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In the last 2 months I passed my first two MCITP (Microsoft Certified IT Professional) Certifications. The first was the new MCITP: Windows Server 2008 R2, Virtualization Administrator and the second was the MCITP: Enterprise Administrator. I am really happy it was hard work but I think it was worth it.
If you are using Microsoft Hyper-V R2 Core Server, installing the HP Support Pack is a little different. This post should show you how this is done.
You could also try to run the HP Smart Update Manager on another machine and use the remote connection feature.
This little HowTo shows you how you can attach or detach VHDs (Virtual Hard Disk) in Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7. Basically you can use the Disk Management in the Server Manager to do that.
You can also attach and detach VHD’s via diskpart.exe
Attach VHD via Diskpart.exe
diskpart select vdisk file="D:\Users\Public\Documents\Hyper-V\Virtual Hard Disks\data.vhd" attach vdisk
Detach VHD via Diskpart.exe
diskpart select vdisk file="D:\Users\Public\Documents\Hyper-V\Virtual Hard Disks\data.vhd" attach vdisk
Today I saw that my favorite FTP tool on Mac also released a version for Windows. The software is still beta but if you like the Mac version you will also like the Windows version.
I don’t think it will replace Total Commander for me, but we will see. You can find more information about the new Windows release of Cyberduck on the Cyberduck Homepage.
This is a simple Powershell script which deletes Files older than some days. You can use it to cleanup old logfiles or other things. If you run the script the first time you can add the “-WhatIf” parameter after Remove-Item command.
# Delete all Files in C:\temp older than 30 day(s)
$Path = "C:\temp"
$Daysback = "-30"
$CurrentDate = Get-Date
$DatetoDelete = $CurrentDate.AddDays($Daysback)
Get-ChildItem $Path | Where-Object { $_.LastWriteTime -lt $DatetoDelete } | Remove-Item
If you need to delete files in subfolders too, you can use this script. This is the same script with the Get-Childitem parameter “-Recurse”.
# Delete all Files in C:\temp older than 30 day(s)
$Path = "C:\temp"
$Daysback = "-30"
$CurrentDate = Get-Date
$DatetoDelete = $CurrentDate.AddDays($Daysback)
Get-ChildItem $Path -Recurse ( | Where-Object { $_.LastWriteTime -lt $DatetoDelete } | Remove-Item
Quest released PowerGUI Pro and PowerGUI 2.3. Both get really cool new features. In the Pro version the most changes are done in the MobileShell. In the free version the most changes are done in the support for snippets. And they now support virtualization now with the VMware Powerpack right build in.
If you wanna know more about the changes of PowerGUI visit poshoholic.com.
If you have a Windows Server 2008 R2 Core Server or a Hyper-V R2 Server, which is also managed like a Core Server, you are really happy if you can use the Server Manager for this Remote Machine. Basiclly I had the the Remote Setup done. I could connect to the remote Machine with the Server Manager but when I tried to use the Disk Management on a remote Server and I got the following error “RPC server is unavailable”. After checking it I found the solution. The Problem is that the Firewall blocks the remote communication to virtual disk service. So you have to open the Firewall on the Management Machine
netsh advfirewall firewall set rule group="Remote Volume Management" new enable=yes
