Windows 2008 initial settings

This blog post is mostly for myself to easily cut and paste from here, but it may be useful to some others. I find myself continually installing and reinstalling Windows 2008 servers for Exchange 2008 dev environments these days. So I have began to write a batch file I cut and paste each time, edit a few parameters, save as SVRCFG.cmd and then double click. This saves me a few minutes of manually typing everything out each time. Multiply this by an average 8 servers per environment and it soon adds up. Nothing here is rocket science, just nice simple command line administration in a batch file.

powercfg /hibernate off
netsh firewall set opmode DISABLE
netdom renamecomputer %computername% /newname:ET01 /force
netsh int ipv4 set address name=10 source=static address=192.168.0.15 mask=255.255.255.0 gateway=192.168.0.254
netsh int ipv4 add dnsserver name=10 address=192.168.0.1
reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\Auto Update" /v AUOptions /t REG_DWORD /d "3" /f
servermanagercmd -install Powershell
Shutdown -r -t 2

Things to check:
Change the server name
Change the IP address
Check the Network cards Idx number or "name"