Remotely Manage Hyper-V Server 2012 Core - Workgroup Env

Having troubles trying to manage Hyper-V Server 2012 Core remotely in a Workgroup environment? This tutorial should be able to resolve those issues.

If you are in a domain environment, managing Hyper-V Server 2012 Core will work great.

However, if you are in a workgroup environment, it's not easy to setup and remotely manage Hyper-V 2012. I must have shot eight different recordings until I was able to iron out all of the issues. Hopefully you will find this tutorial helpful.

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[DickyBenfield]

I think the PowerShell command you needed was:
Enable-NetFirewallRule -DisplayGroup "Remote Administration"
In any case, great video. Thank you. I have not been able to find any other videos on this. I'll probably be running through this process tomorrow. So I will let you know how it goes... Thanks again!

[StarlightStream]

That is a pretty awesome way of dealing with Hyper-v remotely. It took me AGES to get it up and running for only one machine. Great job.

[PC-Addicts]

Thanks! In a domain environment, this would be fairly simple... the problem is we are trying to set it up in a non-domain... which VMWare would definitely be a lot easier. Thanks for the comment!

[PC-Addicts]

I think you hit the nail on the head - I think typically you would be in a domain enviornment if/when you want to set something like this up.

[PC-Addicts]

That's why, you are not running 2012 which includes PowerShell v3.0. I'm not sure if you install it if it will have all of the needed cmdlets but you can try.

[PC-Addicts]

You are welcome. I guess it would have to depend on the scenario/enviornment. In all honesty, I feel I would lean towards ESXi before Hyper-V.

[PC-Addicts]

Wow... you are rockin' it!! Great work man! I just got done reformatting and setting up a test VM to be able to mess with the Hyper-V Management Tools... great info! Appreciate you taking the time to both test and post here what has / hasn't worked for ya! Thanks!

[PC-Addicts]

Hello there... VMWare? Are you talking about VMWare ESXi? Workstation, server?

[LukeStratton]

Thanks for the video. Did you ever find out which rule you have to enable in the firewall, instead of enabling all of them?

[gbTephlon]

As an FYI, cmdkey is the "command line version" of the "Credential Manager", which has been around in one form or another since Win2000, that I can remember.
I always did a Run-> control userpasswords2 to bring up the window, but as of Win7 (also true of Win8), it's easy enough to search "credentials" at the start menu and choose "Credential Manager".
The cmdkey command definitely comes in handy though during those times when you need to add temporary access through a script or batch file.

[PC-Addicts]

Thanks for the comment - hope the video helped.

[RemyDahl]

Thanks for putting this one up - I used your first video for my initial configuration, and then couldn't figure out how on earth to connect to it remotely (since I've set it up on a workgroup). Another great video!

[PC-Addicts]

Version 3. Remember, we are remoted into the Hyper-V server and using it's Powershell to run the New-VM cmdlet.

[PC-Addicts]

Thanks for the tip, but that was the first command I tried - it could never find it with any of my tests.. strange! Yes, please let me/us know how it goes!!!

[gaffers]

Kudos my friend! Exactly as in the video I am setting up HyperV 2012 Server (core) at home (for my own benefit) and connecting my Home PCs to manage it. Learning some good stuff tonight and 2 of your vids helped!

[PC-Addicts]

You are welcome. Try this: Enable-NetFirewallRule -DisplayGroup “Windows Remote Management” (check the comments section of the blog post for this topic on the PC-Addicts site - link is in the description for this video).

[PC-Addicts]

Wow - they had the same issues in the past? Wish they would have ironed them out by now. Thanks for the info!

[DickyBenfield]

Ahhh, I've done some basic scripts for remote execution, but I just wanted to run commands directly as if I were on the remote server console. Enter-PSSession looks like it is exactly what I wanted. Thanks again. I'll try that out tomorrow.

[JeffJohnson]

Great Video. Do you prefer Hyper V over VMware or it doesn't make a difference to you?

[PC-Addicts]

Thanks. Depends on what I will be setting the VM environment up for. If for a business I like VMWare ESXi. For playing around/testing, Hyper-V wouldn't be bad. I think I still prefer Virtualbox for my test environments though.