February 19th, 2017 by Charlie Russel and tagged Hyper-V, MAC Address Spoofing, Nested Hyper-V, Network Virtualization, Networking, PowerShell
As I was trying to configure a new lab setup that takes advantage of nested Hyper-V so that I can build a lab to do Hyper-V host clustering, I ran into a problem with networking. Everything looked good on the “host1” virtual machine, but the domain controller I created for TreyResearch.net that runs as a […]
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February 17th, 2017 by Charlie Russel
Creating VMs with New-myVM.ps1 – Part 2 So, as I showed in the previous post, I’ve got my new VM built, but it’s not really ready for use yet. For one thing, it needs a DVD attached and the boot order set, plus I want to add a second NIC, and change the number of […]
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February 16th, 2017 by Charlie Russel and tagged Hyper-V, PowerShell v5.1, Windows 10, Windows Server 2016
Creating VMs with New-myVM.ps1 – Part 1 As we saw in Part 1 of this series, I build my labs almost entirely with Windows PowerShell scripts. In that first post, I showed how to set the MAC address range on a Hyper-V host. I use this MAC address range to explicitly set my lab VMs […]
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February 15th, 2017 by Charlie Russel and tagged Active Directory, AD DS, DHCP, Networking, PowerShell, Server core
As I mentioned last time, I’m setting up a new domain controller and DHCP server for my internal domain on Windows Server 2016 Core, and I’m exclusively using PowerShell to do it. For both the DHCP Server and AD DS roles, we need to configure a fixed IP address on the server, so let’s do […]
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February 14th, 2017 by Charlie Russel and tagged PowerShell v5.1, Server core, Windows Server 2016
I know I owe you more on creating a lab with PowerShell, and I’ll get to that in a few days. But having just set up a new domain controller running Server 2016 Core, I thought I’d include a couple of tricks I worked through to make your life a little easier if you choose […]
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