Introduction Feel free to skip this introduction and jump down to the Updating via CIM section to see the actual update process.
Yesterday, I decided to connect up my Windows Server 2016 TP5 Active Directory lab up to the new Azure Server Management Tools. This was mainly to look at the experience with managing Nano Server using these new Azure based tools.
The interface is very slick, as you’d expect from anything managed within the new Azure Portal.
The xDFS DSC resource module has been officially released to the PowerShell Gallery thanks to the awesome review efforts of the Microsoft PowerShell Team. The cDFS DSC Resource has now been unlisted from the PowerShell Gallery. So now is the time to update any DSC configuration scripts to use xDFS.
Important: There were some minor changes to xDFS when it was converted from cDFS. For information on what you’ll need to change to convert to xDFS see my earlier post.
One of the new features introduced into Windows in build 10586 and above was the new NAT Virtual Switch. This feature was primarily introduced to ease the introduction of the Windows Containers in the upcoming release of Windows Server 2016.
In more recent builds of Windows (build 14295 and above) the NAT Virtual Switch has been removed in favor of a new Virtual NAT Device that exists separate from the Hyper-V Virtual Switch.
Just a Friday afternoon heads up - if you’re using the cDFS DSC Resource I created to manage Windows Server Distributed File System (Replication and Namespaces), it has now been accepted into the PowerShell Community resources and will be under the control of the PowerShell Team.
This means that the GitHub source code repository will be moving over to the PowerShell organization in the next few days. This also means that any future releases of this resource module won’t be provided by me as cDFS, but will be released by the PowerShell team as xDFS.
Happy TP5 day!
Here is just a quick snapshot of the package list for Nano Server in Windows Server 2016 TP5:
Right off the bat I notice a few new ones are included:
BootFromWim SecureStartup ShieldedVM I can guess at the purpose of these packages, but will be interested to learn a bit more about them. That is all I have time for as I now need to go and update the LabBuilder sample projects to use this new ISO.
