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This is a draft that will ultimately be blogged later. If you're seeing this after April 2017 it's probably out of date.

Making a pre-updated Windows Server 2016 ISO

Prerequisites

1. Install the Windows Assessment and Deployment Toolkit
2. Download a Windows Server 2016 ISO such as the trial here - TODO
3. Download the latest cumulative update

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version: '2'
services:
  wordpress:
    image: wordpress
    ports:
      - 8080:80
    environment:
      WORDPRESS_DB_PASSWORD: Password123!
    restart: always
    depends_on:

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Using Azure Container Service with Kubernetes and Windows containers

There's still a problem with the PowerShell module & Azure Container Service. For now you'll need to use the portal:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-service/container-service-kubernetes-windows-walkthrough

Later, if you'd like to try using PowerShell to deploy a cluster, then follow the next section. Otherwise, skip to "Building & Deploying MusicStore"

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Using a Mikrotik router to boot and install Windows

Lately I've been using Mikrotik routers because they're cheap, powerful, and fast. Most of them have either a USB or MicroSD slot, so you can add enough space to store network boot images right on the router.

I got most of the tips needed from these two articles, and combined them into this step by step guide:

• PXE boot to Fedora Linux using a Mikrotik firewall
• Configure a PXE server to load Windows PE

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Adapted from http://digitalhacksblog.blogspot.com/2015/01/it-worked-for-me-winpe-bitlocker-and.html, updated for Windows 10

C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Assessment and Deployment Kit\Deployment Tools>dism /mount-wim /wimfile:c:\winpe_amd64\media\sources\boot.wim /index:1 /mountdir:c:\winpe_amd64\mount

Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool
Version: 10.0.14393.0

Mounting image
[==========================100.0%==========================]

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Booting Windows Server 2016 Core from eMMC devices

Comparing drivers between Desktop & Core editions

The Windows installation ISO contains multiple Windows image files (WIM):

• boot.wim - this is used to boot the Windows Preinstallation Environment (WinPE) for a clean install
• install.wim - this contains the image(s) that will be installed.

The Windows Server 2016 ISO contains multiple versions in this single install.wim file which is why the same media can be used to install Standard or Datacenter editions, with the desktop experience or without it (core).

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Just an experiment setting up a test deployment of Zookeeper + Mesos + Marathon on an existing machine with Docker installed.

Running it

docker-compose up -d

Accessing Mesos UI:

http://<hostip>:5050

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I've made the mistake of accidently removing VMs with Remove-VM or Hyper-V Manager that I originally created with Vagrant. This is a set of code snippets I'm using to help prevent that and make it easy to find all Vagrant created VMs, remove the ones I don't need, then delete the boxes.

$oldpwd = $pwd ; gci -r Vagrantfile | %{ cd $_.Directory ; Write-Output "Checking status at $pwd" ; vagrant.exe status } ; cd $oldpwd

Other things I still need to do:

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I've made the mistake of accidently removing VMs with Remove-VM or Hyper-V Manager that I originally created with Vagrant. This is a set of code snippets I'm using to help prevent that and make it easy to find all Vagrant created VMs, remove the ones I don't need, then delete the boxes.

$oldpwd = $pwd ; `
gci -r Vagrantfile | %{ `
  cd $_.Directory ; `
  Write-Output "Checking status at $pwd" ; `
 vagrant.exe status } ; `

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There's a prebuilt VHD with Windows Server 2016, Visual Studio 2017, and more for hands on labs available from https://almvm.azurewebsites.net/labs/tfs/ . This will upload it to Azure and create a ready to run VM :)

Unfortunately as of 6/5, it doesn't work. I can't connect to it presumably because Remote Desktop isn't enabled or the firewall port isn't open

Download all parts

(Invoke-WebRequest https://almvm.azurewebsites.net/labs/tfs/almvm2017url.txt -UseBasicParsing).Content -split '\r?\n' | %{ Start-BitsTransfer $_ }