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Wednesday, June 25, 2008 9:55 PM

Setting up Domain controllers on Server Core.

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 there
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Monday, June 16, 2008 2:19 PM

How I get the server 2008 I want: #3: Vista look and feel

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 if you
Posted by jamesone | 3 Comments
Monday, June 16, 2008 12:13 PM

How I get the server I want: #2 Getting sound in Hyper-V

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-centre
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Monday, June 16, 2008 8:21 AM

How I get the server I want: #1 Disabling the shutdown event tracker

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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Saturday, June 14, 2008 2:28 PM

Doubts and Powershell, Hyper-V KeyValue pairs and Hash tables.

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". I was talking
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008 11:58 AM

The Hyper-v API Network interfaces

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 which
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Friday, May 16, 2008 8:22 PM

iSCSI, clustering and Hyper-V

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 with
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Sunday, May 11, 2008 2:02 PM

More on the Hyper-V API

In which we see how to set the number of CPUs I started with getting MSVM Computer System objects - which I showed back in February . With these objects I can ask for the state of the VM to be changed to Running, Stopped or Saved. To do things in a proper
Posted by jamesone | 2 Comments
Wednesday, May 07, 2008 4:49 PM

Ways to tidy up my PowerShell - including making a hash of stuff

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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Saturday, May 03, 2008 12:44 PM

Hyper-v Snapshots part 2.

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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Friday, April 25, 2008 1:39 AM

Accessing the Hyper-V API: disks.

... In which we create compact, mount, unmount vhds In my last post I said " There are two WMI objects which do most of the work", and mentioned the one named "Msvm_ImageManagementService". I spent last week with  poor Internet
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Saturday, April 19, 2008 5:51 PM

More on the accessing the Hyper-V API from Powershell

... 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 objects
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008 5:23 PM

Core! that firewall management has some tricks.

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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Wednesday, March 26, 2008 4:46 PM

Remote Server Admin tools for Vista

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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Wednesday, March 26, 2008 12:28 PM

Manage Hyper-V from Vista

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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