Adds install with Powershell

I am trying to use powershell to install ADDS. I have installed a Forest successfully. When I tried to install a DomainController I get this error:
Verification of user credential permissions failed. An Active Directory domain controller for the domain "mysite.com" could not be contacted. Ensure that you supplied the correct DNS domain name.
So then I tried adding this:
$Username = "Administrator"
$SecurePassword = ConvertTo-SecureString "@#PaSsWoRd" -Asplaintext -Force
$credentials = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential($Username, $SecurePassword)
Still the same error.

You might want to start checking that you are pointing to the correct DNS servers, that your DCs A and SRV records are properly registered and that you can do DNS resolution using
NSlookup:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/29184.nslookup-for-beginners.aspx
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/241515?wa=wsignin1.0
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Hi,
According to your post, my understanding is that you wanted to add the Note board web part to a page with PowerShell.
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I recommend to use the powershell code below:
$pageUrl="http://sitename/SitePages/test.aspx"
$SiteURL="http://sitename"
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Best Regards,
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Hi,
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[SOLVED] Advice for Arch install with rEFInd dual boot Lenovo laptop?

I am trying to plan an Arch install on a new laptop for dual boot with Windows 8.1, but I know there is a potential to cause huge problems so I have been trying to read and learn about the hard disk partition structure and how I might install the rEFInd boot files so that I am still able to boot Windows once Arch is installed. (Unfortunately for some tasks such as updating the maps on my satnav box Windows is essential). However I am really quite unsure if I am doing the right thing in the way I am thinking about the Arch install so I would appreciate any help from experts on the forum.
The laptop is a Lenovo IdeaPad Y510p which came with Windows 8 pre-installed, with the option to upgrade to Windows 8.1. The upgrade was completed without issue and I then looked into the question of hard drive partitions and boot. I had read posts on the Ubuntu forums about users who had installed Ubuntu on this same laptop and ended up being unable to boot Windows afterwards so I wanted to tread very carefully before executing anything which might cause really major damage. I had also read on the Lenovo forums replies about people who had replaced the hard drive and installed linux only to find that they could not boot to the recovery partitions, with replies from Lenovo moderators saying that if the partition structure had been changed then the laptop would have to be sent back to Lenovo for a factory repair.
On this laptop to get into the bios or boot options you do not just press the power button and hit an F key, but instead there is a special small "OneKey Recovery" button next to the power jack, which opens up with options for BIOS setup and boot options as well as normal boot or recovery. This OneKey Recovery button is therefore needed to boot a usbkey - the power button only allows it to boot to windows presumably until/unless a different bootloader and NVRAM entry is amended.
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The current arch install iso (February 2014) boots under uefi just fine - and of course once booted I have access to the gdisk programme. That certainly showed the pre-existing partitions on the drive (8 partitions with partition number 2 being the EFI partition, and three recovery partitions!) with a GPT partition table, and it should therefore be possible to make the necessary new linux partitions in the now unallocated space on the disk that was freed up with the internal disk management facility within Windows 8.1. So at that point I created three partitions for a root partition (type 8300), a swap partition (type 8200) and another type 8300 partition which will become /opt in the installed Arch system.
In order to try and not make any changes to the partition structure I let the three new linux partitions be number 9, 10 and 11.
I am told that for a GPT disk it is a definite no-no to try to create more than one EFI partition. So I will need to use the existing EFI partition to place the rEFInd files and the kernel once I install Arch.
In this (Y510p) laptop the EFI partition contains the following structure:
BOOT/ - containing only boot.sdi
BOOTSECT.BAK
EFI/ which contains two directories Boot/ and Microsoft/
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and EFI/Microsoft/ contains a Boot/ directory - so
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plus bootmgfw.efi (which I believe is the Windows main efi loader file)
bootmgr.efi
memtest.efi
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Then I can mount the EFI (vfat) partition as /boot/efi and so I can then make a /boot partition under /. Then the EFI /BOOT/ directory would be seen in Linux as /boot/efi/BOOT/ and the Windows efi stuff would be in /boot/efi/EFI/Boot/Microsoft/Boot/ in which case I would presume that I have to make a new directory in /boot/efi/EFI/refind/ and put the refind stuff including the filesystem drivers there, and let the kernel go into the (ext4) /boot/ directory which would be preferred! However I am not 100% confident that this is what will work and I need to read more before trying to do the install. The thing that concerns me is how the system will handle the uefi boot process, and whether it would auto-detect the Windows efi file as well as the Arch refind efi file once the system has started up?
... and then there is the issue of the NVRAM entries and I am no longer confident that if I use the usual tools to create an entry (efiboomgr or bcfg), that I will get a successful dual boot system!
There is still a chance that I would irrevocably damage being able to boot to the Windows and Recovery partition boot options by messing up the EFI and/or the NVRAM so I have to tread very very carefully with this.
If anyone has gone through this kind of dual boot install with a Windows 8 or 8.1 machine using rEFInd for the bootloader, and can offer advice or help here I would very much appreciate it. I have another pure Arch system which uses rEFInd that works extremely well, but it seems that dual boot with uefi is a rather more complex animal than a pure linux system!
Last edited by mcloaked (2014-02-22 10:06:03)

vipin wrote:I have recently bought the y510p , im planning to install Arch , this is my 4th laptop , i had installed Arch in all the other 3 with no problems, but im a bit worried with the installation as this is the first laptop which has EFI , im a linux user for the past 6 years , i started with fedora , now i like Arch , mike documentation is excellent, i just had one question when i had grub , it automatically finds the new kernel when i update (grub.conf/menu.lst gets updated), does rEFInd also do that.
When there is an update to the rEFInd package you need to copy the files across to your ESP from the files contained in /usr/share/refind/ usually you need to copy the refind_x64.efi binary as well as the icons, fonts, and drivers directories. Since there is flexibility in how you configure the kernel and initrd files in terms of where they are located whether you need to do anything else when a new kernel update arrives depends on how you set your system up. If you have the /boot directory as your ESP partition which will then have the kernel and initrd files updated by default then there no need to do anything else when there is a kernel update. If the ESP is then at /boot/EFI and within that is your refind/ directory then that is where the replacement files go if refind-efi gets a pacman update. So it is actually fairly straight forward. If you configure rEFInd to look for kernels in some other directory than /boot/ then you may need to copy the files there after a kernel update but there is more information in the arch wiki about this.
During a refind-efi package update there are helpful files in the pacman output (and log) reminding you of what you need to do. eg for the latest refind-efi update you get:
[2014-06-18 18:48] [PACMAN] upgraded radvd (1.12-1 -> 1.13-1)
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] rEFInd UEFI application has been installed at /usr/share/refind/refind_*.efi
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] Other UEFI applications have been installed at /usr/share/refind/tools_*/
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] UEFI drivers have been installed at /usr/share/refind/drivers_*/
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] Copy the efi application (according to your UEFI ARCH)
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] and /usr/share/refind/refind.conf-sample to a sub-directory of <EFISYS>/EFI/
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] as refind.conf and add an entry to firmware boot menu using efibootmgr
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] or mactel-boot (for Macs)
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] rEFInd Icons have been installed at /usr/share/refind/icons/
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] rEFInd Fonts have been installed at /usr/share/refind/fonts/
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] HTML Documentation is available at /usr/share/refind/docs/html/
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] More info: [url]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/UEFI_Bootloaders#Using_rEFInd[/url]
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]
[2014-06-18 18:48] [PACMAN] upgraded refind-efi (0.8.1-1 -> 0.8.2-1)
I hope that helps.
By the way you can also boot uefi using grub and in fact you can get rEFInd to chainload grub as a backup bootloader as an added safety factor and have both rEFInd as well as grub installed simultaneously. How that can be done is explained in the thread at https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=181906
Last edited by mcloaked (2014-06-25 17:41:12)

Error while installation of Java add-on with EP on ABAP

Dear All,
We are trying to install java add-on with EP on present ABAP system, but getting struck up with error as below at creating java users (sapjsf) in central instance installation phase.
ENVIRONMENT:
ECC6.0
WIN 2003
KERNEL 136
SUPPORT PACK LEVEL AT 13
NETWEAVER 2004S SR1.
DB- ORACLE
error: ( usercheck.log)
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/sun/tools/javac/Main
Exception in thread "main" Reserved 1610612736 (0x60000000) bytes before loading DLLs.
Critical Error
Launching program failed
-> Internal program error (rc = -1)
error: (sapinst.log)
WARNING 2008-08-11 15:00:00
Execution of the command "C:\usr\sap\B60\DVEBMGS00\exe\jlaunch.exe UserCheck.jlaunch com.sap.security.tools.UserCheck "C:\Program Files\sapinst_instdir\ERP\LM\AS-JAVA\ADDIN\ORA\CENTRAL\CI\install\lib;C:\Program Files\sapinst_instdir\ERP\LM\AS-JAVA\ADDIN\ORA\CENTRAL\CI\install\sharedlib;C:\Program Files\sapinst_instdir\ERP\LM\AS-JAVA\ADDIN\ORA\CENTRAL\CI\install" -c sysnr=00 -c ashost=sapserver -c client=001 -c user=DDIC -c XXXXXX -a checkCreate -u SAPJSF -p XXXXXX -r SAP_BC_JSF_COMMUNICATION_RO -message_file UserCheck.message" finished with return code -1. Output:
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/sun/tools/javac/Main
Exception in thread "main" Reserved 1610612736 (0x60000000) bytes before loading DLLs.
Critical Error
Launching program failed
-> Internal program error (rc = -1)
INFO 2008-08-11 15:00:00
Removing file C:\Program Files\sapinst_instdir\ERP\LM\AS-JAVA\ADDIN\ORA\CENTRAL\CI\dev_UserCheck.
ERROR 2008-08-11 15:00:00
CJS-30197 . For more details see output of logfile:
ERROR 2008-08-11 15:00:00
FCO-00011 The step createJSF with step key |NW_Addin_CI|ind|ind|ind|ind|0|0|NW_CI_Instance|ind|ind|ind|ind|8|0|NW_CI_Instance_Doublestack|ind|ind|ind|ind|2|0|createJSF was executed with status ERROR .
Please help us out at your earliest convenience.
Thanks and warm regards,

Hello. Note 1126481 - SAP installation terminates in step createJSF
Hmmm. but it on UNIX platform...as i can see you have Windows....
Try to check JAVA_HOME and PATH are set correctly ?
Regards.

Apple Mobile Device Support Doesnt Seem To Be Installing With Itunes

Title says it all really, i have been doing troubleshooting on installing itunes on my computer which is running windows 7 ultimate (64bit) once i got it installed finally and plugged my ipod (touch) in it came up with the message "this ipod cannot be used because the required software is not installed" (i have reinstalled many times) & from previous troubleshooting i figure i should be re-installing mobile device support or something, but it is not located in my add or remove programs, which suggests that for some reason it is not installing with itunes and i desperately want to update my ipod.
Any help is GREATLY appreciated.

Huh. Well, might be a bit stumped here. Here's one last thing to try.
1. Plug-in your iPhone and uninstall the driver (Right-click it in device manager and choose "Uninstall")
2. Uninstall iTunes and all apple software.
3. DELETE the two registry entires we created earlier:
HKEYLOCALMACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Apple Mobile Device
HKEYLOCALMACHINE\SOFTWARE\Apple Inc.\Apple Mobile Device Support
4. Reboot
5. Re-download and Re-install the latest iTunes
6. Follow the steps in my Blog again, but this time, just put it in the same directory I had C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple
7. Reboot and try again.
Like I said, who knows, I'm not sure on this since I don't have a 64-bit version to test it on, but it's worth a shot, right?

Set multi user column with PowerShell used to work in 2010 but no longer works in 2013

In SharePoint 2010 I used PowerShell to set the value of multi user people columns and it worked really well. I attempt to use the same PowerShell to set the same column type in SharePoint 2013 and it fails.
here is the PowerShell that I use in 2010:
$web = Get-SPWeb "http://intranet"
$list = $web.lists["TestList"]
$item = $list.items.add()
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$users = @("Domain\user1", "Domain\user2")
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$userList.Add($userValue)
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I have used this on three SharePoint 2013 farms with differing results. On two of them I receive an error when running $item.update(): Exception calling "Update" with "0" argument(s): "Invalid look-up value. A look-up
field contains invalid data. Please check the value and try again."
If I take one of the users out of the $users list then it works fine, but it will not allow multiple users to be set with PowerShell. I can use the GUI to add more than one user but not PowerShell.
Does anyone know if these methods have changed in 2013? I haven't been able to find anyone else with this issue.
mmm... coffee...

Not sure but maybe something to do with casting. Below is the code snippet from one of the blogs. Try modifying your script like below and see if still you get the error
[Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFieldUserValueCollection]$lotsofpeople = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFieldUserValueCollection
$user1 = $w.EnsureUser("domain\user1");
$user1Value = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFieldUserValue($w, $user1.Id, $user1.LoginName)
$user2 = $w.EnsureUser("domain\user2");
$user2Value = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFieldUserValue($w, $user2.Id, $user2.LoginName);
$lotsofpeople.Add($user1Value);
$lotsofpeople.Add($user2Value);
$i["lotsofpeoplefield"] = $lotsofpeople;
$i.Update();
#-or-
$l.Fields["lotsofpeoplefield"].ParseAndSetValue($i,$lotsofpeople);
$i.Update();
Reference to the link
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/20831.sharepoint-a-complete-guide-to-getting-and-setting-fields-using-powershell.aspx
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How to ID specific printer drivers installed with system?

Good evening.
How can I find out what specific printer drivers are installed with my current OS 10.4.11 software?
It has been updated by the "software update" route since original install by Apple at factory.
I would like to use my old but bulletproof Epson Color Stylus 600 printer. The Apple support site says that support should be there.
Thanks for your time.

Just add the printer. If you did not install printer drivers you can do so from the Optional Installer on the Tiger DVD.

Trying to install IIS Powershell snap-in

Installed Powershell 4.0 on our Win2008 servers. Wanting to install IIS powershell snap-in to help automate IIS management.
Went to this URL:
http://www.microsoft.com/web/gallery/install.aspx?appsxml=&appid=IISPowershellSnapin%3bIISPowershellSnapin
This launches the Web Platform Installer (4.6) which subsequently says:
Microsoft Web Platform installer couldn't find the product you tried to install.
How do you download/install the IIS Powershell snapin?
Powershell 4.0
Windows Server 2008

When you get to that message prompt in the WPI, type IIS in the search box in the upper right and hit Enter. Click the Add button next to IIS: Management Scripts and Tools, and IIS Manager for Remote Administration v1.2. I'm not positive which
one is needed because I tried both before actually trying to import the webadministration module, but one of the two definitely worked.
That installer seems really dysfunctional. The exe I downloaded said IISPowershellSnapin but then that component isn't installed by default and you have dozens and dozens of unrelated products that are available. Not to mention that the IIS Manager
for Remote Admin failed to successfully download and install completely for me....
I hope this post has helped!

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