Archive for March, 2015

My Server Core April Fools’ Day Prank

We are rapidly closing in on April 1st and, as a Server Core afficianado, I can’t resist playing a practical joke on my colleagues managing our Server Core installations. Inspired by the Scripting Guy blogpost yesterday, I’ll disable all network adapters using the following PowerShell Oneliner:

Get-NetAdapter | Disable-NetAdapter -Confirm:$false

I’ll be running these commands via remote block execution pointing to a couple of Server Core installations offering non-vital and redundant services.  Since we have monitoring, it’ll be interesting to see in what manner and timeframe my colleagues will be able to solve the riddle of their servers falling off the network. Luckily, it’s been a while since anything happened to these hosts, but that is to be expected when you go Server Core.

Some Active Directory Domain Controllers, that second DHCP server, perhaps that second issuing Certification Authority, but certainly the Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) Server will see some action in one week’s time. *evilgrin*