Windows 10 Archives - Thomas Maurer Cloud and Datacenter Blog focusing on Microsoft Azure Thu, 30 Mar 2023 06:24:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.1 https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/cropped-icon1024-32x32.png Windows 10 Archives - Thomas Maurer 32 32 71605618 Install Kubernetes on Windows 10 and Windows 11 with AKS Edge Essentials https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2023/03/install-kubernetes-on-windows-10-and-windows-11-with-aks-edge-essentials/ https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2023/03/install-kubernetes-on-windows-10-and-windows-11-with-aks-edge-essentials/#respond Thu, 30 Mar 2023 06:24:46 +0000 https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/?p=24598 Awhile back I created a blog post on how you can install Kubernetes on Windows Server, and since then I also got a lot of questions on how to install Kubernetes on Windows 11 or Windows 11 IoT running Linux and Windows Containers. So, in this blog post we are going to have a look …

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]]> https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2023/03/install-kubernetes-on-windows-10-and-windows-11-with-aks-edge-essentials/feed/ 0 24598 Install Sysinternals from the Microsoft Store https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2021/10/install-sysinternals-from-the-microsoft-store/ https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2021/10/install-sysinternals-from-the-microsoft-store/#comments Fri, 15 Oct 2021 12:21:23 +0000 https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/?p=22707 Yesterday at Sysinternals@25 special event for the birthday of the Sysinternals Suite, Mark Russinovich (Technical Fellow, CTO Microsoft Azure, and creator of the Sysinternals tools) announced not only Sysmon for Linux but also the Sysinternals Suite is now available in the Microsoft Store and Windows Package Manager (Winget). So you can now get and install …

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]]> https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2021/10/install-sysinternals-from-the-microsoft-store/feed/ 2 22707 Getting started with Windows Package Manager WinGet https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2021/07/getting-started-with-windows-package-manager-winget/ https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2021/07/getting-started-with-windows-package-manager-winget/#respond Tue, 06 Jul 2021 05:12:00 +0000 https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/?p=21968 In this blog post I want to quickly share how you can get started with the new Windows Package Manager and the WinGet CLI. At the Microsoft Build conference 2021, the team announced Windows Package Manager (WinGet) 1.0. The Windows Package Manager was first announced in 2020 as a preview for Windows Insiders. Windows Package …

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]]> https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2021/07/getting-started-with-windows-package-manager-winget/feed/ 0 21968 Get System Uptime with PowerShell https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2021/03/get-system-uptime-with-powershell/ https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2021/03/get-system-uptime-with-powershell/#comments Thu, 11 Mar 2021 08:24:42 +0000 https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/?p=20150 Sometimes you want to know how long your system is running. There are multiple ways to get the uptime of your system using the GUI or command line. PowerShell also offers a simple way to get the system uptime. If you are running PowerShell 6 or PowerShell 7 you can get the uptime with this …

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]]> https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2021/03/get-system-uptime-with-powershell/feed/ 3 20150 Find the Hostname of a Hyper-V VM https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2021/01/find-the-hostname-of-a-hyper-v-vm/ https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2021/01/find-the-hostname-of-a-hyper-v-vm/#comments Tue, 19 Jan 2021 07:53:55 +0000 https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/?p=19743 If you are running a virtual machine (VM) on Hyper-V, sometimes you want to know on which Hyper-V host this VM is running. If you don’t have access to the Hyper-V host, you need to find that information from within the virtual machines operating system. Luckily, the hostname of the physical Hyper-V server the virtual …

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]]> https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2021/01/find-the-hostname-of-a-hyper-v-vm/feed/ 4 19743 Empty Windows recycle bin with PowerShell https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2021/01/empty-windows-recycle-bin-with-powershell/ https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2021/01/empty-windows-recycle-bin-with-powershell/#respond Fri, 15 Jan 2021 14:29:38 +0000 https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/?p=20135 Windows has the concept of the recycle bin, from which you can restore files you have deleted. You might want to clear the Windows recycle bin from time to time, to remove unnecessary files and free up space. You can do that using the Windows user interface, or you can empty the Windows recycle bin …

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]]> https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2021/01/empty-windows-recycle-bin-with-powershell/feed/ 0 20135 Install Apps from the Microsoft Store using WinGet https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2021/01/install-apps-from-the-microsoft-store-using-winget/ https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2021/01/install-apps-from-the-microsoft-store-using-winget/#comments Thu, 07 Jan 2021 10:24:13 +0000 https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/?p=19982 Back at Build 2020, Microsoft showed a new package manager for Windows called WinGet (Currently in Public Preview). The winget command-line tool enables IT Pros and developers to discover, install, upgrade, remove, and configure applications on Windows 10 computers. This tool is the client interface to the Windows Package Manager service. One of the latest experimental features …

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]]> https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2021/01/install-apps-from-the-microsoft-store-using-winget/feed/ 2 19982 Eject ISO from Hyper-V VM using PowerShell https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2020/08/eject-iso-from-hyper-v-vm-using-powershell/ https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2020/08/eject-iso-from-hyper-v-vm-using-powershell/#respond Tue, 18 Aug 2020 06:05:09 +0000 https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/?p=16572 This is one of these quick and dirty blog posts mostly as a note for myself. Hyper-V offers the capability to add an ISO image to a virtual CD/DVD drive and you can use Hyper-V Manager to do that, or you can also use PowerShell. Here is how you can eject or remove an ISO …

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]]> https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2020/08/eject-iso-from-hyper-v-vm-using-powershell/feed/ 0 16572 Add ISO DVD Drive to a Hyper-V VM using PowerShell https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2020/08/add-iso-dvd-drive-to-a-hyper-v-vm-using-powershell/ https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2020/08/add-iso-dvd-drive-to-a-hyper-v-vm-using-powershell/#comments Tue, 04 Aug 2020 07:05:53 +0000 https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/?p=16575 Hyper-V offers the capability to add an ISO image to a virtual CD/DVD drive and you can use Hyper-V Manager to do that, or you can also use PowerShell. Here is how you can add an ISO to a Hyper-V virtual machine (VM) using PowerShell. There are two ways of doing it if you already …

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]]> https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2020/08/add-iso-dvd-drive-to-a-hyper-v-vm-using-powershell/feed/ 2 16575 How to Manage Hyper-V VM Checkpoints with PowerShell https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2020/07/how-to-manage-hyper-v-vm-checkpoints-with-powershell/ https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2020/07/how-to-manage-hyper-v-vm-checkpoints-with-powershell/#comments Tue, 07 Jul 2020 07:23:00 +0000 https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/?p=16579 In this blog post we are going to have a look at how you can create, manage, apply, and remove VM Checkpoints in Hyper-V using PowerShell. Hyper-V virtual machine (VM) checkpoints are one of the great benefits of virtualization. Before Windows Server 2012 R2, they were known as virtual machine snapshots. VM Checkpoints in Hyper-V …

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