Windows Server and USB flash drives

Can you create a bootable USB flash drive to install Windows Server 2012 for example? Yes you can as this TechNet article demonstrates:
http://www.wservernews.com/go/1402572934608

In fact, you can even boot the standalone Microsoft Hyper-V Server from a USB flash drive as explained here:
http://www.wservernews.com/go/1402572938640

This post by Blain Barton, a Senior IT Pro Evangelist at Microsoft, explains how to boot to VHD with Windows Server 2012 using a flash drive:
http://www.wservernews.com/go/1402572943187

The next post from The IT Pro Exchange blog on TechNet demonstrates you can use the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool for installing Windows Server 2012 from USB flash drives:
http://www.wservernews.com/go/1402572946952

Of course this works with Windows Server 2012 R2 as well as MVP Thomas Balkestahl explains here:
http://www.wservernews.com/go/1402572951093

The above tip was previously published in an issue of WServerNews, a weekly newsletter from TechGenix that focuses on the administration, management and security of the Windows Server platform in particular and cloud solutions in general. Subscribe to WServerNews today by going to http://www.wservernews.com/subscribe.htm and join almost 100,000 other IT professionals around the world who read our newsletter!

Mitch Tulloch is a twelve-time recipient of the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award and a widely recognized expert on Windows Server and cloud computing technologies.  Mitch is also Senior Editor of WServerNews. For more information about him see http://www.mtit.com.

 

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