Windows Server 2012 R2 Archives - Thomas Maurer

Learn about Windows Server Cluster Functional Levels

Thomas Maurer — Thu, 21 Feb 2019 15:00:59 +0000

A couple of weeks ago, I released a blog post about Hyper-V VM Configuration versions to give an overview about the version history of Hyper-V virtual machines. After that I had the chance to work with John Marlin (Microsoft Senior Program Manager High Availability and Storage) on a similar list of Windows Server Cluster Functional Levels. Why …

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Install SNMP on Windows Server Core

Thomas Maurer — Sat, 15 Sep 2018 11:13:39 +0000

If you run Windows Server as Core Installation, like Windows Server 2016 Core or any Microsoft Hyper-V Server edition and you want to use SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) on that system, you first have to install the SNMP feature on that Core Server. After that you can use the MMC to remotely connect to …

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Install FTP Server on Windows Server

Thomas Maurer — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 14:23:45 +0000

Windows Server has IIS build in, which also offers an FTP server option. The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is still a very popular protocol that allows users to simply upload and download files. Of course today you have more modern options, however, it is still very often used and a lot of legacy applications still …

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Windows Server 2019 In-place Upgrade

Thomas Maurer — Thu, 30 Aug 2018 18:42:27 +0000

As another part of my series for Windows Server 2019, this blog post covers the in-place upgrade feature. The in-place upgrade allows you to upgrade your existing LTSC versions of Windows Server 2012 R2 or Windows Server 2016 servers to Windows Server 2019. Windows Server 2019 In-place Upgrade will enable businesses to update to the …

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Open website from PowerShell

Thomas Maurer — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 15:23:21 +0000

If you want to directly open a website from the PowerShell console, you can use the Start-Process cmdlet. This will open the website in the default browser: Start-Process "https://www.thomasmaurer.ch" You can also use “Start” which is an alias for Start-Process: Start "https://www.thomasmaurer.ch" Yes this is a very short post, but I hope this …

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Verify installed Windows Azure Pack version

Thomas Maurer — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 07:49:13 +0000

If you want to check which version of Windows Azure Pack is installed or if you want to find out which Update Rollup of Windows Azure Pack is installed you can simply do this using two ways which help you to find the installed Windows Azure Pack version. You can check the version of the installed …

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Secure your Hyper-V environment with 5nine Cloud Security 8.1

Thomas Maurer — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 17:39:42 +0000

In the past years I was building several Hyper-V environments together with Enterprise customers and with service providers. In a lot of cases customer wanted more security in there Cloud and Virtualization environment. Security becoming a even more critical part in your datacenter and with a high virtualization rate, it gets even more critical and complex to manage. …

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PowerShell One-liner to list IP Addresses of Hyper-V Virtual Machines

Thomas Maurer — Mon, 25 Jul 2016 14:41:21 +0000

Here a very quick PowerShell command to list all the Virtual Network Adapters, including IP Addresses of Virtual Machines running on a Hyper-V Host. Get-VM -ComputerName "Hyperv01" | Get-VMNetworkAdapter This will give you a list of all Virtual Machines running on Hyper-V Server called “HyperV01”

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Windows Sysprep for Virtual Machines

Thomas Maurer — Tue, 31 May 2016 13:56:37 +0000

For using the same system image for different virtual machines or physical computer, Microsoft created a tool called sysprep.exe. This blog post covers Most people should be already familiar with that tool. If not here is the description: Sysprep prepares a Windows installation (Windows client and Windows Server) for imaging, allowing you to capture a …

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Basic Networking PowerShell cmdlets cheatsheet to replace netsh, ipconfig, nslookup and more

Thomas Maurer — Tue, 16 Feb 2016 17:57:26 +0000

Around 4 years ago I wrote a blog post about how to Replace netsh with Windows PowerShell which includes basic powershell networking cmdlets. After working with Microsoft Azure, Nano Server and Containers, PowerShell together with networking becomes more and more important. I created this little cheat sheet so it becomes easy for people to get …

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