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Working in the Datacenter–Enable Virtual TPM in Hyper-V gives you the ability to test bitlocker in a VM

Posted by Mikael Nystrom on January 26, 2016

Last night a friend contaced me and said “-Did you ever post the vTPM thing?”, i did say yes, but i was wrong, so here it is…

Simple, without testing and verfication, a deployment solution will fail. One of the tasks that takes a lot of time to test and verify is BitLocker and that also includes TPM. Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 gives you the ability to create Virtuial Machines with a Virtual TPM Chip 2.0.

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A VM running Windows Server 2012 R2 with a vTPM chip, The VM is running on Windows Server 2016.

The How-To Part

You need to run Windows Server 2016 TP4 or Windows 10.

On the host, add Isolated UserMode, Hyper-V and Hostguardian Services, by running the following powershell command(elevated):

Add-WindowsFeature -Name “Isolated-UserMode”,”Hyper-V”,”HostGuardian” -IncludeAllSubFeature –IncludeManagementTools

If needed, restart the host.

Before you can enable the vTPM you need to have a Guardian Service guardian object and with that you can crerate a Key Protector.

New-HgsGuardian -Name ‘Guardian’ -GenerateCertificates
$Owner = Get-HgsGuardian -Name ‘Guardian’
$KeyProtector = New-HgsKeyProtector -Guardian $Owner -Owner $Owner –AllowUntrustedRoot

Great, the last piece is to enable the vTPM

Set-VMKeyProtector -VMName ‘WSUS01’ -KeyProtector $KeyProtector.RawData
Enable-VMTPM -VMName ‘WSUS01’

/Mike

Posted in Deployment, Hyper-V, OSD, Windows 10, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server vNext | Tagged: , , , , , | 6 Comments »

Working in a Datacenter – Nested Hyper-V or Running Hyper-V in Hyper-V

Posted by Mikael Nystrom on November 21, 2015

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There are many reason where it make sense to run Hyper-V in Hyper-V, one of them being to enable Credential Guard (VSM) in Windows Server 2016 TP 4 and later. For training, demos, test. R&D it is great. For Windows Server 2016 TP4 it needs to be enable and configured to work and that means PowerShell. Currently there are also some limitations.

On the Host:

Device Guard Disable
Credential Guard Disable
Hyper-V Enabled
Hardware Intel VT-x
Windows Version Build 10565 or greater

 

In the VM:

Dynamic Memory No
Change memory while VM is running No
Using any kind of Checkpoint No
Live Migration No
Save/Resume No

 

You can read the fine print here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/hyperv_on_windows/user_guide/nesting

The PowerShell Function/Script:

This script will enable Nested Hyper-V an a VM
Invoke-WebRequest "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DeploymentBunny/Files/master/Tools/Enable-NestedHyperV/EnableNestedHyperV.ps1" -OutFile ~/EnableNestedHyperV.ps1
Import-Module ~/EnableNestedHyperV.ps1
Enable-NestedHyperV -VMname TEST100
This Script (Provided be Microsoft) will verify configuration
Invoke-WebRequest "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Microsoft/Virtualization-Documentation/master/hyperv-tools/Nested/Get-NestedVirtStatus.ps1" -OutFile ~/Get-NestedVirtStatus.ps1
~/Get-NestedVirtStatus.ps1

/mike

Posted in Datacenter, Hyper-V, Windows 10, Windows Server, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server vNext | Tagged: , , , , | 1 Comment »

Speaking at SCUG.no – 2015-06-05

Posted by Mikael Nystrom on May 10, 2015

I’m proud to announcing that I will be one of the speakers at SCUG.no

My session is at 13:30 to 14:30 and will 100% focusing on Windows Server 2016 in the Modern Datacenter!

Session 4: “Windows Server vNext in the Modern Datacenter”

Windows Server has changed over the last few years, it has now become the main engine regarding Software Defined Compute, Storage and Network. In the demo intense session you will learn how to design, build and take advantage over the new features in Windows Server vNext.
(Speaker: Mikael Nystrom, MVP)

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For more information http://www.scug.no/events/system-center-user-group-meeting-june-2015/

/Mike

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Windows Server vNext – Hyper-V in Hyper-V

Posted by Mikael Nystrom on May 1, 2015

Yes, it is true

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Continue reading the story at the source for much more information!!!

http://www.hyper-v.nu/archives/hvredevoort/2015/05/nested-hypervisor-in-windows-server-vnext/

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Speaker at Windows Management User Group Netherlands (WMUG NL) on 2015-05-13

Posted by Mikael Nystrom on May 1, 2015

I’m proud to be invited to speak at WMUG in May. This time my session is all about Windows Server vNext. The Session will be in English, mostly because my Dutch is not really that good, in fact its horrible…

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To sign up:

http://wmug.nl/2015/05/01/wmug-webinar-3-13-05-2015-windows-server-vnext-get-ready-hosted-by-mikael-nystrm-microsoft-mvp-and-principal-architect-at-truesec/

/mike

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Nice to Know–Deploying Windows Server Technical Preview on HP Proliant Microserver Gen 8

Posted by Mikael Nystrom on October 11, 2014

I use the HP Microserver Gen 8’s at home, since they are quiet and act as a full-grown server with full iLO support, dual network adapters and then some. I can basically do all kinds of testing with new operating systems and system center management platforms without upsetting my family to much and that is very practical.

During the deployment of Windows Server Technical Preview everything worked as expected. After the installation I added the Hyper-V role to start testing to deploy VM’s. I booted up the MDT Boot image, selected the Task Sequence and the install was working great, but hey, the network performance???

According to ImageX it will take 45 minutes to lay down the image! That cannot be correct, there is something wrong here. That kind of slow performance over the network just have to be an issue.. and it is…

You need to update the network driver for the built-in network adapters in HP Proliant Microserver Gen 8.

The built in driver is a Broadcom Nextreme driver and that does not work correctly with Hyper-V

Download the HP Ethernet 1 GB 2-port 332i Adapter driver from HP and install that instead, the 45 minutes is now just 5 minutes…

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Happy Deployment.
/mike

Posted in Drivers, HP, Hyper-V, Windows Server vNext | Tagged: , , , | 2 Comments »

PowerShell is King – vNext Hyper-V gets support for Network Device Naming

Posted by Mikael Nystrom on October 4, 2014

And that my friends is GREAT. Basically that means you can create a a VM Network Adapter in Hyper-V while the VM is running (also a new feature), give it a name and enable Device Naming on the VM Network Adapter and then inside the VM find the Network Adapter using PowerShell and configure it without using the Mac Address as the identification.

Create the Network Adapter:

  • Create the NIC while the VM is running (just for the fun of it) using PowerShell
    • Add-VMNetworkAdapter -VMName SRV101 -SwitchName UplinkSwitch -Name MikesNIC01 -Verbose
  • Enable Device Naming
    • Set-VMNetworkAdapter -VMName SRV101 -Name MikesNIC01 -DeviceNaming On -Verbose
  • Verify Device Naming using PowerShell, or Settings, or directly in the Hyper-V Manager
    • Get-VMNetworkAdapter -VMName SRV101 | Format-List Name, DeviceNaming

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Log in to the VM:

Using PowerShell you can now get the network adapter name in the VM with the name gave network adapter in the parent partition.

  • Get-NetAdapterAdvancedProperty -Name * | Where-Object -FilterScript {$_.DisplayValue -LIKE “Mike*”}

You can also see this as properties in the Network Adapter.

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Summary:

This gives us an easier way to automate the creation/configuration of VMs when it comes to handing over a task from the host to a VM when building solutions.

/mike

Posted in Hyper-V, PowerShell, Windows Server vNext | Tagged: , , | 1 Comment »

Nice to Know about vNext – Windows Update will take care of Integration Services, no more vmguest.iso

Posted by Mikael Nystrom on October 3, 2014

For various reasons this has been a major “challenge”, and it seems that someone listen to the right other one.

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Thank youi, thank you.

Need more news?

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn765471.aspx#BKMK_IS

/mike

Posted in Windows Server vNext | Tagged: | 2 Comments »

Windows Server vNext – If you are in to Windows Server you should read this

Posted by Mikael Nystrom on September 30, 2014

Today Microsoft started to talk about Windows 10, but also the Server and System Center stuff. Want to know more?

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/mike

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