In the new world of Powershell you can replace many of the command line utilities used by Windows Administrators. Here is a way to replace Diskpart with PowerShell commands. 1. Check if the initiator can see the disk: Get-disk 2. Select the disk to bring disk online: Set-disk –number 3 –IsOffline $False 3. Make disk…
After you rebuild a Windows Server 2012 server all the storage spaces will default to read-only mode. Here are two commands to set them back to read/write mode. Get-StoragePool | Where-Object {$_.IsReadonly –eq $True } | Set-StoragePool –IsReadonly $False Get-VirtualDisk | Where-Object {$_.IsManualAttach –eq $True} | Set-VirtualDisk –IsManualAttach $False
While working with the Windows 8 Client Preview, I start experimenting with the alternatives to automate the Client Hyper-V. After a little while I build a script to allow a user to duplicate their Hyper-V Templates from PowerShell
While playing with the new Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 Client I found out that the .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 option was grey out and not available. After doing some digging and reading several forum I found the answer. Steps to enable .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 in Windows Server 2012 1. Open a Command Prompt…
Carlos Vargas 