PowerShell Cheat Code Sheet For Server Core Installation

70-410 Power shell Cheat Sheet

Please find the below list of Powershell commands which may be useful for the beginner to start with Powershell commands and execution in windows server environment.

Start List

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Cmdlet	Description
Add-ADCentralAccessPolicyMember	Adds central access rules to a central access policy in Active Directory
Add-ADgroupmember PhoenixAdmins PhoenixAdmin01, PhoenixAdmin02	Add members to group
Add-ADResourcePropertyListMember	Adds one or more resource properties to a resource property list in Active Directory
Add-Computer –DomainName domainname.com	Joins a computer to domain
Add-NetSwitchTeamMember	Adds a network adapter member to an existing switch team
Add-PhysicalDisk	Adds a physical disk to storage pool
Add-WindowsFeature	Adds a role or feature
Configure-SMRemoting.exe –Enable	Used to configure a computer running Windows Server 2012 for Remote Management
Configure-SMRemoting.exe –Get	Used to find out if a computer is configured for Remote Management
Enable-ADOptionalFeature –Identity ‘CN=Recycle Bin Feature,CN=Optional Features,CN=Directory Service,CN=Windows NT,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=nuggetlab,DC=com’ –Scope ForestOrConfigurationSet –Target ‘domain.com’	Enable Active Directory Recycle Bin
Enable-NetFirewallRule	Enables a previously disabled firewall rule to be active within the computer or a GP OU
Enable-PSRemoting	Configures the computer to receive Windows PowerShell remote commands that are sent by using the WS-Management technology
Enter-PSSession remote server name -credential user name	Establishes a PS session with a remote computer
Get-ADTrust	Returns all trusted domain objects in the directory
Get-ADUser	Gets one or more Active Directory users
Get-DNSServerGlobalQueryBlockList	List of servers that it does not respond to when the DNS server receives a query to resolve the name in any zone for which the server is authoritative
Get-Help Install-WindowsFeature	Gets the syntax and accepted parameters for the Install-WindowsFeature Cmdlet
Get-NetIPAddress	Gets information about IP address configuration
Get-StoragePool	Show storage pools
Get-VirtualDisk	Show virtual disks
Get-VM –ComputerName <NAME> | Enable-VMResourceMetering	Enable Hyper-V resource metering on Hyper-V host
Get-VM –ComputerName NAME | Measure-VM	To get all VMs metering data
Get-WindowsFeature	Used to get a list of roles and features installed on a computer running Server 2012
Import-GPO	Imports a GPO
Import-Module	Adds module to the current session
Install-ADDSDomain	Installs New Domain
Install-ADDSDomainController	Installs additional DC
Install-ADDSForest	Installs new forest
Install-AddsForest –DomainName “example.com”	Used to promote a server to an Active Directory Domain Controller and make that new DC responsible for a new forest
Install-WindowsFeature (for remote computer add the –computer flag, as in Install-WindowsFeature <Feature> -Computer <ComputerName>	Adds a role or feature
Install-WindowsFeature –name AD-Domain-Services	Installs Active Directory binaries
Install-WindowsFeature Migration	Adds Migration tools
Install-WindowsFeature –Name Hyper-V –ComputerName<name> -IncludeManagementTools -Restart	Installs Hyper-V on remote computer
Install-WindowsFeature Server-Gui-Mgmt-Infra	Installs Minimal Server Interface from Server Core
Install-WindowsFeature Server-Gui-Mgmt-Infra, Server-Gui-Shell –Restart	Switch from Server Core to Full GUI
Netdom renamecomputer %ComputerName% /NewName: <NewComputerName>	Renames computer
New-ADGroup (with appropriate flags)	Creates a new AD group
New-ADUser	Creates new AD user
New-GPO	Creates a new GPO
New-GPStarterGPO	Creates a new starter GPO
New-NetFirewallRule	New firewall rule
New-NetIPAddress –IPAddress 10.10.10.73 –InterfaceAlias “Ethernet” –DefaultGateway 10.10.10.1 –PrefixLength 24	Configures IP address- Server Core
New-SMBShare –Name Documents –Path D:\Shares	Creates a new SMB Quick share named Documents with the drive label D:
New-StoragePool –FriendlyName –StorageSubSystemFriendlyName –PhysicalDisks	Used to create a storage pool
New-NetRoute –InterfaceIndex 13 –DestinationPrefix 2001:ABCD: /64 –Publish Yes	Configure Network Route for ISATAP Interface
New-NetSwitchTeam	Creates a new switch team (for network traffic failover)
New-VM –Name “VMNAME” –MemoryStartupBytes <memory> -NewVHDSizeBytes <disksize>	Create a Hyper-V virtual machine
Remove-ADCentralAccessPolicy	Creates a new central access policy in Active Directory containing a set of central access rules
Repair-VirtualDisk	Repair virtual disk
Reset-ADServiceAccountPassword	Resets the password for a standalone managed service account. Reset is not supported for group managed service accounts.
Reset-PhysicalDisk	Removes physical disk from storage pool
Restart-Computer	Restarts a computer
Set-DnsClientServerAddress -InterfaceAlias “Ethernet” -ServerAddresses 10.10.10.70, 10.10.10.1	Configure DNS address- Server Core
Set-DNSServerGlobalQueryBlockList	Replaces all names in the list of names that the DNS server does not resolve with the names that you specify (if you need to resolve name  such as ISATAP or WPAD remove these names from the list).
Set-ExecutionPolicy	Enables you to determine which Windows PowerShell scripts will be allowed to run on your computer
Set-NetFirewallProfile	Enable Windows firewall
Set-NetFirewallRule	Modify existing firewall rule
Set-NetIPAddress	Modifies IP address configuration properties of an existing IP address
Set-NetIPInterface	Modifies IP interface properties such as in DHCP, IPv6 neighbor discovery settings, router settings, and Wake on LAN settings.
Set-NetIPv4Protocol	Modifies information about the IPv4 protocol configuration
Set-RemoteDesktop –Enable	Enable Remote desktop connections to the server
Show-WindowsFeatures	List of roles and features installed on a computer
Sync-ADObject	Replicates a single object between any two domain controllers that have partitions in common
Test-ADServiceAccount	Tests a managed service account from a computer
Uninstall-ADDSDomainController –ForceRemoval –LocalAdministratorPassword <password> -Force	Demotes a domain controller
Uninstall-WindowsFeature –Name GPMC –Vhd “path” –Remove	Features on Demand- removes binaries for Group Policy Management Console (can be used for any other feature).
Uninstall-WindowsFeature Server-Gui-Mgmt-Infra, Server-Gui-Shell –Restart (use –Remove before the restart to remove binaries)	Switch from full GUI to Server Core
Uninstall-WindowsFeature Server-Gui-Shell –Restart	Switch from Full to Minimal Server Interface; no IE, taskbar, Windows Explorer, or Control Panel

* Queries and suggestions are most welcome.