Month: February 2017

I’m keeping this original post active for historical reference, but you should not use the below, since I have an update: Step 3 is dead. Long live step 3.1

This is it.  The endgame.  Here I’ll give you the final steps in configuring my server.  We started with creating the virtual machine then moved to configuring the disks.  We’re at the end – where’s it’s time to do the final configurations.

In summary, we’re going to do several steps here.  They pretty much follows my other guide step-by-step, so I’ll be brief in covering them here.

1. Variable Declaration
2. Installing Windows Features
3. Enabling Disk Performance Metrics
4. Installing some Utilities
5. Copying the IIS Folders to a new Location
6. Enable Deduplication (optional)
7. Removing unnecessary IIS Websites and Application Pools
8. Tweaking the IIS Settings
9. Tweaking the ASP.NET Settings
10. Creating a location for the TFTP and SFTP Roots (for NCM)
11. Configuring Folder Redirection
12. Pre-installing ODBC Drivers (for SAM Templates)

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In Step 1 of this series, I showed off the PowerShell scripts that I use to create a new Orion Server VM on Hyper-V.  Now we are on to configuring the disks.

As before, we have a boot drive and 4 additional drives which will contain various data files.  We first need to bring the disks online and initialize them.

If you installed from an ISO, you should either remove the device from your virtual machine before this point, or change the drive mounting to a letter other than D, E, F, or G. I’m generally a fan of changing it to Z:.

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