Windows Server 2016 Evaluation to Standard

Target Edition : ServerStandard
Target Edition : ServerDatacenter

Dism /online /Set-Edition: /AcceptEula /ProductKey:12345-67890-12345-67890-12345 

Where it is the higher edition that you want to change to. (ServerStandard or ServerDatacenter) Source

Connect to Windows 2016 HyperV Core with delegated credentials / CredSSP

CredSSP authentication is currently disabled on the local client. You must be running with administrator privileges in order to enable CredSSP

On Win2016 desktop CLIENT

Powershell:

PS C:\Users\Administrator>start-service winrm
PS C:\Users\Administrator>Enable-WSManCredSSP -Role client -DelegateComputer *
PS C:\Users\Administrator>stop-service winrm

GPEDIT (as administrator)

Local Computer Policy > Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > System > Credentials Delegation:

Allow delegating fresh credentials with NTLM-only server authentication

Set: "Enabled" and "Add servers to the list"

Show: enter "WSMAN/*" as Value

Fire up Hyper-V Manager and connect to server only with IP-address and enter as user "[IP Address]\[username]” and set the password.

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Migrate Mediawiki installation

Old server

backup existing database - mysql dump

copy files folder frp, public_html

New Server

create new database, with same name/username

restore into new database - mysql -u username -p new_database < data-dump.sql source

copy files to public_html

edit LocalSettings.php: $wgServer - update to new URL

New disk for existing VM

"Disk offline with error – the disk is offline because of a policy set by an administrator"

After adding a new hard drive to an existing VM, it will show as offline, this can be corrected using the steps below in the diskpart cmd prompt

san policy=OnlineAll 

This will result in the following message: Diskpart successfully changed the SAN policy for the current operating system.

list disk

Check the number of any offline disks and select them

select disk 1
attributes disk clear readonly
online disk

The disk will now be available in Disk Management.

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