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Remote manage a SQL environment with PowerShell

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downloadIn this article I want to talk about managing a SQL 2012 Server with PowerShell from a remote computer. As I’ve mentioned in an earlier blog post PowerShell is becoming more and more important in the day to day task of a system administrator.

I am using PowerShell ISE as scripting application. It is a simple scripting tool but it does everything I need at this time to make my PowerShell work easy.

 

$fldr = "C:\users\robin\Documents\PowerShell\data"
$credential = Get-Credential
 
$credential.Password | ConvertFrom-SecureString | Set-Content "$fldr\adminpassword.bin"
 
$password = Get-Content "$fldr\adminpassword.bin" | ConvertTo-SecureString
 
$cred = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential("contoso\adminrobin", $password)
 
New-PSSession -Name SQL -ComputerName sql01.contoso.com -Credential $cred
 
Enter-PSSession -Name SQL

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Enabling Remote Desktop remotely with PowerShell

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downloadLast week I was busy building a new lab environment on my Hyper-V environment. My automated installation joined the machine to my LAB environment domain and disable the Windows Firewall. The only thing I forgot to include was enabling Remote Desktop. It was not posible to start a remote registry session, and I did not have my machine running that has the Hyper-V Manager installed.
The solution is to open a remote PowerShell sessie via the ServerManager.

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Create a PowerShell Profile ready for XenDesktop Management

PowerShell_Logo Today I want to show you how to create a PowerShell instance that is all ready for managing a Citrix XenDesktop 7.1 environment.

We’ve all been there you want to check something quickly in your environment. You start up PowerShell, enter a command and you are presented with an error message that the command you just entered is not recognized by PowerShell.

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We get this error message not because of a typo but because the Citrix Snap-ins are not loaded in this PowerShell session.

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