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Being able to perform out-of-band remote power control actions on a server can be a necessity in distributed environments. This article will walk you through some of power control's mysteries, such as power control types, how they are used, and a few tricks that can be pulled to make 10G hardware more easily accessible through the DS console.

Here are some more tips and tricks for those who use Deployment Solution for Dell Servers 3+ to manage their Dell Server hardware. This article builds on its predecessor, providing more shortcuts and clues on how to make your job easier as an IT manager over Dell systems.

The Linux preboot has been known to be fast at performing Bare Metal to OS installs under Deployment Solution for Dell Servers, but just when you thought it couldn't get any faster, it did. I can get these "cheeta" Bare Metal to OS jobs to execute in under 5 minutes without skipping any of the configuration steps. Use this step by step article to eliminate all reboots tasks in your deployment jobs saving time and network bandwidth and effectively making deployment up to twice to three times as fast. This job also greatly reduces PXE server strain allowing you to deploy more machines at once!

PowerShell is the new powerful scripting language created by Microsoft. You can install it to Windows XP and above and it is included in Windows Server 2008.

Here is how to run a PowerShell Script through Deployment Server.

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Here's a scripting trick. Script conditions are very useful to allow scripts to branch according to different attributes of the job or system. But what if you could branch according to which folder the job is currently in? This adds some new possibilities to how you can control scripts easily, just by moving them to a different folder.

After using a product for awhile, you tend to learn a few tricks that save time. Unfortunately it may take you doing a certain action dozens of times before finding a better way. This article is meant to be a miscellaneous compilation of little tricks that I learned over time that save time and frustration when deploying machines with Deployment Solution for Dell Servers 3+.

Deployment Solution for Dell Servers 3.1 has introduced support for Bare Metal to Windows Server 2008 scripted installs via WinPE. This article will show you how to speed up this job by utilizing the Linux environment in the hardware configuration phase, which also has the benefit of giving you a wider range of hardware you can configure.