I am attempting to do some quick cleanup on a Hyper-V host used for testing.
To do this I compacted the Hyper-V Virtual Disks.
*note* you want to do this on dynamically expanding disk types
Talking a late walk around features of Windows Server 2012 R2. One of the features that interested me was the deduplicaiton feature. Naturally I want to run this on my Windows desktop. So my journey began.
Warning these steps and method are no way supported by Microsoft; use at your own risk.
To pull this off you need to acquire files from a Windows Server 2012 R2 installation.
Here is a list of the cab files:
Microsoft-Windows-Dedup-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~en-US~6.3.9600.16384.cab
Microsoft-Windows-Dedup-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~6.3.9600.16384.cab
Microsoft-Windows-FileServer-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~en-US~6.3.9600.16384.cab
Microsoft-Windows-FileServer-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~6.3.9600.16384.cab
Microsoft-Windows-VdsInterop-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~en-US~6.3.9600.16384.cab
Microsoft-Windows-VdsInterop-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~6.3.9600.16384.cab
Here is a link I am sharing out from MEGA that has them all archived.
Microsoft-Windows-Dedup-Package.zip (4.2 MB)
Steps to follow:
Place all files into a folder
Next open a command prompt running as administrator
Execute the following dism command:
dism /online /add-package /packagepath:Microsoft-Windows-VdsInterop-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~6.3.9600.16384.cab /packagepath:Microsoft-Windows-VdsInterop-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~en-US~6.3.9600.16384.cab /packagepath:Microsoft-Windows-FileServer-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~6.3.9600.16384.cab /packagepath:Microsoft-Windows-FileServer-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~en-US~6.3.9600.16384.cab /packagepath:Microsoft-Windows-Dedup-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~6.3.9600.16384.cab /packagepath:Microsoft-Windows-Dedup-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~en-US~6.3.9600.16384.cab
You can also run them one at time
dism /online /add-package /packagepath:Microsoft-Windows-VdsInterop-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~6.3.9600.16384.cab dism /online /add-package /packagepath:Microsoft-Windows-VdsInterop-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~en-US~6.3.9600.16384.cab dism /online /add-package /packagepath:Microsoft-Windows-FileServer-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~6.3.9600.16384.cab dism /online /add-package /packagepath:Microsoft-Windows-FileServer-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~en-US~6.3.9600.16384.cab dism /online /add-package /packagepath:Microsoft-Windows-Dedup-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~6.3.9600.16384.cab dism /online /add-package /packagepath:Microsoft-Windows-Dedup-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~en-US~6.3.9600.16384.cab
Once all have completed successfully you need to issue the following command to enable the feature
dism /online /enable-feature /featurename:Dedup-Core /all
This can also be done via the “Turn Windows features on or off” under Program and Features
At this point the feature is installed and enable and you only need to specify what volumes you would like to deduplicate.
Supporting Sources and Thanks: Wei King , Bernard Khoo
To list the updates that have been installed on a Windows 8.1 or Windows 2012 Server simply issue the following command in a command prompt window
wmic qfe get hotfixid
That’s it
After my install of Windows Server 2012 R2 Server Core, I wanted to manage the system via RSAT and Remote Desktop. However the firewall was preventing me from completing such tasks. That said, this is how we can disable the firewall
From the command prompt type the following command:
netsh advfirewall set allprofiles state off
After installing Windows Server 2012 R2 Server Core as a guest in my VMware Lab I wanted install the VMware software tools that enhances the performance of the guest operating system and improves management of the virtual machine.
To do this I logged into the console via the vCenter Client were I could access the server core console
From the vCenter Console to the following:
Here is some additional switches you can attempt
Usage: /? : Show this dialog. /a : Perform an administrative install. /a <full path to existing administrative install> : Patch an existing administrative install. /s : Hide initialization dialog. For silent mode use /s /v/qn. /v : Parameters to pass to installer /c : Clean out installation registration information /l : Perform a detailed logging. /l <fullpath to log file> : Perform a detailed logging.
