Now I’ll try to run WDS in Azure and see how many I can deploy

At the moment I’m in the middle of the boarding process, getting my machine up to speed, parking permits, phone numbers, access to internal systems and all that. But soon I’ll be at a meeting near you, or at a conference or user group. Have any SC-related questions? Email me at jonas (at) microsoft.com!

The Samsung Ativ S

The Nokia Lumia 920

Create a VHD on an SD-card (or USB, but that’ll stick out of your Slate (which I’m running)).

To create a VHD using diskpart follow these steps:

1. Insert your SD-card or USB and note the driveletter it receives. Substitute “C:” below with that letter.
2. Run CMD, start diskpart
3. create vdisk file=”C:\vdisks\mediadisk.vhd” maximum=16000 (Creates a VHD on C: with maximum size 16000 MBs)
4. attach vdisk (attaches it to your computer)
5. create partition primary (creates a primary partition)
6. assign letter=z (assigns the letter z to it)
7. format fs=ntfs quick (quick formats the VHD with NTFS)

Start Notepad and copy and paste the script below, save this script into “mount.bat” or something similar.

setlocal
set dpscript="%TEMP%dpscript.txt"
echo select vdisk file="w:\mediadisk.vhd" > %DiskPartScript%
echo attach vdisk >> %dpscript%
DiskPart /s %dpscript%
endlocal

To make sure your computer mounts your VHD automatically we’ll add the script to the startup scripts in the Local Group Policy Editor:

1. Start it by pressing Windows+R and typing gpedit.msc into the box.
2. Browse to Computer Configuration/Windows Settings/Scripts (Startup/Shutdown)
3. Doubleclick Startup
4. Browse to where you saved your script
5. Ok all the way out to the MMC
6. Reboot
7. If it worked your VHD shall now be mounted with a driveletter

To get some content into your applications you’ll need to create some folders in your VHD. I’ve named mine “Movies” and “Music”. Into these I’ve copied, you guessed it, movies and music.

These folders then need to be added into the libraries in Windows 8.

1. Do this by starting Explorer, browse to your directories, right click and choose “Include in library”.
2. Select the appropriate library.
3. To speed things up you can after this go into Windows Media Player to verify or rescan that your files are added.

Once they are, they’ll be included in the Movies and Music apps in Windows 8 too.

1. Fire up CMD with administrative rights.
2. Then you’ll just enter slmgr /ipk 12345-12345-12345-12345-12345<enter> Substitute 12345 with your key of course.
3. When it’s done, just enter slmgr /ato to activate Windows.

Boom! You’re done!

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A new beta of Windows Server 2012 Essentials is available at http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30327. Now with some upped specs, from 25 users to 75. Which actually makes it quite useful. And no need to reinstall either like the old SBS.

The Virtual Machine Servicing Tool is available in a new and fresh version too. If you’re using this to keep your VM’s up to date it’s time to upgrade. Find it over at http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30470.

Take a look at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mssmallbiz/archive/2012/07/27/large-collection-of-free-microsoft-ebooks-for-you-including-sharepoint-visual-studio-windows-phone-windows-8-office-365-office-2010-sql-server-2012-azure-and-more.aspx to see which books are available.

The whole suite is now better prepared to cooperate and you can automate lots of steps thanks to Orchestrator. This makes it easier for IT to deliver their services to the business in an automated and efficient way, previously only possible by using third party products and addons.

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Script:

import-module "C:\Program Files\Microsoft System Center 2012\Virtual Machine Manager\bin\psModules\virtualmachinemanager\virtualmachinemanager.psd1"
$vm = get-vm | where {$_.Cloud -match "LabNet01"}
Foreach ( $singleVM in $VM) { $Adapter = Get-VirtualNetworkAdapter -VM $singleVM set-VirtualNetworkAdapter -VirtualNetworkAdapter $Adapter -VirtualNetwork "LabNet01" }

If you have more clouds you’ll need one script per cloud, stuff to edit is name of cloud “{$_.Cloud -match “LabNet01″} ” and the name of the virtual network “VirtualNetwork “LabNet01″”. I’m running the scripts as scheduled tasks every 120 seconds, this means that a machine created in SCVMM will within two minutes be assigned the right network.

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