Rename a Server Core Install or Hyper-V Host Computer
I recently needed to rename a Hyper-V server (which is essentially a server core install of Windows Server 2008 R2). It took so doing, but I found the command. [code]Netdom renamecomputer oldname /newname:newname /userd:someuser /passwordd:*[/code] Replace the computer names with valid ones and a domain admin user, and the command will prompt for your password....
Import Hyper-V Machine Without Export File
Last week I had a client with a crashed hard drive on their Hyper-V server. Coming from a physical server world, they had performed file-level backups of all the virtual machines and virtual machine files on the system. Expecting to just recover the files to the new RAID array and use the “Import virtual machine”...