Microsofts solution for this is to create multiple pagefiles. You can now create multiple pagefiles on different partitions. If you don’t have enough partitions or you just have one, you can create multiple pagefile in different folders by using the Windows Registry.

1. Create the folders on the drive where the pagefiles should be located. For example, C:\Pagefile1, C:\Pagefile2, and C:\Pagefile3.
2. Open regedit.exe
3. I would recommend to create a backup of the registry
4. locate this key:
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\SessionManager\MemoryManagement
5. Edit the value “PagingFiles”
6. Remove the existing values and add the following values:
   C:\Pagefile1\pagefile.sys 4096 4096
   C:\Pagefile2\pagefile.sys 4096 4096
   C:\Pagefile3\pagefile.sys 4096 4096
7. Save this

Note: It’s still recommended to have the Pagefiles on the same partition as the system

You can get more information in this Microsoft Knowledge Base entry: How to overcome the 4,095 MB paging file size limit in Windows

How to do this with Powershell: Powershell: Changing registry key value

This is a very small line of code to count Sharepoint 2010 Site Collections with Powershell.

[powershell]
(Get-SPSite -Limit all).Count
[/powershell]

By the way, we at Genotec AG are offering a Hosted Sharepoint 2010 solution based on Powershell automation.

Normalfilename:

“filename.html”

Wrongfilename:

” filename.html”

You cannot really name a file like that with a windows machine. But Linux and Unix systems like Mac OS X allow this.

After renaming the file to a normal Windows filename, the customer you download the file again.

Btw you can simple rename the file with powershell

Rename-Item " filename.html" "newfilename.html"

1. Copy the SCVMM 2008 R2 on the Server
2. Start the Setup.exe
3. Install VMM Server, the installer check that this is an update of an existing installation
4. After updating the VMM Server you have to install the new VMM Administrator Console and the new Self-Service Portal if needed.
5. The installer of the VMM Administrator Console and the VMM Self-Service Portal will first uninstall the old version and then install the new version.
6. After installing the SCVMM 2008 R2 you have to check for Windows Updates
7. After a rebooting the SCVMM Server you have to push the new Agent Update to the Virtual Host Servers
8. Now you are done

Whats new in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2:

• Support for Live Migration
• Hot addition/removal of Storage
• New optimized networking technologies
• Cluster Shared Volumes
• SAN migration
• Expanded Support for iSCSI SANs
• Storage Migration
• Rapid Provisioning
• Support for third party CFS
• Support for Veritas Volume Manager
• Added Maintenance Mode
• Support of disjoint domains
• Use of defined port groups with VMware Virtual Center
• Queuing of Live migrations
• Host Compatibility checks

Under Windows Server 2008 you could install Roles and Features with the command OCSETUP. Since we use Windows Server 2008 R2 Microsoft used the tool called DISM (Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool).

For checking availible Server roles type:

Dism /online /get-features /format:table

To enable a Feature or a Role, in this case the DNS Server Role, you just type:

Dism /online /enable-feature /featurename:DNS-Server-Core-Role

• Windows 2000 RTM with all Service packs = Schema version 13
• Windows Server 2003 RTM with all Service packs = Schema version 30
• Windows Server 2003 R2 RTM with all Service packs = Schema version 31
• Windows Server 2008 RTM with all Service packs = Schema version 44
• Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM with all Service packs = Schema version 47

Check the schema version in the Registry:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NTDS\Parameters\<Schema Version>

Check the schema version with dsquery:

dsquery * CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=Root-Domäne -Scope Base -attr objectVersion

Create a new partition and format a partition

SELECT DISK 0
CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY
ASSIGN LETTER=E
SELECT PARTITION 1
FORMAT FS=NTFS LABEL="New Volume" QUICK
EXIT

Commands you may then issue at the DISKPART prompt:

LIST Disk
LIST Partition
LIST Volume

SELECT Disk n
SELECT Volume n
SELECT Partition n

DETAIL Disk
DETAIL Partition
DETAIL volume

HELP
REM (remark/comment)
EXIT

Commands to Manage Basic Disks:

(set the current in-focus partition to be the system partition)

ASSIGN (allocate the next free drive letter)
ASSIGN LETTER=l (Choose a free letter)

CREATE PARTITION Primary Size=50000 (50 GB)
CREATE PARTITION Extended Size=25000
CREATE PARTITION logical Size=25000

DELETE Partition

EXTEND Size=10000

REMOVE letter=l (Remove drive letter l from the in-focus partition)
REMOVE /ALL (Remove ALL current drive letters and mount points)

Commands to Manage Dynamic Disks:

(set the current in-focus partition to be the system partition)

ASSIGN (allocate the next free drive letter)
ASSIGN LETTER=l (Choose a free letter)

ADD disk=n (Add a mirror to the in-focus SIMPLE volume on the specified disk.)

BREAK disk=n (Break the current in-focus mirror)

CREATE VOLUME Simple Size=n Disk=n
CREATE VOLUME Stripe Size=n Disk=n,n,...
CREATE VOLUME Raid Size=n Disk=n,n,...

DELETE DISK
DELETE PARTITION
DELETE VOLUME

EXTEND disk=n [Size=n]
IMPORT
ONLINE

REMOVE letter=l (Remove drive letter l from the in-focus volume)
REMOVE /ALL (Remove ALL current drive letters and mount points)
RETAIN

Commands to Convert Disks:

CONVERT mbr
CONVERT gpt
CONVERT dynamic
CONVERT basic

CLEAN ALL (remove all partition and volume info from the hard drive)
RESCAN

1. Download the latest HP ProLiant Support Pack for Windows Server 2008 R2
2. Eable SNMP on Windows Server 2008 R2 Core by typing start /w ocsetup SNMP-SC
3. Extract the HP ProLiant Support Pack on a Management Machine to C:\Supportpack
   
4. Connect to the Remote Windows Server Core for example \\hyperv01\c$
   
5. Create the folder C:\hp on the Remote Core Server
6. Copy the files from C:\supportpack to \\hyperv01\c$\hp
   
7. On the Core Server execute C:\hp\hpsum.exe
   
8. Install the HP Supportpack as usual
   
9. Reboot the Server

You also can enable Remote MMC and Remote Server Manager to simply connect from a management server to the core server and add roles with GUI. This may only work within a domain environment. You can enable remote management pretty easy with the sconfig.cmd. Find out more about configuring Windows Server 2008 R2 Core installations here.

List available server roles and features:

oclist

Install, uninstall and configure Active Directory Domain Service role:

dcpromo

Help for dcpromo:

PS C:\> dcpromo /?

Command line parameters include:

/unattend[:filename]
Used to specify the unattend operation mode or supply an unattended install script file.

/adv
Enables advanced user options.

/uninstallBinaries
Used to uninstall Active Directory Domain Services binaries.

/?[:{Promotion | CreateDcAccount | UseExistingAccount | Demotion}]

/?:Promotion, /?:CreateDCAccount, /?:UseExistingAccount, and /?:Demotion
will display unattend parameters applicable to the specified task. /CreateDCAccount and /UseExistingAccount:Attach are mutually exclusive.

/CreateDCAccount
Creates an RODC account.

/UseExistingAccount:Attach
Attaches the server to an RODC account.

/forceRemoval
Forcefully uninstalls Active Directory Domain Services on this domain controller. The account for the domain controller will not be deleted in the directory, and changes that have occurred on this domain controller since it last replicated with a partner will be lost.

/?
Will display this help.

Unattend parameters can also be specified on the command-line. For example:

dcpromo.exe /ReplicaOrNewDomain:Replica

Press any key to quit ...

Install a role or feature its basically always the same:

start /w ocsetup <roleorfeature>

start /w ocsetup DNS-Server-Core-Role

Uninstall a role or feature:

start /w ocsetup <roleorfeature> /uninstall

start /w ocsetup DNS-Server-Core-Role /uninstall

Install SNMP feature:

start /w ocsetup SNMP-SC

Install Microsoft Hyper-v role:

start /w ocsetup Microsoft-Hyper-V

1. Download Windows 7 USB/DVD Tool and install it
2. Start the programm and choose the .iso Image (Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2)
   
3. Choose which media you want to create (USB)
   
4. Choose USB device
   
5. Begin Copying and after some minutes your USB Stick is ready to use