Archive for February, 2012

How To Boot From VHD with Windows 8 Consumer Preview

Feb 29th

Posted by Hans Vredevoort in Hans Vredevoort

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[Update: I have verified this procedure to also work with Windows 8 Consumer Preview]

Back in September I wrote a quick guide explaining how to boot from VHD from Windows 8 Developer Preview. This turned out to be a very popular blog that attracted thousands of viewers.

Today we can expect Windows 8 Consumer Preview and although I have not yet been able to test the procedure with this build, I am pretty confident that the following guide will work as well. As soon as I have the ISO I will proof these steps and change my blog if necessary.

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Powershell: Collect NIC PCI bus info for automation

Feb 24th

Posted by Maarten Wijsman in Maarten Wijsman

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When doing a deployment of a Hyper-V cluster consequently configuring the networking can be a pain in the you know what. Different vendors or changing hardware layouts are only two examples that can make automated deployment challenging. This blog will explain how you can collect information about which network adapter is located at what PCI bus with Powershell. This information you can then later use to rename network adapter, teaming, changing network adapter settings etc etc.

Let first start by collecting some information of the present network adapters. The Powershell command to do this is something like this:

Get-WMIObject Win32_PNPSignedDriver | where { $_.DeviceClass -eq “NET” -and $_.HardWareID -like “*PCI*”}

The result will look something like shown below:

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