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Windows Server 2012 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook

You're reading from   Windows Server 2012 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook If you work on a daily basis with Windows Server 2012, this book will make life easier by teaching you the skills to automate server tasks with PowerShell scripts, all delivered in recipe form for rapid implementation.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849689465
Length 372 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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EDRICK GOAD EDRICK GOAD
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Windows Server 2012 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Understanding PowerShell Scripting 2. Managing Windows Network Services with PowerShell FREE CHAPTER 3. Managing IIS with PowerShell 4. Managing Hyper-V with PowerShell 5. Managing Storage with PowerShell 6. Managing Network Shares with PowerShell 7. Managing Windows Updates with PowerShell 8. Managing Printers with PowerShell 9. Troubleshooting Servers with PowerShell 10. Managing Performance with PowerShell 11. Inventorying Servers with PowerShell 12. Server Backup Index

Quickly deploying VMs using a template


Creating new virtual machines in Hyper-V is a relatively simple and automatable process, however the installation of an operating system on the VM can still take an extended period of time. Existing automated deployment tools help in the installation process, but most are slow and can be improved in a virtual environment.

Getting ready

In this recipe we will be using a VM with a basic installation of Server 2012 named Server2012_template:

  1. Create a new VM using the steps in the Creating virtual machines recipe.

  2. Install the Windows operating system on the new VM.

  3. Execute C:\Windows\System32\Sysprep\Sysprep.exe.

  4. Select Enter System Out-of-Box Experience (OOBE), Generalize, and Shutdown:

  5. Click on OK to reconfigure and switch off the VM.

How to do it...

Complete the following steps to deploy a VM from the template:

  1. Open PowerShell and create the new VHDx file:

    New-VHD -ComputerName HV01 `
    -ParentPath 'E:\vm\Virtual Hard Disks\Server8_template.vhdx' `
    -Path 'E:\vm\Virtual...
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