Configure DNS Setting via Powershell

Hi,
I am trying to get a script together that will configure a static IP address, DNS, and WINS server settings. The instructions here are great, except the DNS part doesn't work.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2012/02/28/use-powershell-to-configure-static-ip-and-dns-settings.aspx
Here are the commands in the script:
$wmi = Get-WmiObject win32_networkadapterconfiguration -filter "ipenabled = 'true'"
$wmi.EnableStatic("192.168.1.2", "255.255.255.0")
$wmi.SetGateways("192.168.1.1", 1)
$wmi.SetDNSServerSearchOrder("208.67.220.220", "208.67.222.222", "8.8.8.8")
$wmi.SetWINSServer("192,168,1,1")
Each time I run the script it fails on the DNS portion. I am doing this on Windows Server 2012. The specific error message is: Cannot find an overload for "SetDNSServerSearchOrder" and the argument count: "3".
Any ideas? Thanks
Jason Watkins MCSE, MCSA, MCDBA, CCNA

Hi N74JW,
What is your current situation?
If issue insists, you may take a try to save the DNS Server into a variable, see:
$dnsSearchOrder = "208.67.220.220", "208.67.222.222", "8.8.8.8"
$wmi.SetDNSServerSearchOrder($dnsSearchOrder )
Then check if issue could be solved.
Best regards
Michael Shao
TechNet Community Support

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Hi grobinson,
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Figure 1.
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Run Windows PowerShell as administrator, then type
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Figure 2.
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(Figure 3)
Figure 3.
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Firstly, please join the Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard computer to the existing domain through the path:
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Figure 4.
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Figure 5.
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Figure 6.
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Figure 7.
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Figure 8.
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Figure 9.
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Figure 12.
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Figure 13.
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Figure 14.
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Figure 15.
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Figure 16.
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Figure 17.
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Figure 18.
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Figure 19.
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Figure 20.
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(Figure 21)
Figure 21.
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Figure 22.
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Figure 23.
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Figure 24.
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Figure
25.
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Figure 26.
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===============
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Great news! I found the solution and all props and credit goes to
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img.Dispose();
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string tempPath = Path.Combine(Path.GetTempPath(), "wallpaper.bmp");
copy.Save(tempPath, System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Bmp);
RegistryKey key = Registry.CurrentUser.OpenSubKey( @"Control Panel\Desktop", true ) ;
key.SetValue(@"WallpaperStyle", 1.ToString( ) ) ;
key.SetValue(@"TileWallpaper", 0.ToString( ) ) ;
SystemParametersInfo( SPI_SETDESKWALLPAPER,
0,
tempPath,
SPIF_UPDATEINIFILE | SPIF_SENDWININICHANGE );
function Set-Wallpaper([string] $imgurl)
compile-CSharp $code
[test.Wallpaper]::SetWallpaper($imgurl)

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Message was edited by: albfran
Message was edited by: albfran

[Here is a DNS server set-up sequence|http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/1436]. That's end-to-end.
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Post the output of the Terminal.app commands +dig server.example.com+ and +dig -x server.ip.address.here+ in its entirety, and I'll have a look at the data returned. (If you want to obfuscate your domain there, that's fine, but don't obfuscate the 192.168.0.0/24 addresses anywhere in what's returned, and the obfuscation of the host names needs to be consistent for the output to be useful in diagnosing this.)
And FWIW, you probably aren't the organization that has registered the server.com domain name, so please stop using that domain either for real in your configuration, or using it as your example domain name. If your intent is to obfuscate your domain name (and which is fine by me) then use example.com, example.net or example.org as your domain name. These are RFC-reserved example domains. This usage both avoids referencing a domain you don't have registered, and it makes your intent here clear. It means I don't have to ask you "is that your real domain, or are you obfuscating?".

Configure DNS for website hosted externally

Hi,
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Thanks in advance.
intel iMac 20" Mac OS X (10.4.6)

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to a partular IP but I'm unsure how to do this in
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The interface is a little different, but the process
is the same - use Server Admin -> DNS, select your
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Set the name to 'www' and give it the IP address of
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Thanks Camelot.
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Our network was hit recently with virus previously unknown, O97M.Crigent. It is a nasty Macro virus that targets Microsoft Office Documents & Spreadsheets and uses a combination of Macros and Scripts via Powershell.
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Disabling Windows PowerShell can be done with GPO:
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Server - I wouldn't apply it at all. I have seen too many issues when setting this policy on Exchange and other systems.
If you are using a Group Policy to define a PowerShell logon, logoff or computer script, that script will disregard any execution policy set locally or through a GPO.
http://4sysops.com/archives/set-powershell-execution-policy-with-group-policy/
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh849812.aspx
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How to know via PowerShell "did user install office on his computer with office 365 or not"

Hello. Sorry for my english.
Subject: How to know via PowerShell "did user install office on his computer with office 365 or not"
I set to users Office 365 ProPlus license, that allows a user to install Office on up to five computers. I want to know, user use this opportunity or not, install office or not.
User can view his installation in the Office 365 portal:
But how I (like admin Office365) can view this information? Maybe via PowerShell?
Thank you...

Hi,
Please see the
blog, I copied the part of here:
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Viewing a list of Office 365 ProPlus installations
A user can see which computers she has installed Office on by signing in to the Office 365 Portal and going to the
software page.
Only the signed in user can see this information. Even if you are the administrator for your organization's Office 365 subscription, you can't see this information in any of your Office 365 administrative views. This also means you can't deactivate
a user's installation of Office on a specific computer. More on deactivation in a bit.
====
If you have further question about Office 365, I recommend you post the question to Office 365 forum:
http://community.office365.com/en-us/f/148.aspx
Regards,
George Zhao
TechNet Community Support
It's recommended to download and install
Configuration Analyzer Tool (OffCAT), which is developed by Microsoft Support teams. Once the tool is installed, you can run it at any time to scan for hundreds of known issues in Office
programs.

Could someone who has dns set up correctly confirm that this test works?

The test that's here http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106798 says if you attempt to visit this link:
http://17.254.0.91
and you are taken to Apple's page then you probably don't have your DNS set up correctly.
Can anyone confirm, who has their DNS set up correctly, that attempting to visit that link does not work for them please?
TIA

Right, thanks for that info. I don't understand what all the code stuff is at all, but I do understand this:
If you type in the link stated and you are taken to Apple’s page then DNS IS SET UP CORRECTLY.
I'm still confused though. In that article/test in part of its explanation of DNS it says:
If you encounter some applications that continue to work, it may be because they are set up to go directly to an IP address, bypassing the need for DNS service.
Surely typing in http://17.254.0.91 into your browser is a way of making your browser access apple's site *bypassing DNS*? -- because you're using the IP address irradicating the need for changing a name into an IP address. The way to test if DNS is working, surely, is to try and access apple's site via www.apple.com? Not http://17.254.0.91.
Thanks.

Is there a way to enable & configure Volume Discounts via the Product Import Spreadsheet? Is there a way to enable more than 2 Quantity Thresholds?

Is there a way to enable & configure Volume Discounts via the Product Import Spreadsheet? Is there a way to enable more than 2 Quantity Thresholds?

Hi Michael,
You can set the thresholds via an import file. The easiest way to do this (and this goes for all importable data, webapps included, 301 redirects and so on) is this:
1. go into the Admin and create a single item, in you case create a test product and set the thresholds
2. export that data - in your case export the product list
3. take a look at how the data looks like in the export file so you can get an idea of how the format should be like in the import file
Unfortunately you cannot set more than 2 thresholds, that is not possible at the moment.
Thanks,
Mihai

Can you add delegate access to a user's calendar or mailbox folder via powershell?

Basically I want to know if you can grant a user delegate access to another user's calendar or meeting room using native powershell commands?
I know you can do this via method 1, listed below, however when you grant permissions in this way and if a user wants to see who has delegate access to their calendar or inbox by going to delegate access in outlook they will not see user's who have access
to their calendar or inbox.
Method 1:
Add-MailboxFolderPermission -Identity "userA:\Calendar" -User UserB -AccessRights editor
The above is a nice and simple way of granting userB EDITOR access to UserA's calendar.
But as stated above as you are using mailboxFolderPermissions and not DelegateAccess, this applies directly to this folder and if userA goes to their delegate access view in Outlook, they will not see that userB has access to their calendar.
I know that you can use the below commands to see a list of user's who have delegate access to you calendar:
Get-Mailbox userA | Get-CalendarProcessing | select resourcedelegates
I am new to powershell and don't know if there is a way of setting delegate access to a user's calendar or inbox/folder via powershell commands, similar to the above.
Any help with this query would be much appreciated!
thanks

Delegate access is simply a combination of folder rights (which you've described) and Send As right, which is conferred by Add-MailboxPermission or Send On Behalf of right, which I'm not sure if you can confer with PowerShell. Set-CalendarProesssing applies
to resource mailboxes like conference rooms, not to user mailboxes.
Update: "Send on Behalf of" is conferred this way:
Set-Mailbox UserMailbox -GrantSendOnBehalfTo UserWhoSends
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