 22min
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Send Emails from Gmail with PowerShell
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Create Password Expiration Notification Script
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PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) Basics • 1hr 48min
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DSC Overview
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Enabling PSRemoting with Group Policy
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The DSC Resource Kit
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Configuring The Local Config Manager for DSC Push
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Uninstalling Windows Features with DSC
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Lab: Desired State Configuration (DSC)
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First, on SAMS01 (or your member server) make sure the SMB 1.0/CIFS File Sharing Support feature is installed:

This is the feature that we will be removing from SAMS01. Once you’ve done that, head over to SADC01 to beging writing the node configuration.
To get started with this lecture, we are going to create a new PowerShell script called “RemoveSMBv1.ps1” in the “C:\DSC” folder:
The script will start out with the same few lines as the LCMConfig script by declaring the TargetServer variable and creating a CIM session with the target server.
Also add a variable for the config paths:
$ConfigPath = “C:\DSC\Config”

Next, we need to create a configuration for removing a Windows Feature (SMBv1) from our target node:
# Uninstall SMBv1
Configuration RemoveSMBv1 {
Import-DscResource -ModuleName PSDesiredStateConfiguration
Node $TargetServer {
WindowsFeature "SMB1" {
Name = "FS-SMB1"
Ensure = "Absent"
}
}
}
We are running the Import-DscResource so the configuration command will run without error.
Now let’s create the MOF file with this configuration:
# Create MOF file for target server
$RemoveSMBv1 = RemoveSMBv1 -Outputpath "C:\DSC\Configs"

A new file is created in the “C:\DSC\Configs” folder. The MDWS01.meta.mof is the LCM (local configuration manager) config and the MDWS01.mof is the node configuration.
Once the MOF file is generated, we can test our node against the LCM configuration file we just generated:

This should return false since we install the SMBv1 feature at the beginning of this lecture:

Next, add the the following code before the test line:
# Apply the DSC Configuration to Node
Start-DSCConfiguration -CimSession $Session -Path $ConfigPath -Wait -Verbose

When we execute this code, it will remove the feature and let us know it's pending a reboot:

We could force a reboot with the following line when we are sure nobody is using the computer.:
Invoke-Command -ComputerName $TargetServer -ScriptBlock {restart-computer}
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