What's new in Hyper-V Remote Management Configuration Utility 1.08
Feb 18, 2014- Adds support for Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 RTM
New in Hyper-V Remote Management Configuration Utility 1.07 (Feb 18, 2014)
- Support for Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview (experimental)
- Deprecation of virtualization namespace and azman operations for above OS's
- Fixed bug where connecting to the wrong server namespace
- Fixed bug during test phase looking at local OS, not the remote OS. Thanks Chris D for reporting
- Checks for non-FQDN in /add and /remove in the domain case. Thanks Christophe P for reporting
- Finally brought the server validation to client up to scratch (finally! A long outstanding change)
- Bit of rework on the client validation to server
New in Hyper-V Remote Management Configuration Utility 1.06 (Feb 18, 2014)
- Check local groups as these don't work (domain joined server only)
- Detect if using an IP address on /target option
- Dumps the SKU (Product Name)
- Couple of more reasons for test 7 failing on the client added as steps to consider
- Added option /DA:Enable|Disable to allow Hyper-V Manager to work through Direct Access
- Dumping client firewall rules indicates if not compatible with DA as well.
- Output draining in cmdkey output (consolidated with IPConfig function)
- Added IPv6 pings
- Added IPv4 & IPv6 tracerts to detemine what routers are on the path
- Checks for hotfixes (R2). Current as at release date
- Fixed typo which said hvremote /anondcom:enable rather than :grant (thanks Greig Sheridan)
- Partial support for 2008 R2 SP1 (not yet released)
- Refactoring for multiple operating system support
- Made it work on Windows 7 Professional (astonishing no-one found this previously!)
- Added support for Windows 8/Windows Server 2012 using simple authorisation
- Note only local accounts and domain accounts have been verified. NOT Microsoft accounts.
- Better testing all round, especially client side, plus querying of remote machine
- Removed the redundant MMC and WMI firewalll configuration
- Detect SCVMM 2012
- Added the /explicit option for force downlevel behaviour on 8/2012
- Refactored lots of functionality to remove a lot of redundant code
- Checking of DA compatibility (but not perfect for Win7)
- Fixes Client Hyper-V setup (8) where ACLs missing to permit remote management
- Fixes Server Hyper-V setup (2012) ACL for CIMv2 namespace
- Made it much easier if I need to add Windows 8 "next" support in the future.
- Many, many other smaller changes, typos, better formatting and so on. Windiff is very colourful