Friday Mail Sack: Super Slo-Mo Edition

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NedPyle [MSFT] — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 21:39:50 GMT

Awww, I was all excited about showing IE 9 being awesome at something!!!

;-)

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Klyde Whitman — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 21:35:28 GMT

Strike my request, folks. More of a problem printing from Firefox than IE. :)

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Klyde Whitman — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 21:18:25 GMT

Would it be possible to get a "Printer Friendly Version" button or is it here and I am not seeing it?

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LA Richards — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 18:20:37 GMT

I'm under the impression that most of the underlying technology doesn't change between 2003 and 2008R2 but there isn't a good way to verify this. Most of the "How (GP/GC/DFS/FRS/DNS) work" specifically references Server 2000/2003. Its great stuff, for the dorks like me who read it.

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NedPyle [MSFT] — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:06:58 GMT

I miss Firefly so much...

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LA Richards — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:05:23 GMT

They also left out Wash's "I'm a leaf on the wind."...very disappointing.

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NedPyle [MSFT] — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 13:35:38 GMT

That is an excellent point. :)

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Pronichkin — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 21:06:35 GMT

I didn't want to argue further but amusingly this resonates with another question (on memory technics). The more you type something in command line, the more your hands get remember it and the less you need to think of it. My point here is that keeping recommending a particular tool or command *is* building an automation around it (to some extent).

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NedPyle [MSFT] — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 14:05:40 GMT

I wouldn't say "don't use" servermanagercmd. It is deprecated, but works fine and is still fully supported. The guidance we give on it is not to get used to it or build automation around it, because we plan to remove it.

Good call on the servermanager Psh. I updated the post with your clarification Artem, thanks.

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Pronichkin — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 13:54:54 GMT

Couple of thoughts on Q2.

1. Do *not* recommend or use ServerManagerCmd tool (or PKGMgr or OCSetup or whatever). It is considered deprecated even on 2008 R2. If you like the command-line approach, go with Server Manager CMDLets for PowerShell.

2. DISM is a cool low-level tool that *intentionally* allows you to bypass certain checks. E.g. you can use it to enable Hyper-V role for an OS that is running itself inside a virtual machine. Obviously this won't allow you to run “nested” VMs. (Well, those checks for hardware virtualization capabilities are there on purpose). But this could be handy if all you want are some WMI interfaces.