Course outline for 70-410, Installing and Configuring Windows Server 2012. Install Servers: Plan for a server installation; plan for server roles; plan for a server upgrade; install Server Core; optimize resource utilization by using Features on Demand; migrate roles from previous versions of Windows Server Configure servers Configure Server Core; Delegate administration; 3. Add and remove features in offline images; 4. Deploy roles on remote servers; 5. Convert Server Core to/from full GUI; 6. Configure services; 7. Configure NIC teaming ...

This is where the morning ended (Tuesday, 3 December 2013): 15. Tessanne Chin – Redemption Song (The Voice Performance) 17. Cole Vosbury – Rich Girl (The Voice Performance) 20. Jacquie Lee – Cry Baby (The Voice Performance) 23. Cole Vosbury – Better Man (The Voice Performance) 25. Will Champlin – A Change Is Gonna Come (The Voice Performance) 27. Will Champlin – Hey Brother (The Voice Performance) 33. Tessanne Chin – Unconditionally (The Voice Performance) 36. James Wolpert – I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That) [The Voice Performance] 39. Matthew Schuler – When a Man Loves a Woman (The Voice Performance) 45. Matthew Schuler – Story of My Life (The Voice Performance) 46. Jacquie Lee – The Voice Within (The Voice Performance) 48. James Wolpert – Fell In Love With a Girl (The Voice Performance) ...

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6Wk9X1gTOM] This one seems designed to keep our girl @Tessanne on the show. Let us not wait until the last minute to get up to speed on this! @Tessanne has quite the twitter army so everyone should get ready to save her on Tuesday night if she is in danger in the bottom three. Go out and preach folks! Get your neighbours to #Tweet when if the signal is given! ...

I have spent ages on this so I am really happy that I got this to work. I was unable to find much documentation on the interwebs on this so I wanted to document this in case someone runs into the same problem I did. Supersonic is a version of Subsonic with restrictions removed. Subsonic has a 30 day limit on mobile app use. Key feature to me. I wanted to be able to play much in jukebox mode, using my Android device as the remote. The speakers are connected to the sound card of my NAS. ...

My iPXE setup is coming along just lovely, and it is working out just fine. My goal is to avoid scurrying around like a headless chicken looking for USB flash drives and optical media whenever I have to work on someone’s system. This part usually takes the most out of me when I am fixing a system as I can never seem to find install media, usb drives and my tools. I sure wish I could network boot my tools! I’m trying to become more organized in that regard :-). ...

Network Booting my WinPe image with pxelinux has been an illusive goal of mine. I got it working :-). Get iPXE I downloaded iPXE into my home folder: git clone git://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git cd ipxe/src make cp bin/undionly.kpxe /tftproot/ PXE Chainloading I have configured my network to chainload iPXE using the “undionly.kpxe” image. I configured my dhcp server (dd-wrt) to point to my tftp server which runs on my NAS. I placed “undionly.kpxe” in the tftp root folder. ...

I have been demystifying Hyper-V in my Lab environment. I have configured a few VMs in an isolated network and I wanted to play with the remote management features from my main system and avoid RDP where possible. The process to get this working was far from simple and Microsoft really needs to remedy this as my last visit was way more fun that this. Luckily google came to my aid and led me to “hvremote”. It took me awhile to get this working but eventually I noticed the “10 second guide” and I realized I had missed the step to “allow Anonymous logon remote dcom access”. ...

I am in the process of learning Microsoft Windows Server 2012. I’m a hands on learner for the most part and working with a lab environment always speeds up my learning exponentially. I have been looking for the most practical Lab options. I’m looking for flexibility, I want to be able to practice in an isolated environment at home and at work. I am amazed at the amount of Lab options that are available these days. Way back when I was pursuing Microsoft Certified System Engineer certification on Windows 2000 my lab consisted of two broken down computers. I recall that these systems even though they were less than stellar, ran Windows 2000 with Active Directory very well. These systems were AMD K6-2 (remember those?) with 64 MB of memory. ...

I have this web server that I manage and from time to time I need to do a system restart. A powershell script might be a quicker way to restart the system. First however I must configure the system for powershell remote management. I went ahead and installed WinRM 2.0 and Powershell 2.0 on the web server. On the Target 2003 Server: 1. Install WinRM 2.0 and Windows PowerShell 2.0 2. Enable-psRemoting ...

I have been using Growl for Windows for a few months and I think it is a very cool application. I use it mostly at home with Sickbeard and Couchpotato. In Sickbeard, when a show is snatched, that is the show has been submitted to your download manager (Transmission in my case) a notification will be sent to growl. When the the download has been completed, a notification will be sent to growl. This is especially useful when I am waiting a particular show to finish downloading. ...