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Andy Schneider is a Systems Engineer at Avanade, a company that was started in 2000 to merge leading enterprise technology solutions with cutting-edge business consulting capabilities. Andy is a member of the IT Infrastructure Hosting team for Avanade's IT Services. He focuses on virtualization using Hyper-V and has done a lot of work with NetApp storage devices. Andy uses PowerShell on a daily basis to manage Hyper-V, Microsoft Clusters, and NetApp storage devices. When Andy is not writing PowerShell code, you can find him spending time with his beautiful wife and two daughters or working out at Kirkland Crossfit. You can find Andy's personal PowerShell blog at http://get-powershell.com and follow him on twitter at @andys146.

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Server Core – Preparing Your Desktop

March 14, 2008 at 4:03 PM — Andy Schneider

I find it amusing that the longest task that occurs the first time you log into Server Core is "Preparing Your Desktop."

I can just here the server now... "where the heck am I going to put that console window anyway?"

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KRTT says:

March 27, 2008 at 9:03 PM

I came across with the same problem, anyone can Help on how to disable "Preparing your Desktop"

thank you.

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