{"id":12298,"date":"2012-04-03T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T07:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=12298"},"modified":"2012-04-03T08:15:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T07:15:00","slug":"deploy-pre-configured-windows-server-8-hyper-v-vms-from-a-template-vhd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=12298","title":{"rendered":"Deploy Pre-Configured Windows Server 8 Hyper-V VMs From A Template VHD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Windows Server 8 Hyper-V is giving me so many more cool options.&#160; I wanted to deploy a new VM that would be a DC, DNS, and DHCP server.&#160; I copied my template VHD, and created a VM.&#160; Before powering up, I fired up Server Manager in Windows Server 8 and decided to add roles\/features.&#160; I added the DC, DNS, and DHCP roles <em>to the VHD<\/em>.&#160; Then I powered up the VM.&#160; The roles were pre-installed, and all I had to do was DCPROMO (now done in Server Manager) and configure the DHCP service.&#160; Nice!<\/p>\n<p>I haven\u2019t checked but I guess I can automate this using Server Manager PowerShell cmdlets.&#160; Yet more options!&#160; Loving it!<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:a5d8a82d-d2bc-4e17-b6f1-b948f7c7979d\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Windows+Server+8\" rel=\"tag\">Windows Server 8<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Hyper-V\" rel=\"tag\">Hyper-V<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Virtualisation\" rel=\"tag\">Virtualisation<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Deployment\" rel=\"tag\">Deployment<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows Server 8 Hyper-V is giving me so many more cool options.&#160; I wanted to deploy a new VM that would be a DC, DNS, and DHCP server.&#160; I copied my template VHD, and created a VM.&#160; Before powering up, I fired up Server Manager in Windows Server 8 and decided to add roles\/features.&#160; I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=12298\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Deploy Pre-Configured Windows Server 8 Hyper-V VMs From A Template VHD&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[174,181,195,119],"class_list":["post-12298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hyper-v","tag-deployment","tag-hyper-v","tag-virtualisation","tag-windows-server-8"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}