DexterPOSH's Blog

Well the title is interesting enough, right ? I saw some interesting comments when I posted the below pic around the release of Server 2016 TP3 in our PowerShell FB group: In this post, I try to tell how I use this simple trick in my everyday use.

I am taking this new initiative to learn Server 2012 along with Server Core..... Lab Setup: I have VHD booted Server 2012 with full blown GUI on my Physical Machine (Name - DexterPOSH). Then I have enabled the Hyper-V role on my this machine and installed a Server Core 2012 on a VM created in the Hyper-V (Name - DexServercore). Along doing this Lab Setup, I came to learn cool things and I want to share them: Step 1 : Download the trial Server 2012 iso. Step 2 : I have a Windows 7 box , so to test the Server 2012 I am going to VHD Boot the Server 2012 for 180 days (license period) then delete the VHD and the boot entry. Here is a great article on how to do this for Windows 8 but the steps are the same for Server 2012 too. Step3 : Once you have VHD Booted your machine to Server 2012. Open our favorite PowerShell console and run the following to install Hyper-V role on the host  Get-WindowsFeature -name *hyper* | Install-WindowsFeature Reboot your machine to complete ...