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How to Configure Hyper-V Remote Management

How to Configure Hyper-V Remote Management

This article is based on John Howard's blog post Configure Hyper-V Remote Management in seconds. If you have additional tips, resources, or troubleshooting steps, please add them. It is the wiki way!

Use John's free tool hvremote.exe available at http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/HVRemote (along with the documentation) to configure Full installations and Server Core Installations of Windows Server 2008, and Windows Server 2008 R2 with the Hyper-V role enabled for remote management. Hvremote applies when when the Hyper-V server (sometimes called a "host server") is joined to a domain or in a workgroup.

1. Server: To give or remove a user access permissions:

       hvremote /add:domain\user                  or
       hvremote /remove:domain\user

Add 

2. Server & Client: Display current settings (server or client): (Screenshot is client side)

       hvremote /show

showclient 

The other useful options are:

3. Find out all the command line options: hvremote /help or hvremote /?

usage

And here are a couple of client side options:

4. Client: Add firewall exception for MMC: hvremote /mmc:enable
5. Client: Allow anonymous access to Distributed COM: hvremote /AnonDCOM:grant
6. Client: Set stored credentials for connecting to non-domain server: cmdkey /add:targetname /user:username /pass 

Download and install Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7 or Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows Vista  as required for your client. Note that the tools are included in Windows Server 2008 R2, so no download is required. In Windows Server 2008 R2. You can install the Remote Server Administration Tools pack by using either the Add Features Wizard in Windows Server 2008 R2, or by using a command line to install the feature. The Remote Server Administration Tools pack is not available on Itanium-Based operating systems.

How to install the tools:

 

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