Category: Microsoft Evaluation Center

Creating a Hyper-V VM running Evaluation versions of Windows server using PowerShell

Sometimes you want to test something, but... You must install a new VM on your machine, which takes time. Microsoft offers evaluation versions of its server operating systems in a VHD format. In a blog post, I will show you how to create a Windows Server VM based on a VHD file, which gets you up and running quickly 🙂

Get all download links from Microsoft Evaluation Center

A few weeks ago, the Microsoft Evaluation Center's website was down, and I saw a post about it on the Tech Community. (Article) People were sharing links to a few ISO files from it to help people who needed them. That got me thinking. What if I could export all of them just in case something happens to the site again?! This blog post describes a method to retrieve all links from the Evaluation Center.