Reading Time: 2 minutesThis blog post is going to be a small one. Azure Stack Development Kit has just been released and I thought it was about time I got it running on one of my Hyper-V servers. Before I was able to, I ran into an issue with the storage. I had Read more…
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn this post, I am going to show you how to create NAT (network address translation) rules for Hyper-V Virtual Switch on Windows 10 or Windows Server 2016. A NAT rule is used to open inbound communication to your VM’s behind a NAT Switch. The most common use for NAT Read more…
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn this post, I am going to show you how to create a NAT (network address translation) Virtual Switch for Hyper-V on Windows 10 or Windows Server 2016. A virtual NAT switch enables virtual machines to be isolated behind a single shared IP address on the host server. This is Read more…
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn this post, I am going to show you how to perform a Rolling Cluster Upgrade from Windows Server 2012 r2 to Windows Server 2016. I will then show you how to upgrade the functional level of the cluster to the latest version. This guide does not show you how Read more…
Reading Time: 3 minutesWith Windows Server 2016 we have some cool new features within Hyper-V. One of them are Hyper-V Virtual Machine Groups. In this post I am going to explain what Virtual Machine Groups are and how to create them. What are Hyper-V Virtual Machine Groups? First thing to note is that Read more…
Reading Time: 2 minutesRecently I have needed to configure an Active Directory to replicate changes between sites straight away. They had everything set to replicate at the default 15 minutes but this was not quick enough due to a dispersed helpdesk. The best way to do this is to enable Use Notify replication. Read more…
Reading Time: < 1 minuteRecently I have managed to get a new work laptop, one that can utilize nested Virtualisation with Hyper-V. Because of this, I needed to create my lab again. I had some spare time so I decided to create a basic script to help me create new Hyper-V Virtual Machines via Read more…
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn this article, I am going to try and explain how to get a website running on Windows Nano Server. I am going to use PowerShell for the management of IIS because at the moment you cannot use the IIS Management tools for Nano Server. If you need to install Read more…
Reading Time: 2 minutesA cool new feature of Active Directory Domain Services on Server 2016 is the ability to allow administrators to assign temporary group membership to users. This is expressed by TTL (Time-To-Live) Value. This value will be added to the Kerberos ticket. When a user is assigned to a group temporally, Read more…
Reading Time: 3 minutesI thought it was about time to go back and play with Windows Nano Servers! So in this post, I am going to try and explain how to get a create an SMB File Share running on Windows Nano Server. [themify_box style=”note”] Note: My Nano server is based in azure Read more…