Copy GPO with PowerShell

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If you need to make a copy of a group policy, using the Group Policy Management Console can be a slow process. Using PowerShell is a much faster process.

All you need is the name of the source GPO copied to the clipboard.

You can also copy by using the GUID of the source and/or destination GPO. In addition, you can copy GPOs between domains.

I don’t have an image of copying between domains because my lab only contains a single domain.

SQL to get last hardware scan

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The last hardware scan is stored in the view v_GS_WORKSTATION_STATUS. When joined with either v_R_System_Valid or v_R_System, you can retrieve the last hardware scan for a computer.

The SQL code below will return the last hardware scan date for all computers in the ConfigMgr system.

Results from the above query.

If you need to return the last hardware scan for a single computer you can use the query below to filter by the computer name. In this example, we filtered on computer ‘pc01’.

Results from the above query.

Get Hyper-V guest serial number

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The following command will return the serial number of the VM specified.

GetVMSerialNumber

Automatic virtual machine activation

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How do you activate your Server VMs running under Hyper-V? If you’re in a production environment you likely use a KMS server. But what about test/dev environments, or home labs? Luckily, there is another option, if you’re using the Datacenter edition of Windows. Before anyone freaks out about the Datacenter requirement, that edition is included with the Visual Studio subscriptions, and is available to many college students for free as part of Microsoft’s Imagine Premium program.

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