Category Archives: Windows Server 2012

Project Honolulu

Posted on Tuesday 31 October 2017 by richardsiddaway

The recent announced project Honolulu – https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/windowsserver/2017/09/22/project-honolulu-technical-preview-is-now-available-for-download/ – is Microsoft’s new browser based Server management tool. You can install it on Windows 10, Windows Server 1709 and Windows Server 2016, 2012 R2 and 2012 Honolulu is the proposed replacement for … Continue reading →

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New PowerShell console on Server Core

Posted on Thursday 17 November 2016 by richardsiddaway

Server Core is great for reducing the footprint of your VMs – Nano server is smaller but it can’t be a domain controller One draw back to server core is that you only get a single console. If you hang … Continue reading →

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Don’t reinvent the wheel

Posted on Monday 31 October 2016 by richardsiddaway

Way back when I used to take Microsoft certification exams there were often questions of the form “Perform task X with the minimum of administrative effort” Most, if nor all, of the possible answers would be correct but the correct … Continue reading →

Posted in Powershell, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016 | 1 Comment

DHCP scope lease time

Posted on Wednesday 7 January 2015 by richardsiddaway

I wanted to reduce the lease time on a DHCP scope $lt = New-TimeSpan -Hours 12Set-DhcpServerv4Scope -ScopeId 10.10.54.0 -LeaseDuration $lt You could even make it a one liner if you wished Set-DhcpServerv4Scope -ScopeId 10.10.54.0 –LeaseDuration (New-TimeSpan -Hours 12)

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Formatting disks – – the new way

Posted on Monday 14 July 2014 by richardsiddaway

Last time I showed how to format disks using the Win32_Volume CIM class. If you need to perform this activity on a Windows Server 2012/Windows 8 or later system you can use a couple of cmdlets from the Storage module … Continue reading →

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Working with Server Core–renaming the machine

Posted on Tuesday 13 May 2014 by richardsiddaway

When you create a new Windows server it usually assigns a name of its own. I always prefer using my own names for servers – I usually create the name so it gives some indication of the machine’s purpose. Renaming … Continue reading →

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Working with Server Core–setting IP addresses

Posted on Monday 12 May 2014 by richardsiddaway

When you create a new Windows machine it defaults to using DHCP to get an IP address. While that is fine for client machines most people apply a static address to their servers. Up until Windows 2012 you had 2 … Continue reading →

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Working with Server Core–Domain join

Posted on Monday 21 April 2014 by richardsiddaway

Windows Server can be installed in two ways – full fat GUI or Server Core.  The latter is Windows without Windows.  The GUI components are stripped off and you’re just left with the core components.  This results in a smaller … Continue reading →

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Checking license activation

Posted on Sunday 13 April 2014 by richardsiddaway

I’m building some virtual machines for my demo’s at the upcoming PowerShell summit.  To make the demo’s, and setup, more interesting(?) I decided to use some Server Core instances. The usual setup activities become a bit more interesting with Server … Continue reading →

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VM disk info

Posted on Tuesday 14 January 2014 by richardsiddaway

A question came into the forum about getting information on the virtual disks associated with particular Hyper-V virtual machines. Is a bit of a digging exercise but this gets the results: Get-VM |foreach {$VMname = $psitem.NameGet-VMHardDiskDrive -VMName $VMname  | foreach … Continue reading →

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