Configuring Remote Management of Hyper-V Server - in a workgroup
I have received a number of questions about how to go about setting up remote management of our free Hyper-V server (not the one that is part of Windows). So I thought I would sit down and write up a set of blog posts to talk about how to do this. Today I am going to talk about how to remotely manage a Hyper-V server from a Windows 7 desktop when in a workgroup environment.
I am going to assume that you have already installed Hyper-V server and have configured the server name, workgroup name and networking appropriately (in my case – the server name is “Server1” and the workgroup name is “WORKGROUP” – not very original, I know). Also, I am not going to be talking about the other aspects of setting up a Hyper-V server (e.g. configuring automatic updates, enabling remote desktop, etc…). I am just focusing on how to get remote management working.
Server Configuration
The first thing you will need to do is to go to the Hyper-V server and run SConfig.cmd (this is configured to run automatically when you log into a Hyper-V server – if you have changed this you can start it manually. It is in the Windows\System32 folder on the server). Once you are in SConfig.cmd you will need to:
- Select option 4 on the SConfig menu (labeled Configure Remote Management)
- Then select options 1 (Allow MMC Remote Management) and 2 (Enable Windows PowerShell)
- After you enabled Windows PowerShell you will be asked to reboot.
- After the reboot – go back into SConfig and select option 4 again
- Select option 3 (Allow Server Manager Remote Management)
- Note that Server Manager Remote Management requires that you have PowerShell enabled first – so you cannot shuffle this ordering around to try and avoid the reboot.
- Select option 5 to Return to main menu
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