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Thu, Jan 17 2013 19:48

Starting virtual machines for WSUS

My test environment usually has a dozen or so machines at any one time. Some of these are short lived and used for a particular piece of testing – others are kept for  years. I decided that I wanted to keep up to date on the patching of these virtual...
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Wed, Dec 12 2012 20:20

Creating Virtual machines #1: Creating the VM

I’ve had two projects in mind for a while.  First I need to build a new WSUS server in my virtual environment & secondly I want to automate as much of the VM creation and configuration as possible. Oh – and I’m not using SC Virtual Machine Manager...
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Tue, Sep 11 2012 18:24

Finding the drive letter of a mounted VHD

In Windows 8/2012 you can mount a VHD into the file system. Is there a way to discover the drive letter of the mounted VHD function get-mountedvhdDrive { $disks = Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_DiskDrive | where Caption -eq "Microsoft Virtual Disk"...
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