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One of the things I have pointed people to a few times recently is the Windows Server Core document in the step by step guides for Server 2008. Want to know how to install a role ? It's in there. Configure TCP/IP from the command line ? That's...
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I'll be the first to admit that Servers don't need to have the nice look and feel that we get with Desktop Operating Systems. But since the core of the OS is common to both it is possible. In Windows Server 2003 we had the XP Themes Service and...
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Before I start - lets be clear THERE IS NO SOUND CARD IN A HYPER-V VM Good. Now that's out of the way lets talk about how we get sound in a Machine without a sound card - and this applies to a physical server too. Sitting in it's rack in the data...
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I think that the shutdown event tracker came in in Server 2003, and I'm sure that in some data centres it is a very useful tool for logging why servers were manually shut down. On a demo system, it tends to be a nuisance. Hyper-v, for example, disables...
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I've said a number of times that I think technical people are rarely secure in their own abilities; that they have a demon on their shoulder who whispers "You're not really, that good" ... "They'll find you out one day"...
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If you've read my post on adding disks to a Virtual machine , the techniques here should already feel familiar. We create a NIC , and we create a switch port. And then we tell the NIC it is connected to the switch port. Hyper-V creates VM switches...
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In an earlier post in this series (several posts ago now) I showed how I could use the Msvm_virtualSystemManagementService WMI object can be used to Configure resources in Hyper-V, and I started with the easy step of setting with memory and CPUs which...
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One of the things I've been saying I'd blog for a while is how to set up a cluster on Hyper-V. Since Hyper-V does not support sharing SCSI disks between machines, you need to use iSCSI - which is all fine and good if you're doing it in production...
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Please excuse the bad pun... When I first wrote the function I posted to display the state of virtual machines , I used a construction which has been familiar to programmers since time immemorial. If X=1 output this If X=2 output that etc Most modern...
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In my last post I explained how snapshots work and gave a little bit of PowerShell for creating a one . In the post before that I talked about creating a generic choose-tree function. What I wanted was to be able to call Choose-tree List_Of_Items...
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The machine is running quite happily and has never been snapped. Late on Monday make a snapshot. This does two things 1.If the Machine is running or in a saved state we make a copy of memory 2. We stop writing changes to its VHD and start writing changes...
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... In which we find VMs, them choose one, start them, stop them , and connect to them. I spent more of the last week than I planned looking at Hyper-V and Powershell, and I'm getting dangerously close to calling myself an expert. There are two WMI...
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Quite a lot of the last few days has gone into preparation for the Road-Show and making sure I had all the things right for show Windows Server Core. Core, as you probably know by now, is server 2008 with support of only a subset of features, and most...
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Hard on the heels of the news of management tools for Hyper-V , I find that the folks in Redmond chose a UK public holiday to release all the Admin tools for Windows Vista to manage Servers. The package is described in KB941314 - which doesn't seem to...
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I nearly leaked this ahead of time; as part of the Release Candidate for Hyper-V we have released a version of of the management console to run on Windows Vista SP1. (No, to the best of my Knowledge we don't have plans of a version which runs on XP or...
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It's only 7 months since I first installed Powershell. Hard to believe that last week I saw a copy of the OCS res kit with my name on the cover as a result of the PowerShell scripts I wrote, and worth remembering before criticizing other people's scripts...
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I've been waiting for this for a little while, in fact I had hoped to see a draft before it went public (although I wonder if that actually falls foul of the rules on not having "Secret" APIs). I could see the WMI providers from Powershell but working...
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