Hyper-V: Remote Server Administration from Vista

If you are sick of double-hopping (remote desktoping to the Hyper-V server) to manage the virtual machines you have running, you can now install the “Hyper-V Remote Management Update for Windows Vista” feature by going here

• 32bit - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=BF909242-2125-4D06-A968-C8A3D75FF2AA&displaylang=en

• 64bit - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=88208468-0AD6-47DE-8580-085CBA42C0C2&displaylang=en

 

mstsc /console doesn’t work in Vista SP1

Good lord, why would they change this?

In Vista SP1, Microsoft disabled the ability to use the /console switch for logging onto the console session when using Remote Desktop.  The ‘fix’ is to use mstsc /admin

http://blogs.msdn.com/dancre/archive/2008/03/19/mstsc-console-is-now-admin-in-vista-sp1.aspx