Category: Command Line Switches

• Change the Page in Command Line

  Have you ever wondered what happens when you format a server (or any Windows system) with a small bootable drive, and a large secondary drive?  Why would you?  It shouldn’t matter, right? Recently a client of mine discovered different, when he formatted a server and then discovered that the Paging File was placed on the…

  Mitch Garvis

  February 7, 2018

  Command Line Switches, Page File, Paging File, Server Core, WMI

• Creating a New AD Forest in Windows Server Core (Revisited)

  Several years ago Steve Syfuhs and I sat down and figured out how to create a new Active Directory forest in Windows Server Core.  It was an interesting experience, and even though I later gave rights to that article to the Canadian IT Pro Team (at the time it was Damir Bersinic) when you search…

  Mitch Garvis

  October 9, 2013

  Active Directory, Command Line Switches, Domain Controllers, Server Core, Server Manager

  Command-line interface, Installation (computer programs), IP address, Microsoft Windows, PowerShell, Windows PowerShell, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012

• Command Line Switches

  One of the skills that you will need to know to be good at Desktop Deployment using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT 2010) is the ability to discover and maintain a list of command line switches that you use frequently.  At the request of some of my students, I am going to post a few of…

  Mitch Garvis

  November 15, 2011

  Command Line Switches, Deployment, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit