Jay-R Barrios

Windows Server Technical Preview: Join to a Domain with PowerShell

Here’s to join your Windows Server Technical Preview to an existing domain: Launch PowerShell ISE Type this command: Add-Computer -DomainName <yourdomain.com> -Restart Enter a domain credential   After the restart, your server is now domain joined.

PowerShell: Creating a new Active Directory Forest in Windows Server Technical Preview

PowerShell is king! that’s what they say, and indeed it is. I have Windows Server Technical Preview which has been available to the public since October 2014 for download at this link http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-server-technical-preview Here’s the one liner script on how to create a new Active Directory Forest in PowerShell on Windows Server Technical Preview. Install-ADDSForest -DomainName lab.demo -Confirm … Continue reading →

Intel NUC D54250WYKH: Installing LAN Driver on Windows Hyper-V Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2019

Updated: These steps still applies in installing NIC drivers on Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2019 The Intel NUC are very handy when you need a portable Windows lab environment (most geeks do need it) and recently I got an Intel NUC D54250WYKH  and installed Windows Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 but after the installation I got a … Continue reading →

Windows 10 Technical Preview Installation Screen Shots

Windows Server Technical Preview Evaluation now Available!

Windows Server Technical Preview Evaluation now Available here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-server-vnext-technical-preview?i=1 Description: At the heart of the Microsoft Cloud OS vision, Windows Server brings Microsoft’s experience delivering global-scale cloud services into your infrastructure. Windows Server Technical Preview provides a wide range of new and enhanced features and capabilities spanning server virtualization, storage, software-defined networking, server management and … Continue reading →

University Of Makati ICT Seminar 10.09.2014

Download the PDF file here: University Of Makati ICT Seminar 10.09.2014 This preparation guide is to prepare the attendees for the actual event and it is expected that the attendees have installed all the required Tools (ADK, MDT) and Windows 8.1 ISO is downloaded for the workshop.

Altaro Hyper-V Backup

I’ve recently installed Altaro and it’s quite easy to use, Main features in Altaro Hyper-V Backup  Hot Backups – MS VSS Integration – Back up live VMs with zero downtime by leveraging the Microsoft VSS Hyper-V Writer. Restore Clones – Restore VMs to the same Hyper-V Host but with a different name. Restore to different … Continue reading →

TechNet Virtual Lab: Deploying Windows 8.1 with ConfigMgr 2012 R2 and MDT 2013

Saw a post from Deployment Reseach   Access and learn: Windows 8.1 image with ConfigMgr 2012 R2 and MDT 2013. Link: http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9845756

Unblock BGInfo in MDT Task Sequence

Here how to unblock BGInfo.lnk that you put in the “C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp” folder during your LTI deployment. Create a simple PS1 file containing the CGI <file> | Unblock-file command line.  gci “C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp\Bginfo.lnk” | Unblock-file In your notepad, copy-paste the command line above and save it as a .ps1 file in the Scripts folder. In your task sequence … Continue reading →

MDT 2013 LAB: Sysprep and Capture task sequence fails

Problem: Sysprep and Capture task sequence fails when I was capturing Windows 2012 R2 Update. Workaround: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2797676 Go to the Scripts folder Distribution Share and go ahead edit LTIApply.wsf   Add the following below Copy bootmgr section: If not oFSO.FolderExists(sBootDrive & “\Boot”) then oFSO.CreateFolder(sBootDrive & “\Boot”) End if Save LTIApply.wsf and Update Deployment Share and run the Capture Task … Continue reading →