I’ve got myself a copy of the book: Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Cookbook. In this book there is a lot and I mean really a lot nerdy stuff about the new Hyper-V role in Server 2012. It tells you, in depth, how to install/configure and maintenance a complete Hyper-V environment.

Every chapter is dived into:

• Introduction about the chapter;
• Getting Ready;
• How to do it;
• How it works.

Where possible the are some extra’s like:

• PowerShell or other scripts;
• Best practices;
• Tips and Tricks.

The book covers everything a Hyper-V nerd needs to know

Click on the logo to go directly to the book.

In this blog post I’m trying to explain how-to create a mandatory profile for Server 2012 and Windows 8. This is only for a clean windows installation. The Microsoft best practices are saying that you need to update the Mandatory profile after each software installation/update on the system.

The Test User

First we create a user named: Manny. This user is used to create the profile. You can name it any way you want. Don’t give it any profile. You can create a local user, but my test machine is also a domain controller, so I only can create an AD user.