Chapter 15. Automating network settings for hosts

Sometimes the best way to troubleshoot something is to avoid problems in the first place. Complex Hyper-V configurations can be time consuming to set up manually and can lead to issues that are hard to troubleshoot. Windows PowerShell is so useful because you can use it to automate the configuration process to ensure it’s free of errors. Of course that means your Windows PowerShell commands and scripts must also be free of errors.

A good way to learn how to create error-free configuration scripts is to study and then customize scripts created by experts. In this section, Trevor Cooper-Chadwick, a Principle Consultant with Microsoft Consulting Services UK, demonstrates how to use Windows PowerShell ...

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