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Completely remove Hyper-V Virtual Machines

January 20, 2017November 8, 2022Sandy Zeng12 Comments

Yes, I know, why not use Hyper-V console remove Virtual Machines? Thanks for Jokelainen Jouni gave me this idea about create this script! So as you know, when delete Virtual Machines from Hyper-V console, it left all the checkpoint hard disks and virtual hardisks behin. In a case, if you have lots of Hyper-V host, […]

Hyper-V: Remove virtual machine firmware file bootmgfw.efi

November 13, 2016July 5, 2020Sandy ZengLeave a Comment

I often use virtual machines to test OSD, and usually I use same virtual machine again and again, because I don’t want to re-create my virtual machine and add it to my SCCM test collections. Yeah, I know I am lazy. 🙂 After reinstall the same virtual machine many times, you will notice there are […]

How to manually enable Bitlocker on Hyper-V Gen 2 Virtual Machine

September 30, 2016July 5, 2020Sandy Zeng3 Comments

You can automatic enable Bitlocker on your Hyper-V Gen 2 virtual machine during OSD, please read Niall Brady’s post Here But if you already install a Hyper-V Gen 2 virtual machine, and you want to enable bitlocker, you can do it manually. Here are the steps: Open cmd as administrator Set XTS-AES256 Engryption REG.exe add […]