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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....
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What’s New in Windows Server 2012 R2 Lessons Learned Week 1
Dan Stoltz asked me to republish this article, and it is well worth it! Check out all of the links – a lot of great material! -MDG It has been an incredible start to the Windows Server 2012 R2 Launch...
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Server Core Address Woes
From the files of “What the F@rk?!” Here’s a little gotcha that I’ve been wrestling with all afternoon. I hope this post can save some of you the frustration (exacerbated by jetlag) that I have been...
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Server Core: Save money.
I remember an internal joke floating around Microsoft in 2007, about a new way to deploy Windows Server. There was an ad campaign around Windows Vista at the time that said ‘The Wow Starts Now!’ When...
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Step by Step: Adding the GUI to Windows Server Core
HELP! Mitch, you told me that I should learn Server Core and I am trying, but you also told me that it wasn’t a problem to add the GUI back into a Server Core machine if I really needed it. How do I...
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Another tough exam…
As a subject matter expert (SME) on virtualization, I was neither excited nor intimidated when Microsoft announced their new exam, 74-409: Server Virtualization with Windows Server Hyper-V and System...
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Expand your knowledge on Windows Server 2012!
Okay, we know that you are probably upset that Windows Small Business Server is being retired. Fortunately Windows Server 2012 R2 will do you well… but do you know everything you will ever need to...
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Do IT Remotely
A few days ago I was in with my boss and he asked me to perform a particular bit of maintenance during off-hours. ‘Just come into the office tonight after Taekwondo and do it… it shouldn’t take you...
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End Of Days 2003: The End is Nigh!
In a couple of days we will be saying goodbye to 2014 and ringing in the New Year 2015. Simple math should show you that if you are still running Windows Server 2003, it is long since time to upgrade....
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Keep Up: How to configure SCOM to monitor the running state of services and...
Windows runs on services. Don’t believe me? Open your Services console and count just how many are running at any given time. Of course, some of them are more important than others… especially when...
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Cluster-Aware Updates: Be Aware!
When I started evangelizing Windows Server 2012 for Microsoft, there was a long list of features that I was always happy to point to. There are a few of them that I have never really gone into detail...
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Broken Cluster? Clear it up.
Three years ago I wrote an article about cleaning up nodes of clusters that had been corrupted and destroyed (See Cluster Issues… how to clean out cluster nodes from destroyed clusters). Unfortunately...
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Insanity Is…
We have all heard this quote before… and it is exactly true. However in your server environment, when you want things identical, then we would turn this phrase around: Insanity: Doing things manually...
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Help! My Servers Aren’t Being Monitored!
This isn’t right… I have System Center Operations Manager monitoring all of my servers for me, but this morning I noticed that several of my servers are in a warning state, but they are greyed out...
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Let’s Spread the Action Around… With NLB! (Part 1)
**AUTHOR’S NOTE: I have written hundreds of articles on this blog over the past decade. Until recently I spent a lot of time taking screen shots of GUI consoles for my how-to articles. For the time...
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Where am I? HELP!
My colleague created a virtual machine for me in our datacentre a few weeks ago. (Thanks Michael!) Earlier this week I needed to create a second virtual machine to cluster with it, and I felt that...
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Server Core: Every bit the Full Server as the GUI is!
Microsoft introduced Server Core with Windows Server 2008, which means that it was the same kernel as Windows Vista. Now, nobody is going to stand up and sing the praises of Vista, but Server 2008 was...
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iSCSI Virtual Disks: If you have to make a bunch… Use PowerShell!
I don’t mean to sound like a broken record but when you have to do things over and over again, it simply doesn’t make sense to do it manually. Sure, the GUI (Graphical User Interface) in Windows is...
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How To Cheat With PowerShell
Admit it… you are a crappy coder. You may be a pretty fair IT Professional, but you cannot script your way out of a paper bag. There’s a support group for you. Hi, my name is Mitch, and I’m a lousy...
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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....
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