Installing RSAT tools on Windows 7

Hello Everyone,

Before I went on with the Exchange server 2010 install, i wanted to manage the hyper-v which was installed on my desktop through laptop (windows 7), this is possible.

After some googling, i found out that there is something called RSAT which is "Remote Server Administrator Tools" , this package has many other tools within it and one of them is the "Hyper-V Manager" so that is what we want, you can download this package from below link:

DOWNLOAD LINK:

After that, install the package, once that is complete.

1. Go to Control panel, then click on 'Program & Features' , which will bring up the below screenshot:

Select the Hyper-V tools and then install the features.

Once the setup finishes, you should now have the Hyper-V Manager installed on your machine.

 You can fire up Hyper-V and then try to connect to the Hyper-V server, but stop right there, i am sure it is not going to work.

There needs to be a lot answered before this will work.

For example, in my scenario, both of my machines are part of a workgroup. 

I was not able to ping my Windows 2008 r2 desktop machine by the DNS name which (w2k8r2), well, we can easily fix that by editing the hosts files in c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file. 

Add a entry for the server which is running the hyper-v role.

NOTE: In Windows 7 you may not able to able to edit the hosts file directly, check this MS KB for the workaround.

Now you should be able to ping that machine by the name from the client machine.

You think we are good? :) , well no, looks like it is going to take a lot more than that, to really have this working, a lot of configs needs to be in place , i googled around and then finally i found John Howard's blog which exactly details is this, and brilliantly John has already helped everyone out there to solve this easily, he already came up with a script to automate this stuff and save a lot of time for all of us.

You can check here for the info on how to get it configured from John's blog

and vola, i finally have my hyper-v setup on windows 7 desktop. 

thanks you everyone for reading, please comment if you have any questions or if you liked the article.


thanks
Thiyagu