Tag: Windows PowerShell
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A response to a VMware article… written by someone I respect.
While he may not be very well know to the Microsoft community, Mike Laverick is a legend in VMware circles. Mike owns a blog called RTFM Education, a source of white papers for VMware technology, although he did start out as a Microsoft Certified Trainer. He now works for VMware as a Senior Cloud Infrastructure…
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Building the IT Camp with PowerShell Revisited
I always said I am not hard to please… I only need perfection. So when I wrote my PowerShell script to build my environment the other day I was pleased with myself… until I realized a huge flaw in it. Generation 1. Actually to be fair, there is nothing wrong with Generation 1 virtual machines…
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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…
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Building an IT Camp with PowerShell
I have been telling people for a couple of years that if they want to ensure a good future in the IT field there are two things to learn: System Center and PowerShell. I unfortunately am quite good with one, but have been referring to myself as a scripting luddite for quite some time. It…
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Managing Hyper-V Virtual Machines with Windows PowerShell
Warning: The following post was written by a scripting luddite. The author readily admits that he would have difficulty coding his way out of a paper bag, and if the fate of the world depended on his ability to either write code or develop software then you had better start hoarding bottled water and cans…
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From Server Core to GUI to… MinShell?
This post was originally written for the Canadian IT Pro Connection blog, and can be seen there at http://blogs.technet.com/b/canitpro. In Windows Server 2008 we were introduced to a revolutionary way to install Windows Server: Server Core. Server Core may look boring – there’s nothing to it except the command prompt – but to an IT…
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Hyper-V on the Client: How to install the hypervisor on Windows 8
For four years people have known me as the Hyper-V guy, and of course my interest in Microsoft virtualization dates back to 2004. However I am also known as a Windows client guy – my MVP Award category is Windows Expert (IT Pro). So what could be better than combining the two? Microsoft has given…
The World According to Mitch 