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Foreclosure is far from the worst thing that could ever happen to you. If your home ends up in foreclosure, chances are there are lots of things you should thank your lucky stars for: your family, your health and your good looks. Foreclosure doesn't mean you are irresponsible or not deserving of prosperity. It can be the result of an unwise decision, bad timing or unfortunate life events. Nevertheless, foreclosure and its first cousins, missed mortgage payments and short sales, do have credit, legal and tax consequences. Here are the consequences of each:
Missed Payments
- Other than your lender's late fee, there are no credit or other consequences of a mortgage payment being late until it is 30 days late.
- One 30-day late mortgage payment can drop your FICO credit score from 50 to 100 points.
- If you resume paying mortgage payments after missing one payment (without making a catch-up arrangement with your lender) that one late payment will become a "rolling late," reported as first 30 days late, then 60 days late, and so on.
- Most mortgage lenders will not make a mortgage or refinance to a borrower with more than one 30-day late mortgage payment on their credit report within the 12 months preceding the application for credit. All lenders will charge you a higher interest rate and impose tougher terms if you have any "mortgage lates" on your credit report.
- Late mortgage payments will be reflected on your credit report for seven years, but the negative impact on your FICO score will decrease as the late payment recedes into the past.
Short Sale
- When you sell your home for less than you owe on it, and your lender writes off the debt, your FICO score will drop between 80 to 100 points.
- It will take approximately 18 months of consistent, on-time credit payments to restore your credit score to a level where you will be able to get a new mortgage with good interest rates and terms.
- Legally, mortgage and lien-holders must agree to extinguish their debts for the short sale to proceed; they cannot sue the homeowner to recover the shortfall.
- Until December 2007, homeowners of properties sold through short sale were charged with taxable income for every dollar of debt forgiven through the short sale. Under the Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act of 2007, though, mortgage lenders will not charge owners of foreclosed homes with taxable debt relief/income through the end of 2009.
- If you bought your home less than two years ago or purchased your property using tax-deferred capital gains in the course of a 1031 exchange, there might be capital gains tax implications of your short sale. Consult with your CPA in either of these situations.
Foreclosure and Deed in Lieu of Foreclosure
- If your home is lost to foreclosure or you give it back to the lender via a deed in lieu of foreclosure, your credit score will go down by 250 to 280 points.
- It will take about three years of consistent, on-time credit payments to restore your credit score to a level where you will be able to get a new mortgage with good interest rates and terms.
- Even if your lender is entitled to come after you for the difference between the market value of your home at the time of foreclosure and what you owe on the home, they almost never do.
- Tax-wise, mortgage debt relieved through foreclosure used to be potentially taxable as income, depending on the mortgage. Under the Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act of 2007, mortgage lenders will not charge owners of foreclosed homes with taxable debt relief/income through the end of 2009.
- If you bought your home less than two years ago or purchased your property using tax-deferred capital gains in the course of a 1031 exchange, there might be capital gains tax implications of your short sale. Consult with a CPA if you are considering a short sale in either of these situations.
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Misuses and Misconceptions of Foreclosure
Foreclosure is a process, not a thing. These are the biggest misconceptions you need to know that can help you prevent actual home foreclosure.
The Stages and Phases of the Foreclosure Process
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The core of any VDI deployment is the Virtual Desktop Template (VDT) which is the blueprint from which all the virtual desktop VMs are created. It occurred to me that there must be a way to create and maintain this using the deployment tools used to create real desktops rather than the way I hack the Windows 8.1 Enterprise Evaluation iso currently with this PowerShell ..
$VMName = "RDS-VDITemplate"$VMSwitch = "RDS-Switch"$WorkingDir = "E:\Temp VM Store\"$VMPath = $WorkingDir + $VMName$SysPrepVHDX = $WorkingDir + $VMName +"\RDS-VDITemplate.VHDX"
# Create the VHD from the Installation iso using the Microsoft Convert windows image scriptmd $VMPath cd ($WorkingDir + "resources").\Convert-WindowsImage.ps1 -SourcePath ($WorkingDir +"Resources\9600.16384.WINBLUE_RTM.130821-1623_X64FRE_ENTERPRISE_EVAL_EN-US-IRM_CENA_X64FREE_EN-US_DV5.ISO") -Size 100GB -VHDFormat VHDX -VHD $SysPrepVHDX -Edition "Enterprise"#Create the VM itselfNew-VM –Name $VMName –VHDPath $SysPrepVHDX -SwitchName $VMSwitch -Path $VMPath -Generation 1 -BootDevice IDE
# Tune these setting as you need toSet-VM -Name $VMName –MemoryStartupBytes 1024MbSet-VM -Name $VMName -DynamicMemorySet-VM -Name $VMName -MemoryMinimumBytes 512MbSet-VM -Name $VMName -AutomaticStartAction StartIfRunningSet-Vm -Name $VMName -AutomaticStopAction ShutDownSet-Vm -Name $VMName -ProcessorCount 2
So how does a deployment guy like Simon create Windows8.1 desktops - he uses the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2013 (MDT) and the Windows Assessment and Deployment Toolkit 8.1 (ADK) that it's based on. So I created another VM RDS-Ops with these tools on and started to learn how to do deployment. I know that when I create a collection with the wizard or with PowerShell (e.g. New-VirtualDesktopCollection) I can specify an unattend.xml file to use as part of the process. The ADK allows you to do this directly but I am going to build a better mousetrap in MDT and because I want to go on to deploy Group Policy Packs, updates and applications which I know I can do in MDT as well.
If you have used MDT please look away now as this isn't may day job,.However there doesn't seem to be any posts or articles on creating a VDT from either ADK, MDT or even System Center Configuration Manager so I am going to try and fill that gap here
I wanted to install MDT onto a VM running Windows Server 2012R2 with 2x VHDXs the second one being for my deployment share so I could deduplicate the iso and wim files that will be stored here. I then installed the ADK which needs to be done twice - the initial ADK download is only tiny because it pulls the rest of the installation files as part of the setup so I first ran adksetup /layout <Path> on an internet connected laptop and then copied the install across to the VM (along with MDT) and then ran..
adksetup.exe /quiet /installpath <the path specified in the layout option> /features OptionId.DeploymentTools OptionId.WindowsPreinstallationEnvironment OptionId.UserStateMigrationTool'
before installing MDT with:
MicrosoftDeploymentToolkit2013_x64.msi /Quiet.
Now I am ready to start to learn or demo MDT to build my template based on the Quick Start Guide for Lite Touch Installation included in the MDT documentation. which goes like this:
However I deviated from this in two ways:
1. Creating the Reference Computer:
All I needed to do here was to create a VM (RDS-Ref) based on the iso created by the deployment share update process..
$VMName = "RDS-Ref"$VMSwitch = "RDS-Switch"$WorkingDir = "E:\Temp VM Store\"$VMPath = $WorkingDir + $VMName$VHDXPath = $WorkingDir + $VMName +"\" + $VMName +".VHDX"
# Housekeeping 1. delete the VM from Hyper-V $vmlist = get-vm | where vmname -in $vmname $vmlist | where state -eq "saved" | Remove-VM -Verbose -Force $vmlist | where state -eq "off" | Remove-VM -Verbose -Force $vmlist | where state -eq "running" | stop-vm -verbose -force -Passthru | Remove-VM -verbose -force #House keeping 2. get back the storage If (Test-Path $VMPath) {Remove-Item $VMPath -Recurse}# Create a new VHDmd $VMPath new-VHD -Path $VHDXPath -Dynamic -SizeBytes 30Gb
#Create the VM itselfNew-VM –Name $VMName –VHDPath $VHDXPath -SwitchName $VMSwitch -Path $VMPath -Generation 1
#Attach iso in the deployment share to build the Reference Computer from the MDT VM (RDS-OPs)Set-VMDvdDrive -VMName $VMName -Path '\\rds-ops\DeploymentShare$\Boot\LiteTouchPE_x64.iso'Start-VM -Name $VMname
Once this VM comes out of sysprep it will launch the Deployment Wizard on the Reference Computer. I designed the script to be run again and again until I get it right which was good because I kept making mistakes as I refined it. The documentation is pretty good but I also referred to the excellent posts by Mitch Tulloch on MDT especially part 7 on automating Lite Touch by editing the INI files scenario above on the Deployment Share properties described below.
2. Completing the Deployment Wizard on the Reference Computer
In the Lite Touch scenario the Reference Computer is captured back into MDT and used to deploy to target computers usually by using the Windows Deployment Services role in Windows Server directly or via Configuration Manager. In VDI the target computers are VMs and their deployment is handled by the RDS Broker either in Server Manager or with the Remote Desktop Powershell commands like New-VirtualDesktopCollection. Whichever way I create VDI collections all I need is that virtual desktop template and in this case that's just the Reference Computer but it needs to be turned off and in a sysprepped state. The good news is that the Deployment Wizard in MDT 2013 has exactly this option so I can select that and when it's complete all I need to do is to remember to eject the iso with the Lite Touch pre execution installation on (or that will be inherited by all the virtual desktops!).
If you are with me so far you can see we have the makings of something quite useful even in production. What I need to do now is automate this so that my Reference Computer will start install and configure the OS based on my Deployment Share and then sysprep and shutdwon without any user intervention. To do that I need to modify the bootstrap.ini file that launches the deployment wizard (from the Deployment Share properties go to the rules tab and select edit Bootsrap.ini)..
[Settings] Priority=Default [Default] DeployRoot=\\RDS-OPS\DeploymentShare$ UserID=Administrator UserDomain=CONTOSO UserPassword=Passw0rd KeyboardLocale=en-GB SkipBDDWelcome=YES.
to tell the wizard where my deployment share is and how to connect to it, and then suppress the welcome screen. Then I need to modify the rules themselves (Control Setting.ini) so that the wizard uses my task sequence, hides all the settings screens and supplies the answers to those setting directly..
[Settings] Priority=Default Properties=MyCustomProperty [Default] DeploymentType=NEWCOMPUTER OSInstall=YES SkipAdminPassword=YES SkipProductKey=YES SkipComputerBackup=YES SkipBitLocker=YES EventService=http://RDS-Ops:9800 SkipBDDWelcome=YES SkipTaskSequence=YES TaskSequenceID=Win81Ref SkipCapture=YES DoCapture=SYSPREP FinishAction=SHUTDOWN SkipComputerName=YES SkipDomainMembership=YES SkipLocaleSelection=YES KeyboardLocale=en-US UserLocale=en-US UILanguage=en-US SkipPackageDisplay=YES SkipSummary=YES SkipFinalSummary=YES SkipTimeZone=YES TimeZoneName=Central Standard Time SkipUserData=Yes
Note the bits of this in bold;
So what's really useful here is that when I change my deployment share to add in applications and packages, modify my Task Sequence or the INI settings above, all I need to do to test the result each time is to recreate the Reference Computer like this:
Having got that working I can now turn my attention to deploy applications (both classic and modern) into my VDI collections, and then think about an automated patching process.
I realised I need to recreate a Domain Controller in my labs and in so doing I noticed a snag in my earlier scripts that really breaks when I use the same snippet for a new DC. I have this test to see if a VM is ready to be used..
do {Start-sleep –seconds 10}
until(Get-VMIntegrationService $VMName | where name -eq "Heartbeat").PrimaryStatusDescription -eq "OK")
#the code to create the $localcred credential is at the end of this post
It does work in that this will return true if the VM is on, but if a VM is coming out of sysprep this do until loop will exit way before I can log in and actually use the VM. So then I tried this command in my until clause ..
Invoke-Command –command 192.168.10.1 {dir c:\} –ErrorAction SilentlyContinue –Credential $LocalCred
a crude but effective test based on whether I could connect to and run a simple command on the VM.That worked for most of my VMs, but this was still no good for my script to build a Domain Controller (DC). The problem here is that after I add in the feature (which doesn't require a reboot)..
Install-WindowsFeature -name AD-Domain-Services –IncludeManagementTools
and then create the Domain with..
Install-ADDSForest –DomainName Contoso.com –safemodeadministratorpassword (cofor thisnverttosecurestring "Passw0rd" –asplaintext –force) –force
this will at some point cause a reboot but this doesn't happen inline as this command is itself calling PowerShell in a session I can't control. The result is that my script will continue to execute while this is going on in the background. So my test for a C Drive could work before the reboot and I would be in a mess because some subsequent commands would fail while my VM reboots. So my hack for this is to trap the time my VM takes to come out of sysprep..
$Uptime = (Get-VM –Name $VMName).uptime.totalseconds
and test when the current uptime is LESS than $Uptime which can only be true after the VM has rebooted.
until(Get-VM –Name $VMName).uptime.totalseconds –lt $Uptime)
Then I can test to see if the VM is ready to be configured by checking the Active Directory Web Service is alive on my new DC..
Get-Service –Name ADWS | where status –EQ running
However even after this test returned true I was still getting errors from PowerShell saying that a default domain controller couldn't be found so I specified the DC with a –server switch in each command for example ..
New-ADOrganizationalUnit -Description:"RDS VDI Collection VMs" -Name:"RDS-VDI" -Path:"DC=Contoso,DC=com" -ProtectedFromAccidentalDeletion:$true -Server:"RDS-DC.Contoso.com" Just to be extra sure I also slapped in a 20 second wait to ensure the service really was there as I want this to run cleanly again and again.
I won't bore you with the code for adding the rest of the users, groups etc. to Active Directory as the easiest way to write that is to do something to a Domain controller in the Active Directory Administrative Centre and grab the stuff you need from the PowerShell History at the bottom of the console..
I also showed you how to read and write to text based CSV files in part 5 of this Lab Ops Series so you could amend my script to have a whole list of objects to add in to your DC from a CSV file that you have previously lifted from a production DC.
I also need a DHCP server in my lab and I typically put that as a role on MY DC. Here again you can see how PowerShell has improved for newbies like me..
#Install the DHCP Role Add-WindowsFeature -Name "DHCP" -IncludeManagementTools -IncludeAllSubFeature #Authorize this DHCP server in AD Add-DhcpServerInDC -DnsName contoso.com #Setup a scope for use with RDS/VDI later on Add-DhcpServerv4Scope -StartRange 192.168.10.200 -EndRange 192.168.10.254 -SubnetMask 255.255.255.0 -Name RDSDesktops -Description "Pool for RDS desktop virtual machines" #Set up the DNS Server Option (6) in DHCP so DHCP clients have the DNS Server entry set Set-DhcpServerv4OptionValue -OptionId 6 -value 192.168.10.1 Set-DhcpServerv4OptionValue -OptionId 15 -value "contoso.com"
Sadly the trusty old DHCP MMC snapin doesn't have a history window so I looked at the options set by the wizard and set them as you can see here. Once all this is working I can go on to create the other VMs in this series. However this DC also sets up and uses a Hyper-V Internal Virtual Switch "RDS-Switch" and ensures that my physical host (Orange – which is my big Dell laptop) can connect to my new DC on that switch..
# Setup the Networking we need - we'll use an internal network called RDS-Switch. If it's not there already create it and set DNS to point to our new DC (RDS_DC) on 192.168.10.1 If (!(Get-VMSwitch | where name -EQ $VMSwitch )){New-VMSwitch -Name $VMSwitch -SwitchType Internal} # Now configure switch on the host with a static IPaddress and point it to our new VM for DNS $NetAdapter = Get-NetAdapter | Where name -Like ("*" + $VMSwitch + "*")
#Note the use of the !(some condition) syntax to refer to not true If (!(get-NetIPAddress -InterfaceAlias $NetAdapter.InterfaceAlias -IPAddress "192.168.10.100" -PrefixLength 24)) {New-NetIPAddress -InterfaceAlias $NetAdapter.InterfaceAlias -IPAddress "192.168.10.100" -PrefixLength 24} Set-DnsClientServerAddress -InterfaceAlias $NetAdapter.InterfaceAlias -ServerAddresses "192.168.10.1"
The final piece of the puzzle is to join my physical laptop to this domain, as I am going to need the host for VDI, and for now I am going to run that manually with the add computer command..
$LocalCred = new-object -typename System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -argumentlist "orange\administrator", (ConvertTo-SecureString "Passw0rd" -AsPlainText -Force ) $DomainCred = new-object -typename System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -argumentlist "Contoso\administrator", (ConvertTo-SecureString "Passw0rd" -AsPlainText –Force ) add-Computer ComputerName Orange –Domain Contoso.com–LocalCredential $Localcred –DomainCredential $DomainCred –Force
Start-Sleep –seconds 5
Restart-Computer Orange $localcred
..and of course to test that I need to pull it out of that domain before I test it again with Remove-Computer. By the Way don't put the –restart switch on the end of add computer as that will bounce your Host and hence your DC as well and while your host appears to be domain joined it doesn't show up in the domain.
I have posted the whole script on SkyDrive (Create RDS-DC.ps1) and it's called RDS-DC as it's designed to underpin my Remote Desktop Services demos. For example there are a couple of write-host lines in there to echo output to the console where in reality you would log progress to a file.
As ever any advice and comments on this is welcome and I can repay in swag and by properly crediting your work.
My laptop running Windows Server 2012R2 looks like this when it starts:
This is a good thing and a bad thing. It's a good thing if:
However if you are managing production servers at any kind of scale this is a bad thing as you don't need all the tools and interfaces on every server you deploy. All those tools expose interfaces like File and Internet explore so if your servers are in the wild (so not in managed data centres) then curious local admins might wish to use those tools to surf the net or reconfigure your servers. Also these interface require patching and can consume resources.
This is why Server Core was introduced in Windows Server 2008 and in Windows Server 2012R2 Server Core is the default installation option. All you get if you install Windows Server with this option is:
Server Core wasn't a popular choice in Windows Server 2008 for a number of reasons:
That has all been fixed in Windows Server 2012 and later and so Server Core should be your default option for all your servers except those used for Remote desktop Session Virtualization Hosts. You could achieve nearly the same result by doing an install and rip out all the interfaces once your server is configured they way you want in which case you would go to the menu remove features in Server Manager and in the features screen uncheck each of the options..
If you remove all of these from here or use PowerShell to do this:
Remove-WindowsFeature –Name Desktop-Experience, Server_Gui-Mgmt-Infra, Server-Gui-Shell
you essentially get Server Core. If you leave behind the Graphical Management Tools ..
Remove-WindowsFeature –Name Desktop-Experience, Server-Gui-Shell
You'll get what's known as "MinShell" all the management tools, but no extra fluff like IE and the Start menu, so this is also a popular choice.
If you do elect do a Server Core install and want then later decide to put the management user interface back in, you need to remember that the binaries for these aren't on the server so when you add the features in you'll need to specify a source switch, and before that you'll need to have access to the source for these features by mounting the appropriate .wim file using the Disk Image Servicing Management command (DISM):
MD C:\WS2012install
DISM /Mount-WIM /WIMFile:D:\sources\install.wim /Index:4 /MountDir:C:\WS2012Install /ReadOnly
Add-WindowsFeature –Name Server-GUI-Mgmt-Infra –Source c:\ws2012install\Windows\SxS
shutdown /r /t 0
DISM /Unmount-WIM /MountDir:C:\WS2012Install /Discard
This is actually quite a useful template as doesn't have the binaries needed to put IE etc. back in but is still easy to manage. You could then use this as the the basis for creating VMs for your labs and evaluations by sysprepping it:
sysprep /generalize /shutdown /oobe
and if you wanted to save space you could then use it as a parent for the differencing disks behind the various VMs in your lab environment.
There is a free version of Windows Server 2012R2 specifically designed for Hyper-V, called Hyper-V Server 2012R2. This is very like Server Core, but you can't add the UI back in and it only has a few roles in it specifically for Hyper-V, clustering and file servers as that's all that is included in the license.
To finish up Server core is really useful, and much easier to manage remotely than it was, as Windows Server is setup by default for remote management within a domain. Just as importantly you might have dismissed a feature in Windows when it first shows up in a new version, but it's worth checking back to how it's changed in each new versions, be that Server Core, Hyper-V, storage or those big squares!
In my last post I showed how to build a simple cluster out of two VMs and a shared disk. The VMs are nodes in this cluster..
and the shared "quorum" disk is used to mediate which node owns the cluster when a connection is lost between them..
However this cluster is not actually doing anything; it isn't providing any service as yet. In this post I am going to fix that and use this cluster as a scale out file server. This builds on top of what I did with a single file server earlier in this series. To recap I am essentially going to build a SAN, a bunch of disks managed by two controllers. The disks are the shared VHDX files I created last time and the controllers are the file server nodes in my cluster.
First of all I need to add in the the Scale out File Server role into the cluster..
Add-ClusterScaleOutFileServerRole -Name HACluster -Cluster HAFileServer If I go back to cluster manager I can see that the role is now installed..
This time the pool will be created on the cluster, and while I could expand pools under storage in cluster manager and create a new storage pool via the wizard, it's more interesting to look at the equivalent PowerShell. If I look at the storage subsystems on one of my nodes with
Get-StorageSubSystem | Out-GridView
I get this..
I need to use the second option so that my new pool gets created on the cluster rather than the on the server I am working on. The actual script I have is..
$PoolDisks = get-physicaldisk | where CanPool -eq $true $StorageSubSsytem = Get-StorageSubSystem | where FriendlyName -Like "Clustered Storage Spaces*" New-StoragePool -PhysicalDisks $PoolDisks –FriendlyName "ClusterPool" -StorageSubSystemID $StorageSubSsytem.UniqueId
Here again is an example of the power in PowerShell comes out:
In the same way $PoolDisk is an array of disks showing that we don't need to declare the type of object stored in a variable it could be a number, string collection of these or in this case a bunch of disks that can be put in a pool!
In the same way $PoolDisk is an array of disks showing that we don't need to declare the type of object stored in a variable it could be a number, string collection of these or in this case a bunch of disks that can be put in a pool!
#if you try this on your windows 8 laptop you'll need to run PowerShell as an administrator get-disk | get-member
#if you try this on your windows 8 laptop you'll need to run PowerShell as an administrator
get-disk | get-member
I said earlier that I am building a SAN, and within this my storage pool is a just a group of disks that I can manage. Having done that my next task on a SAN would create logical units (LUNs). Modern storage solutions are making more and more use of hybrid solutions where the disks involved are a mix of SSD and hard disks (HDDs), and intelligently placing the most used or 'hot' data on the SSD. Windows Server 2012R2 can do this and this is referred to as tiered storage. Because I am spoofing my shared storage (as per my last post) the media type of the disks is not set and so tiered storage wouldn't normally be available. However I can fix that with this PowerShell once I have create the pool..
#Assign media types based on size # Use (physicalDisk).size to get the sizes Get-PhysicalDisk | where size -eq 52881784832 | Set-PhysicalDisk -MediaType HDD Get-PhysicalDisk | where size -eq 9932111872 | Set-PhysicalDisk -MediaType SSD
#Create the necessary storage tiers New-StorageTier -StoragePoolFriendlyName ClusterPool -FriendlyName "SSDTier" -MediaType SSD New-StorageTier -StoragePoolFriendlyName ClusterPool -FriendlyName "HDDTier" -MediaType HDD
#Create a virtualDisk to use some of the space available $SSDTier = Get-StorageTier "SSDTier" $HDDTier = Get-StorageTier "HDDTier"
In the world of Windows Server storage I create a storage space which is actually a virtual hard disk and if I go into Cluster Manager and highlight my pool I can create a Virtual Disk...
Foolishly I called my disk LabOpsPool, but it's a storage space, not a pool. Anyway I did at check the option to use storage tiers (this only appears because of the spoofing I have already don to mark the disks as SSD/HDD), Next I can select the storage layout.
and then I can decide how much of each tier I want to allocate to my Storage Space/Virtual Disk..
Note the amount of space available is fixed - we have to use thick provisioning with storage tiers. and I could thin provision if I wasn't. BTW my numbers are more limited than you would expect because I have been testing this, and also the SSD number will be lower than you would think because the write cache also gets put on the SSDs as well. Having done that the wizard will allow me initialise the disk put a simple volume on it and format it.
Now I need to add the disk I created to Clustered Shared Volumes as I want to put application data (VM's and databases) on this disk. Then I need to navigate to the ScaleOut File Server role on the left pane and create a share on the disk so it can be actually used..
This fires up the same share wizard as you get when creating shares in Server Manager..
I am going to use this for storing application data,
it's going to be called VMStorage
my options are greyed out based on the choices I already made, but I can encrypt the data if I want to, and I don't need to do any additional work other than check this.
I then need to setup file permissions. You'll need to ensure your Hyper-V hosts, database servers etc. have full control on this share to use it. In my case my Hyper-V server are in a group I created imaginatively titled Hyper-V Servers.
#create two Storage spaces on with tiering and one without New-VirtualDisk -FriendlyName $SpaceName1 -StoragePoolFriendlyName $PoolName -StorageTiers $HDDTier,$SSDTier -StorageTierSizes 30Gb,5Gb -WriteCacheSize 1gb -ResiliencySettingName Mirror New-VirtualDisk -FriendlyName $SpaceName2 -StoragePoolFriendlyName $PoolName -StorageTiers $HDDTier,$SSDTier -StorageTierSizes 30Gb,5Gb -WriteCacheSize 1gb -ResiliencySettingName Mirror
#create the dedup volume and mount it #First we need to put the disk into maintenance mode $ClusterresourceName = "*("+ $SpaceName1 + ")*" Get-ClusterResource | where name -like $ClusterResourceName | Suspend-ClusterResource $VHD = Get-VirtualDisk $SpaceName1 $Disk = $VHD | Get-Disk Set-Disk $Disk.Number -IsOffline 0 New-Partition -DiskNumber $Disk.Number -DriveLetter "X" -UseMaximumSize Initialize-Volume -DriveLetter "X" -FileSystem NTFS -NewFileSystemLabel "DedupVol" -Confirm:$false #note -usagetype Hyper-V for use in VDI ONLY! Enable-DedupVolume -Volume "X:" -UsageType HyperV #Bring the disk back on line Get-ClusterResource | where name -like $ClusterResourceName | Resume-ClusterResource
#create the dedup volume and mount it #First we need to put the disk into maintenance mode $ClusterresourceName = "*("+ $SpaceName2 + ")*" Get-ClusterResource | where name -like $ClusterResourceName | Suspend-ClusterResource $VHD = Get-VirtualDisk $SpaceName2 $Disk = $VHD | Get-Disk Set-Disk $Disk.Number -IsOffline 0 New-Partition -DiskNumber $Disk.Number -DriveLetter "N" -UseMaximumSize Initialize-Volume -DriveLetter "N" -FileSystem NTFS -NewFileSystemLabel "NormalVol" -Confirm:$false #Bring the disk back on line Get-ClusterResource | where name -like $ClusterResourceName | Resume-ClusterResource
#Add to Cluster Shared Volumes $StorageSpaces = Get-ClusterResource | where Name -Like "Cluster Virtual Disk*" ForEach ($Space in $StorageSpaces) { Add-ClusterSharedVolume -Cluster $ClusterName -InputObject $Space }
#create the standard share directory on each new volume $DedupShare = "C:\ClusterStorage\Volume1\shares" $NormalShare = "C:\ClusterStorage\Volume2\shares" $VMShare = "VDI-VMs" $UserShare = "UserDisks"
md $DedupShare md $NormalShare
$Share = "Dedup"+$VMShare $SharePath = $DedupShare + "\" + $VMShare MD $SharePath New-SmbShare -Name $Share -Path $SharePath -CachingMode None -FullAccess contoso\Orange$,contoso\administrator -ScopeName $HAFileServerName -ContinuouslyAvailable $True
$Share = "Dedup"+$UserShare $SharePath = $DedupShare + "\" + $UserShare MD $SharePath New-SmbShare -Name $Share -Path $SharePath -CachingMode None -FullAccess contoso\Orange$,contoso\administrator -ScopeName $HAFileServerName -ContinuouslyAvailable $True
$Share = "Normal"+$VMShare $SharePath = $NormalShare + "\" + $VMShare MD $SharePath New-SmbShare -Name $Share -Path $SharePath -CachingMode None -FullAccess contoso\Orange$,contoso\administrator -ScopeName $HAFileServerName -ContinuouslyAvailable $True
$Share = "Normal"+$UserShare $SharePath = $NormalShare + "\" + $UserShare MD $SharePath New-SmbShare -Name $Share -Path $SharePath -CachingMode None -FullAccess contoso\Orange$,contoso\administrator -ScopeName $HAFileServerName -ContinuouslyAvailable $True
I know this can be sharpened up for production with loops and functions but I hope it's clearer laid out this way. Note I have to take the disk into maintenance mode on the cluster while I format them etc. where the storage spaces wizard takes care of that. This script is part of my VDI demo setup and so I have enabled deduplication on one storage space and not on the other to compare performance on each of these.
Once I have created my spaces and shares I am ready to use it, and a quick way to test all is well is to do a quick storage migration of a running VM to this new share. Just right click on a VM in Hyper-V Manager and select move to bring up the wizard.
after about 30 seconds my VM arrived safely on my File Server as you can see from its properties..
Hopefully that's useful - it certainly went down well in London, Birmingham & Glasgow during our recent IYT Camps and if you want the full script I used I have also put it on Skydrive. Not that this script is designed to be run from FileServer 2 having already setup the cluster with the cluster setup script I have already posted


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How to Enchant a Man: Spells to Bewitch, Bedazzle & Beguile
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Passion. Romance. Lasting love. All of this can be yours by calling upon the magick in nature--and the divine feminine power within.
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Designed for the single or married enchantress, this easy-to-use guidebook shows you how to craft love spells using objects commonly found in nature. It also includes a spell worksheet for creating your own spells and charms.
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Moonves told a conference audience that he met with Jobs, the late Apple CEO, and heard a pitch for what was billed as a subscription content service, but ultimately he said he wasn't interested in providing CBS shows or films to the venture.
"I told Steve, 'You know more than me about 99 percent of things but I know more about the television business,' " Moonves said, citing his concerns about providing content to a service that could disrupt CBS' existing revenue streams. Moonves said Jobs, in characteristic fashion, strongly disagreed with his assessment.
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Despite his skepticism over Apple TV, Moonves was bullish on digital dealmaking. He specifically cited the benefits of CBS content deals with Netflix (which he called a "friend") and Amazon, as well as the value of pacts with Hulu and Netflix for The CW network, co-owned by CBS and Time Warner.
"That's what changed the CW from being a losing proposition to being a (money maker)," Moonves said.
Ziffren congratulated Moonves for CBS stock hitting a 52-week high on Friday before asking him to assess the various CBS divisions.
Moonves attributed the CBS success to the recovery of the ad market as well as new revenue streams that didn't exist three years ago: Retransmission fees from distributors, reverse compensation (payments to the network by non-owned affiliates) and the rise of such subscription companies as Netflix and Amazon, which are paying hundreds of millions of dollars for library content.
Moonves also praised Showtime for growing its subscriber base from 13 million to 22 million in the past 5 years thanks to its original programming strategy. "We're now talked about as an equal to HBO," Moonves said, citing such hits as Dexter and Homeland, which he called "the hottest show in America."
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Moonves said he was bullish on political advertising from Super- PACs fueling the bottom line at CBS-owned stations.
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We booked the Guesthouse for a week and we were sorry we didn't book it for a longer period. The house itself was great, spacious and equipped with everything you might need. The beds were long enough… More
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Eva-Lotta and Peter were the perfect hosts. I stayed in the Stable, which was perfect for me - lots of room, enormous bathroom, well-stocked kitchen. The town is extremely small, so very quiet. Many t… More