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In this Screencast, we will demonstrate how to manage Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 remotely in a Workgroup configuration. There are many cases when you will prefer to run the free Hyper-V server as a stand-alone machine or in a workgroup instead of in a domain. When you try to connect and manage remotely the Hyper-V machine, you are getting errors like:
● “You do not have the required permissions to complete this task. Contact the administrator of the authorization policy for this computer”
● “An error occurred while attempting to connect to server. Check that the Virtual Machine Management service is running and that you are authorized to connect to the server”
● “RPC server unavailable. Unable to establish communication between …”

We have already demonstrated how to install and configure Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 in the following Step-by-Step Screencast.
If you are using the Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 as a member of a Domain, then managing it remotely is performed as demonstrated in How to Manage Hyper-V RTM on Server Core from Windows Vista.

The scenario when you are using and managing Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 remotely in a workgroup requires special attention and configuration on both sides – the managed Server and the managing Client. In the following Step-by-Step Screencast, you will see how to manage remotely a Hyper-V server in a Workgroup environment. For demonstration purposes the Hyper-V server is a member of HYPERGROUP workgroup and the managing workstation is a member of a different workgroup – VISTAGROUP. If you need to manage remotely Hyper-V server, member of workgroup, from a machine which is a member of a Domain, you have to logon with a local machine account.

For your convenience you can download the text file, with the commands, necessary to type in command prompt on the server and on the client.

Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 is a free product available for download from Microsoft Download Center
It is important to note that the product does not require Host Server license. Each Windows guest Virtual Machine which is running on it requires a license, though. In comparison Windows Server 2008 standard edition Host Server License includes 1 Physical and 1 Virtual Machine license, the Enterprise edition – 1 Physical and 4 Virtual machines, and the datacenter edition – 1 Physical and unlimited VMs.
Microsoft Hyper-V Server is a perfect choice for you, if you do not plan to use more than 4 CPUs on the host server, and more than 32 GB of memory. It also lacks some of the advance Virtualization features like Clustering and Quick Migration. In addition, it lacks most of the Server Roles which you are used to see on Server Core. Here is the list of Server Roles, available in Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008:
– BitLocker
– BitLocker-RemoteAdminTool
– Microsoft-Hyper-V
– Microsoft-Windows-RemovableStorageManagementCore
– MultipathIo
– NetworkLoadBalancingHeadlessServer
– SNMP-SC
– TelnetClient
– WindowsServerBackup

Only the Microsoft Hyper-V role is installed by default.

Hyper-V Server requires:
-An x64-based CPU
-Hardware-assisted virtualization (Intel VT or AMD-v)
-Hardware Data Execution Protection (DEP)

In the following Screencast, we will demonstrate Step-by-Step how to install and configure Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008. In our demonstration, we will join Hyper-V Server to a Windows Server 2008 domain, and we will enable Remote Desktop on it.
In our next screencast, we will demonstrate how to manage it remotely from a Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista machine (installing roles and configuring and managing Virtual Guests).