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'Windows Server 8' Category
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Hypervisor Early Launch
March 31, 2013One of the interesting architectural changes in Hyper-V 2012 Server is the boot order. In Windows Server 2008, first booted partition was the OS in parent partition. After booting partition it was launching Hypervisor using hvboot.sys. hvboot.sys was performing following actions: Detects whether a hypervisor is already loaded or not Determines processor if it is [...]
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Windows Server 8 – Disk Management with PowerShell 3.0
April 6, 2012Before Windows Server 8 and PowerShell 3.0, to manage your local, virtual or remote disks there were no native PowerShell cmdlets. You had only below choices; – Using Diskpart (Easy for basic tasks but not flexible) – Using WMI (Flexible but hard to use) Diskpart has its own arguments and does not permit you to [...]
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Windows Server 8 – Web Based PowerShell !
April 5, 2012One another great feature of Windows Server 8 is ability to run your PowerShell commands on your browser from anywhere. This is really amazing feature. While PowerShell is becoming a “must” tool for almost all Microsoft products, using it on your mobile phone or browser will add great value to our day-to-day tasks. This feature [...]
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PowerShell 3.0 – Shell from Future
March 30, 2012PowerShell 3.0 is shipped with Windows 8. We are still experiencing some of the great features of Windows Server 8, but PowerShell 3.0 also brings many new features. Thanks to PowerShell Product Team for such a great innovation. In this blog post, I will discuss about some of simplified syntaxes. PowerShell Integrated Script Environment has [...]
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Windows Server 8 – Manage Hyper-V 3.0 with PowerShell
March 27, 2012One of the major feature of Windows Server 8 is Hyper-V 3.0 This new version of Microsoft virtualization platform brings great improvements and features. In this blog post we’ll cover a couple of Windows Server 8 Hyper-V PowerShell command lets. Using PowerShell cmdlet will reduce most of day-to-day administrative tasks. Open Windows PowerShell ISE and [...]
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Windows Server 8–Live Migration Demo
March 23, 2012Beta version of Windows 8 went to live on 29th February. Development team announced that it had reached over 1 million downloads within the first 24 hours. Considering this is a pre-release software, 1 million is an incredible start for Microsoft. I believe lots of you are still experiencing new features. Windows Server 8 is [...]