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In July 2008, SWUG invited Edwin Sarmiento, MVP, to teach us on Windows PowerShell.

Here's his presentation for your download.

/Dennis

Original Post Here:
http://blogs.technet.com/keithcombs/archive/2008/07/22/windows-powershell-excellent-screencast-now-available.aspx

 

Jeff Alexander is perfecting the art of screencasting and his latest adventure with Windows PowerShell is certainly well worth watching.  He stole my intro but it’s all good matey.  I think in return he needs to tell us where he snagged that cool spinning globe on his desktop.

So what is PowerShell you ask?

I would imagine a lot of you have at least heard of PowerShell.  If you aren’t a developer you’ve probably steered clear of it simply because it looks like complex code.  Fear not, it isn’t that complex.  Here’s the description from microsoft.com:

Microsoft Windows PowerShell command line shell and scripting language helps IT professionals achieve greater control and productivity. Using a new admin-focused scripting language, more than 130 standard command line tools, and consistent syntax and utilities, Windows PowerShell allows IT professionals to more easily control system administration and accelerate automation. Windows PowerShell is easy to adopt, learn, and use, because it works with your existing IT infrastructure and existing script investments, and because it runs on Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows Server 2003. Windows PowerShell is now included as part of Windows Server 2008. Exchange Server 2007, System Center Operations Manager 2007, System Center Data Protection Manager V2, and System Center Virtual Machine Manager also leverage Windows PowerShell to improve administrator control, efficiency, and productivity.

 

Here’s the 20 minute screencast video Jeff created.  Jeff demonstrates some really cool tools so stick with him through the entire video. Double click the small window below while playing and it will go full screen.  If you want to download the video and watch it offline, right mouse click this link and SAVE AS to your local disk.

For more information on PowerShell, see the website at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/management/powershell/default.mspx.

See the TechNet Script Center at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/hubs/msh.mspx.

Get PowerShell version 2 (CTP) @ http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=7C8051C2-9BFC-4C81-859D-0864979FA403&displaylang=en.

/Dennis

Together with Matty, we are doing a series of informative, simple and fun videos on Windows Server 2008.
This is a mirror post.

Welcome to the first edition of ANWYCDFYSBWYSCDFY (Ask not what you can do for your server but what your server can do for you).

Yes Ill admit its a terrible title, but the intent behind these videos is to quickly show you what can be achieved with Windows Server 2008 and its various features. They videos themselves aim to be informative and fun, so we hope you feel the same way when you watch it too!

Please leave comments and let me know if these are beneficial/fun for your to see. ;-)

/Dennis

I cranked up my machine and ended up doing this blog post with a sceencast.

Let's get into the subject proper. We have been looking at Server Core operations in the past videos. Now it would be good to have Server Core running as a Domain Controller. It is designed for handling that role. If you have also been reading about Windows Server 2008, there is a new type of Domain Controller, known as Read-Only Domain controller aka RODC. Now this is the perfect combination. Server Core + Active Directory (Read Only). Perfect combination for having a domain controller do its work, but yet provide security to Active Directory such that physical security of that Read Only Domain Controller in the Branch Office is not possible.

It can be quite a challenge to install a DC into Server Core if you do not get any guidance or help. So here, i want to help you know how to install it. In the video, I used an answer file. To make it easy, you can copy and past the following;

[DCInstall]
InstallDNS=Yes
ConfirmGC=Yes
RebootOnCompletion=Yes
ReplicaDomainDNSName=insiders.com
ReplicaOrNewDomain=replica or readonlyreplica
ReplicationSourceDC=dc1.insiders.com
SafeModeAdminPassword=P@ssw0rd
UserDomain=insiders.com
UserName=administrator
Password=P@ssw0rd
CreateDNSDelegation=No

Save it as a unattend.txt file and then fire off the command "dcpromo /unattend:unattend.txt" in Server Core Watch the Video for more explanation. Yawn, time to sleep.. ;-)

 
Video: DCPromo a Server Core as DC in existing Domain

 

/Dennis