[hemmerling] Windows 10, Windows Server 2016 & Nano Server

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• Microsoft Windows.
• Scripting Languages for Windows 2/3 - Windows PowerShell.
• Windows Embedded, Windows Embedded CE.
• Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 and 2012, Windows 8.

• See also Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 and 2012, Windows 8.

• Microsoft Technet Blogs "TechNet Team Blog Austria. Informationen und News abseits der offiziellen TechNet vom TechNet Team Blog Austria "Windows 10 ISO Build 10565 als Download", 2015-10-18.

• The OpenSource “VLC Media Player” may play DVDs ⇒ See Audiovision 4/5 - Video Tools.
• The commercial “Windows DVD Player”.
  • Microsoft Help "Windows DVD Player" - “The Windows DVD Player app enables Windows 10PCs with an optical disc drive to play DVD movies (but not Blu-ray discs). You can buy it in the Microsoft Store”.
  • Windows Store "Windows DVD Player", $14.99.

• International Business Times "5 Missing Features In Windows 10: Don't Expect To Play DVDs Or Run Floppy Disks" - “Believe it or not, Windows 10 does not support playing back DVD videos out-of-the-box. The exception to this, for some incomprehensible reason, is if you are upgrading from a version of Windows with Windows Media Center installed. Everyone else will need to download Windows DVD Player from the Windows Store”.

• As of 2016-12, with Win10-Pro, 64-bit, the legacy hardware “Floppy Disk drives” is not fully supported:
  • You may read and write Floppy disks from 1.44 MB Floppy Disk drives.
  • You may not format Floppy disks by the Windows Desktop tools .
  • You may format Floppy disks by commandline:

    FORMAT A:

• Google - Search for "win 10 floppy formatting".
• Tech@Play "How to format floppy disk to 720K in Windows" - “Microsoft has officially removed support for formatting floppies to 720K since Windows XP. However, if you do find yourself in a situation where you need a floppy to be formatted to 720K, you can still do it through command line. Open command line (Start → Run → cmd), insert a floppy, and enter the following in command line:

  FORMAT A: /T:80 /N:9

• Tech Support Forum "Floppy drive not working in Win 10" - “You can copy the files fdc.sys and flpydisk.sys from C:\Windows\System32\Drivers in Windows 7, 8 or 8.1 and copy them to the same place in Windows 10 to get the drive to work”.
• The Windows Club "How to use Floppy Disk on Windows 10".

• Deskmodder - News, Tipps, Hilfe "Kennwort, die Dauer ändern in Windows 10" - “Win + R”, “secpol.msc” = “Lokale Sicherheitsrichtline → Als Administrator ausführen ... Sicherheitseinstellungen → Kontenrichtlininen → Maximales Kennwortalter” ( default: 42, forever: 0 ).

• Microsoft "Windows 10 free upgrade offer ends July 29" - Win10 updater “Windows10Upgrade9194.exe” ( 5 MBytes ) for Win7, Win8.x.

• Google - Search for "8024402c windows update".
  • Microsoft Answers "Windows Update Error 8024402C".
    • “This error might be caused by a program running on your computer that's preventing Windows Update Services (SVCHOST) from accessing the Internet. Programs that might do this include firewalls, antispyware software, web accelerators, Internet security or antivirus programs and proxy servers”.
    • My experience: The error message might also appear with computers connected to a network switch, which itself is connected to a ( DSL ) router, even with permanent local IP address ) .
  • Windows Seven Forums "Windows 7: Windows wont update error-8024402C".
  • Windows Seven Forums "Windows Update Posting Instructions" ( for Win10 ).
• Google - Search for "80070004-3000+windows".
  • Microsoft Community "error 80070004-3000D when trying to install windows 10".
• Google - Search for "0xc7700100 windows".
  • Microsoft Community "getting error code 0xc7700100 when upgrading 8.1 pro with media center to Windows 10 pro?".
  • Microsoft Community "Installing Windows 10 to a new SSD".
  • Microsoft Community "How to: Troubleshoot common Setup and Stop Errors during Windows 10 Installation".
  • Microsoft Support "Get help with Windows 10 upgrade and installation errors".
• Google - Search for "80200056 windows".
• Google - Search for "0xc1900200 windows" → Maybe the installation of Win7SP2 helps to avoid this error?!

• Microsoft "Kunden, die Hilfstechnologien nutzen, können kostenlos auf Windows 10 aktualisieren".

• Google - Search for "windows 10 behinderte update".
• heise "Kostenloses Upgrade auf Windows 10 weiter erhältlich - auf kleinen Umwegen", 2016-08-01.
• WinFuture.
  • WinFuture "Windows 10: Per Trick bekommt man das kostenlose Upgrade immer noch", 2016-08-01.
  • WinFuture "Windows 10 für Menschen mit Handicap gratis: Schlupfloch wird geschlossen", 2016-08-02.

• Windows Insider about Win10, for Win10 users.
• Appuals.com - Tech How-to's from the Expert! "SOLVED: Microsoft Edge Can’t be opened using the built-in Administrator Account".
  • Run “secpol.msc” as Administrator.
  • Select “Security Settings / Local Policies / Security Options”.
  • Enable “User Account Control: Admin Approval Mode for the Built-in Administrator” / “Benutzerkontensteuerung: Administratorengenehmigungsmodus für das integrierte Administratorkonto”.
  • Restart the computer.

• See also Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 and 2012, Windows 8.

• Microsoft Hyper-V.
  • Microsoft Windows Container.
    • Microsoft Windows Container "Nano Server installation option of Windows Server Technical Preview 4 for Developers" - Download of a VHD virtual image.

• Username: “Administrator”, Password: “node2”.

• Windows Server "Getting Started with Nano Server".
• Blog Microsoft TechNet Blogs "Nano Server".
  • Microsoft TechNet Blogs "Nano Server", "Download just Nano Server in a VHD (Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 4)".

• Windows Server & Management Blogs - Ben Armstrong’s Virtualization Blog, Hyper-V Program Manager "Running Nano from Windows Server 2016 TP3 on Hyper-V".

• Matt Wrock " A Packer template for Windows Nano server weighing 300MB", 2015-09-28 - “If you are on Windows and want to create Virtualbox VMs, the instructions for creating the nano image are nearly identical. The key change is to specify -OEMDrivers instead of -GuestDrivers in the New-NanoServerImage command”.

• How-To-Geek "How to Run PowerShell Commands on Remote Computers".
• WindowsNetworking.com "Remote Management with PowerShell (Part 1)".

• Redmond MAGAZINE "First Look: Windows Nano Server", 2015-09-02.
• Windows Server Blog. Your Guide to the Latest Windows Server Product Information "Microsoft Announces Nano Server for Modern Apps and Cloud", 2015-04-08.
• EN.Wikipedia "Windows Server 2016" - “Microsoft announced a new installation option, Nano Server, a minimal footprint installation option of Windows Server. It excludes the graphical user interface, WoW64 (support for 32-bit software) and Windows Installer. It does not support console logon, neither locally nor via Remote Desktop Connection. All management is performed remotely via Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) and PowerShell. Microsoft engineer Jeffrey Snover claims that Nano Server had 93 percent lower VHD size, 92 percent fewer critical security advisories, and 80 percent fewer reboots than Windows Server”.

• OpenDirectory "Top: Computers: Software: Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows".