After 13 years of working IT I finally took a Microsoft cert exam. I took the 70-410 (installing and configuring windows server 2012) today and passed with 984/1000. I heard they are easy when they first come out, which I thought it was. So if you have a hankering go do it. I did this […]
Read More →Archive for January, 2013
Remove unwanted features in Windows Server 2012
Here is my horribly long powershell command to remove a bunch of unwanted features from Windows Server 2012. This saved 1.8GB of disk space. Why is under 2GB of disk space signifcant in today’s world? Well, without talking about SSDs multiply that by a 100 VHDs and you save 180GB. That’s significant on expensive SAN […]
Read More →The big list of Windows Features in Server 2012
In an effort to create a tiny sysprepped Windows 2012 VHD I wanted to uninstall all the roles I know I won’t be using. (And even if I do need them they are easy to put back.) Tiny VHD’s equal less disk space and much faster VM builds. First thing I wanted was a simple […]
Read More →System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager error (0x8033803b)
Getting this error when trying to refresh a host in system center 2012 virtual machine manager? Error (2927) A Hardware Management error has occurred trying to contact server meh.local :a:DestinationUnreachable :The WS-Management service cannot process the request. The service cannot find the resource identified by the resource URI and selectors. . Unknown error (0x8033803b) Recommended […]
Read More →