Kevin Oppihle's Tech Notes

Log onto your Microsoft Live account and Download the installation media here: http://aka.ms/hv2012gs Run the Setup and restart as necessary. After installing you will be prompted to create a default Administrator password. After setting up your password log onto the server. It will open a command prompt and basic management console as shown below: The menus are straight forward and will prompt you through the process I underlined my settings: 1) Domain/Workgroup : to add to domain, setup workgroup name 2) Computer Name: 1 3) Add Local Administrator : I would recommend creating at least one additional administrator 4) Configure Remote Management : Enable or Disable 5) Windows Update Settings: Manual or Automatic 6) Download and Install Updates : 7) Remote Desktop : Enable or Disable and authentication methods 8) Network Settings : Configure as Static or DCHP Settings including DNS 9) Date and Time : 10) Help improve the product with CEIP : Customer Experience Improve...

Problem: When you open the Hyper-V Manager after a restart your VMs are missing as shown below: Solution: First make sure your Antivirus is excluding your VM directory If you have known good backups do the following first and save yourself time. -Stop the service using the Hyper-V Manager “stop service” icon on the right or at a dos prompt: Net Stop “Hyper-v virtual machine management” -Do a restore of your VMs\Virtual Machines\ directory containing your XML files such as the path below to an alternate location such as VMs\Restore\  -Rename the existing XML files with the prefix OLD (with the GUID remaining) -Move the restored XML files only from VMs\Restore\ to the VMs\Virtual Machines directory -Start the service using the Hyper-V Manager “start service” icon on the right or at a dos prompt: Net Start “Hyper-v virtual machine management” Your VM’s should now be repopulated and starting up. If all works properly you can delete the corrupted OLD(GUID).xml files. If not procee...