I recently received an email from someone who attended one of my presentations asking if I had a blog article on using PowerShell to compact and optimize VHD files. Since I didn’t have a blog article on that subject, I decided to create one. The process itself is fairly simple. The examples shown in this blog article are being run on a Windows 10 computer which has Hyper-V enabled on it....
So you need to mount an ISO on a physical server that is running Windows Server 2012 R2 Server Core? If so, how would you accomplish that task without a graphical user interface? With PowerShell of course, specifically the Mount-DiskImage PowerShell cmdlet: Mount-DiskImage -ImagePath 'D:\ISO\Windows Server 2012 Trial\9200.16384.WIN8_RTM.120725-1247_X64FRE_SERVER_EVAL_EN-US-HRM_SSS_X64FREE_EN-US_DV5.ISO' -StorageType ISO -PassThru By default nothing is returned when using the Mount-DiskImage cmdlet and the ISO is mounted using the next available drive letter....