Waclaw Chrabaszcz
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Server 2012

Shared resources and stopped services

A hypervisor is like a bank. It is offering inexistent CPU cycles and HDD I/Os up to 150% of real capacity. In normal situation VMs consumes about 20% of declared (maximum) RAM, CPU and disk IO, and business is running perfectly … until … Until everyone will come to bank and ask "I want my money back". Good example, short power outage or unexpected hypervisor reboot. Once the hypervisor will start it will try to power on all VM guests, and every of them will want "his money back". As a result we ......

How to install Windows Server 2008/2012 roles/features using PowerShell

Let's make it faster … A simple PowerShell script Import-Module Servermanager Add-WindowsFeature Application-Server,Hyper-V,WAS -norestart And of course shutdown –r at the end List of roles and features: Role/Service or Main Feature R/S/F Name Installatiom command DHCP Server DHCP Server DHCP Print Services Print Server Print-Services Internet Printing Print-Internet LPD Service Print-LPD-Service Terminal Services Terminal Services Terminal-Services Terminal Server TS-Terminal-Server TS Licensing ......

How to install .NET 3.5 on Windows Server 2012

Install it with DISM (run cmd.exe as admin), if the setup fails when you try to enable it under "add, remove features"

dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:NetFX3 /Source:d:\sources\sxs /LimitAccess

Replace D: with your DVD drive/USB thumb drive or virtual ISO drive.