NOTE: THIS POST DOES NOT COVER THE RSAT INSTALL
I have seen manage people over the years complain about how its not straight forward to manage a standalone hyper-v host and have seen many different guides on the alternative ways to “gain access” to the host. The solution I’m going to document in this post – personally i feel is a better way than creating additional user accounts or using HVConfig.
First we need to enable the WinRM Service
![](https://hypervlab.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/image-14.png)
Next we want to add the host to the trustedhosts file
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Now we need to configure the anonymous access
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From Component Services, Double Click on Computers
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Then Right Click on “My Computer” and select “Properties”
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From the Properties pain you want to select “COM Security”
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Then under “Access Permissions” select “Edit Limits…”
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Under the Security Limited, Scroll to the bottom to find “ANONYMOUS LOGON” and enable “Remote Access”
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Now we can go to Server Manager and add the new Hyper-V Host
From Server Manager right click on “Manage” which can be location on the top right and select “Add Server”
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Select the “DNS Tab” and enter the IP Address of the server
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Click the “Right Arrow” and then click “Ok” then go back to “All Servers” You will see the new hyper-v server with an kerberos target error
![](https://hypervlab.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/image-26-1024x24.png)
This error is due to the server not having any credentials authenticated with it. NB: this would be different under a domain scenario
To authenticate with the server, right click and select “Manage As …”
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You will be prompted to enter your credential for the server.
Remember: you must add the IP Address or hostname of the server before the \Administrator
![](https://hypervlab.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/image-28.png)
Once the authentication process has complete your server will show as “Online”
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Finally right click on the Server, Click Hyper-V Manager and connect by IP address
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I’m getting access denied when I try this. Any ideas?
When you are trying to connect to your Hyper-V Host are you adding the IP address followed by administrator? Example: 192.168.1.100\Administrator