Welcome to the blog of mechanised.com

This blog is mainly a technical repository of information on Virtualisation tools and management for our hosting service.

Also for HP's Bladesystem that we use at both our datacentres.

Other articles are also included on .Net development and MS SQL Server as well as other interesting things we come across.

Wednesday 29 May 2013

How to reduce Server 2008 R2 x64 winsxs folder

dism /online /cleanup-image /spsuperseded

This freed up about 4GB on the system drive, server was upgraded to SP1 so it removed plenty of pre-SP1 files.


Thursday 9 May 2013

Get remote HP Server serial and product number

Couple of quick powershell commands will get you what you need:

Product number
gwmi win32_ComputerSystem | select OEMStringArray

Serial number
gwmi win32_bios | select SerialNumber