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A long time ago, I did a post about how to allow non-Administrative users to control Hyper-V. Then I did a post that showed you how to script this whole configuration. Finally, I did a post that showed you how to setup a “Hyper-V Administrators” group to make the whole process easier.
Well, time has passed and we have made things significantly easier for you here.
With Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 you will now find that the Hyper-V Administrators group is already present:
All you need to do these days is to add your user account to the Hyper-V Administrators account, and you can do everything with Hyper-V without having to be a local administrator on the system.
Cheers,
Ben
Anonymous
June 11, 2014
While it might be easier it's just not granular enough.
AzMan provided that, VMM solves most of it as well, but the feature we need in our company, which is Enhanced Session mode is not supported by VMM. Which leaves us with two options, add everyone to the Hyper-V Administrators group (which is very much overkill) and use VMConnect or use VMM/App Controller console and lose the ability to copy/paste... . Hopefully this will be solved in a future release.
Anonymous
March 03, 2015
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Anonymous
June 14, 2015
We tried this and it doesn't work.
We use a 2 node Windows server 2012R2 Hyper-v cluster and user workstation is windows 8.1.
We added the standard domain user account to the local "Hyper-V Administrators" group on both servers and rebooted the servers and the user's workstation but the error is "you do not have administrative permissions on this cluster." when you try to connect using MMC with FCM on the user's workstation.
Same issue as this post social.technet.microsoft.com/.../problem-with-granting-remote-access-to-hyperv-manager
and they claim Microsoft say this problem/bug/feature will not be fixed?
So do we have to just make the user a local admin on the Hyper-V server or should this feature work? Is there something else we need to bear in mind?
Thanks
Anonymous
August 20, 2015
Hi.
Thanks for your post. When we used Windows 8.1, the group was present and worked well. Unfortunately, in Windows 10 the Hyper-V Administrators group doens't exist anymore.
Why was the group removed, and how can I get it back?
Thank you and best regards,
David
Anonymous
November 05, 2015
Hello,
on windows 10 education the powershell script doesn't work and the Hyper-V Adminstators Group didn't exists. On a windows 8.1 machine there is a Hyper-V Administartors Groups. So how can we allow non-Adminstrator control Hyper-V under windows 10 education???
Anonymous
January 26, 2016
David / Monk,
We have tracked down an issue that can cause the group to be missing when you upgrade from one Windows edition to another. We are working on a fix right now, unfortunately there are no work arounds at this point in time.
Anonymous
March 03, 2016
Unfortunately the functionality I need was removed in 2012, to be able to allow users to open Hyper-V Manager console, stop, start and connect to VM's but not be able to alter any of the attributes.Shame really, 2008 allowed you to do this
Anonymous
December 13, 2016
Hi Ben and others.My environment is WS2016 / W10 Pro.imho there is a serious usability issue in this area. Or course, we can give "Hyper-V Admin" rights to some accounts without giving them upper rights. But, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, if those accounts have only "Hyper-V admin" rights, they won't be able to use Hyper-V Manager because they don't have enough privileges to run the mmc.Let's take an example. My people are Java software developers. They work in a full Java environment, Eclipse, Git, etc. For some purposes, they run some Hyper-V VMs on their PCs. But very few of them are really the PS skills necessary to drive the VMs. What I would expect is to be able to add them in the "Hyper-V Admin" group and no more. They would have enough rights to run Hyper-V Manager and drive their VMs through some nice graphic tools. And AFAIK, this is not possible without given them the full "Admin" rights on their computers.And this is even worse if you run an Hyper-V Server and want your people to drive their VMs from their local Hyper-V Manager, because in such case, you must give them full Admin rights not only on their workstations but also on the server. This is bad, really bad.
Anonymous
December 19, 2016
Why not having a Group Hyper-V-Guest-Adminstrators. Those users have no rights on Hyper-V-Host but can access the Hyper-V-Guests through vmconnect. That would be a wonderful feauture for admistration of Linux-guests by a consultant. Regards Timo
Anonymous
June 02, 2017
Fresh installation Windows 10 Version 1703 Build 15063.332User account bellongs to Hyper-V admins group.Every time the user try to open Hyper-V Management Console, it requests admin credential.
Anonymous
October 18, 2017
Same as Alisson above. Brand new laptop, Win 10 Pro, version 1703.The "Hyper-V Administrators " local group DOES exist in my case, but adding my regular, non-admin user account to it doesn't allow me to connect to the local Hyper-V server."You do not have the required permission to complete this task."
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