Upgrade to Windows Server 2016 TP5 – Live migrate from TP4

So the day have come when finally the new TP5 bits have been released! And I of course downloaded and wanted to test to upgrade one of my hyper-v servers in my home lab.

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Once installed I tried to migrate a VM from the hyper-v manager at the new TP5 node, I had of course set up kerberos and delegation before but still it gave me an error. To see if it was just in the GUI or also in PowerShell I tried the same move and got the same issue

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So powershell remoting to the rescue to test that I could live migrate my VM´s from the TP4 to the TP5 and that worked nicely. I will dig some more into if there is an issue with the AD objects or what causes this and do an update if I find anything…

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happy testing!

 

Add Chocolatey to my PackageManagement in Windows 10

I wanted to install the different browsers and also ChefDK on an new Windows 10 client and that with PowerShell. There is of course a way to just run Chocolatey command line but I wanted to use the PackageManagement so I had to add that provider and source so I could just use the Install-Package cmdlet.

I have a Windows 10 1511 with latest patches and I run the following commands to enable the chocolatey repository:

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As you can see, when I enter Find-PackageProvider I find the Chocolatey provider and just run the Install-PackageProvider -Name Chocolatey

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Then I need to open a new PowerShell window and can see that the PackageProvider and PackageSource have the Chocolatey records and thus I can now add software from this,

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First I add Firefox and as you can see my PackageSource is not trusted and I get an warning, that can be configured with the Set-PackageSource -Name chocolatey -Trusted

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Have fun with your package management 🙂

Preview of Azure Site Recovery in the new Azure Portal

Finally the Azure Site Recovery service can be reached from the new Azure Portal and the ARM way of doing things! It has been possible to use ASR with PowerShell and the new ARM way for some months but only for a subset of the site recovery services (VMM/Hyper-V).

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Not a day to soon! I have a customer that we have engaged in the CSP program and as that is based on the new, the old ASR was not possible to use with that subscription and use another subscription just for ASR sucks..

As you can see on the following screendump I go into the “Getting Started” to select scenario and then follow the guide to complete and in the case with physical and VMware I need to install a process/configuration server on-premise.

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Once installed on a Windows 2012 R2 server I connect it to the ASR with the registration file,

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One thing to think about using this service is that the process server will if you do not go in and configure the bandwidth settings eat all available internet capacity as my customer so nicely explained…

Configure this to something that works for both you and the company, and with the enhanced ASR where you do not need additional servers in Azure you find this setting in the backup properties.

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It is quite easy to start and protecting your workloads and remember that the first 30 days are free 🙂