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Installing language on Windows fail

I am trying to install a language as a Display language in Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB v1607. When I go to Control Panel -> Language and clicking "Download and install language pack". It starts to download the language pack but when it…

Windows 10
Windows 10
A Microsoft operating system that runs on personal computers and tablets.
11,027 questions
asked 2020-07-15T23:55:53.197+00:00
Erik512 1 Reputation point
answered 2020-07-17T09:12:52.86+00:00
Erik512 1 Reputation point
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Windows Server 2019 - IE11 WebForm_DoPostBackWithOptions error

I have an application running .NET Framework 4.7.2 which we have recently started migrating onto Windows Server 2019 servers. We have started receiving reports of issues in Internet Explorer 11 having issues with controls (which we can replicate). Some…

Windows Server 2019
Windows Server 2019
A Microsoft server operating system that supports enterprise-level management updated to data storage.
3,557 questions
asked 2020-07-16T12:19:38.75+00:00
Paul Barnes 1 Reputation point
answered 2020-07-17T07:37:14.6+00:00
Teemo Tang 11,366 Reputation points
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How to exit full screen of MCI?

Cannot exit full screen after calling mciSendString("play movie fullscreen",NULL,0,NULL). ESC and F11 don't work. Please help.

Windows API - Win32
Windows API - Win32
A core set of Windows application programming interfaces (APIs) for desktop and server applications. Previously known as Win32 API.
2,491 questions
asked 2020-07-15T08:59:47.703+00:00
Soha 1 Reputation point
commented 2020-07-17T03:41:48.787+00:00
Rita Han - MSFT 2,161 Reputation points
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Change color of Remote Desktop App in Windows 10

Hi there, I installed remote desktop app in Windows to connect to remote resources. After I installed I see its in dark color. Is there a way we can change the color of that application alone in Windows 10 v 1909. I also tried to update in settings, I…

Hyper-V
Hyper-V
A Windows technology providing a hypervisor-based virtualization solution enabling customers to consolidate workloads onto a single server.
2,606 questions
asked 2020-07-16T08:24:43.467+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
accepted 2020-07-17T02:35:32.097+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

hyper-v greyed out. hyper-v says no SLAT. coreinfo say SLAT supported.

I have a Dell Optiplex 780 (Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9650 @ 3.00GHz) running Windows 10 pro. When I try to enable virtualization (hyper-v setup) the hyper-v>hyperv platform>hyper-v hypervisor is greyed out. The systeminfo.exe shows two of…

Hyper-V
Hyper-V
A Windows technology providing a hypervisor-based virtualization solution enabling customers to consolidate workloads onto a single server.
2,606 questions
asked 2020-07-16T08:22:49.11+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
accepted 2020-07-17T02:35:22.21+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Hyper-V showing much higher memory demand than displayed in guest OS

I have enabled dynamic memory allocation on my VMs recently, and as the title suggests, I'm very confused with the "memory demand" value shown in Hyper-V Manager. For example, I have an Ubuntu 18.04.1LTS guest created using quick create (so…

Hyper-V
Hyper-V
A Windows technology providing a hypervisor-based virtualization solution enabling customers to consolidate workloads onto a single server.
2,606 questions
asked 2020-07-16T08:22:01.223+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
accepted 2020-07-17T02:35:05.283+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

For Windows 10 Pro and up, will there soon be a replacement for RemoteFX in Hyper-V?

Hello, I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this particular question, but I noticed that RemoteFX has been somewhat deprecated in recent Windows 10 updates, as you cannot attach a RemoteFX video adapter to Hyper-V virtual machines anymore. It…

Hyper-V
Hyper-V
A Windows technology providing a hypervisor-based virtualization solution enabling customers to consolidate workloads onto a single server.
2,606 questions
asked 2020-07-16T08:19:26.733+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
accepted 2020-07-17T02:34:52.17+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

I am looking for the best way to use Hyper-V on Windows 10 with only wireless Network Adapter connected.

So, I have read a few posts about Hyper-V and wireless networking in Windows 10, however, the posts are dated, so I want to know what is the latest tried and true way to use Hyper-V in Windows 10 1809++ and one built in wireless network adapter, or along…

Hyper-V
Hyper-V
A Windows technology providing a hypervisor-based virtualization solution enabling customers to consolidate workloads onto a single server.
2,606 questions
asked 2020-07-16T08:18:34.593+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
accepted 2020-07-17T02:34:41.713+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
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What these devices are supposed to do? Device Firmware, System Firmware, Microsoft Device Association Root Enumerator, Microsoft UEFI-Compliant System

I am working on a UEFI based bare-metal Hypervisor that supports boot and reboot of Windows running as a guest alongside RTOS/Linux. The complete UEFI (built from EDK2 repo on github) is re-run inside guest context to provide boot services to Windows…

Hyper-V
Hyper-V
A Windows technology providing a hypervisor-based virtualization solution enabling customers to consolidate workloads onto a single server.
2,606 questions
asked 2020-07-16T08:17:44.113+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
accepted 2020-07-17T02:34:32.06+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Hyper-V vmconnect can't connect to virtual machines - Windows 10 1809 and 1903

Hi everyone I am having troubles with making the Hyper-V VM hosting work properly on my Windows 10 Pro 1903 laptop. The problems actually appeared while the machine was using Windows 10 1809. More precisely: can't access the VM console at all and…

Hyper-V
Hyper-V
A Windows technology providing a hypervisor-based virtualization solution enabling customers to consolidate workloads onto a single server.
2,606 questions
asked 2020-07-16T08:16:06.647+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
accepted 2020-07-17T02:34:21.96+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Create New V-LAN Interface in Hyper-V

Dears, We have four Hyper-Visor servers using for VDI system, currently we have configured Hyper-V V-LAN lets say in range 10.10.X.100 and from the network team they disabled internet in this range to all users which are using VDI system. The new…

Hyper-V
Hyper-V
A Windows technology providing a hypervisor-based virtualization solution enabling customers to consolidate workloads onto a single server.
2,606 questions
asked 2020-07-16T08:08:38.793+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
accepted 2020-07-17T02:33:46.19+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

smart paging

Hello Can you please tell me in which name smart paging file does exists? And if I have 16 GB RAM on HyperV server then what will be size of smart paging? Thread source link:…

Hyper-V
Hyper-V
A Windows technology providing a hypervisor-based virtualization solution enabling customers to consolidate workloads onto a single server.
2,606 questions
asked 2020-07-16T08:07:53.757+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
accepted 2020-07-17T02:33:32.637+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

NAT virtual switch on OS 2016 - hyperv

Hi guys. We have noticed that on HYPERV on OS 2016 there is a nat virtual switch. This is probably something new in OS 2016 hyper-v? Deleting it throws an error. Thread source link:…

Hyper-V
Hyper-V
A Windows technology providing a hypervisor-based virtualization solution enabling customers to consolidate workloads onto a single server.
2,606 questions
asked 2020-07-16T08:07:08.683+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
accepted 2020-07-17T02:33:11.737+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

How to access Guest PC folder from Host?

Hi Team, How to access Guest PC folder from Host? Is this possible? If yes, please let me know how to. Thread source link:…

Hyper-V
Hyper-V
A Windows technology providing a hypervisor-based virtualization solution enabling customers to consolidate workloads onto a single server.
2,606 questions
asked 2020-07-16T08:05:17.21+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
accepted 2020-07-17T02:33:02.813+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Move VMs from one cluster to another cluster in different forest and domain

Hi all I am working on a project with special requirement and need suggestions on how to achieve it. Following is current configuration Hyper-V Infrastructure A Domain: aa.co No of Hyper-V hosts: 3 Failover Cluster Configured for VMs: Yes…

Hyper-V
Hyper-V
A Windows technology providing a hypervisor-based virtualization solution enabling customers to consolidate workloads onto a single server.
2,606 questions
asked 2020-07-16T08:04:30.367+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
accepted 2020-07-17T02:32:51.817+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

VLANs in Hyper-V nested virtualization possible?

Hello, I have a little test environment using nested virtualization in Windows Server 2019 wehre I need to use VLANs. The environment consists of: pHost > a physical server with Hyper-V role vHostSwitch > a private virtual switch on…

Hyper-V
Hyper-V
A Windows technology providing a hypervisor-based virtualization solution enabling customers to consolidate workloads onto a single server.
2,606 questions
asked 2020-07-16T08:03:43.267+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
accepted 2020-07-17T02:28:54.537+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Virtual switch on network bridge

Good day, I have network bridge made with 2 ethernet adapters on my Windows 2012r2 server. Am I able to do virtual switch based on network bridge? Right now I can choose only single network adapter while switch creating :< Thread source link:…

Hyper-V
Hyper-V
A Windows technology providing a hypervisor-based virtualization solution enabling customers to consolidate workloads onto a single server.
2,606 questions
asked 2020-07-16T08:02:57.643+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
accepted 2020-07-17T02:19:26.813+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Hyper-V Storage QoS behaviour

Hi Together I have a Hyper-V Storage QoS Policy (Dedicated) configured and applied to a VM with several disks attached -> same Policy applied to all disks of this VM. My QoS Policy Limit: Max IOPS 50'000, Min IOPS 0 For the sake of clarity:…

Hyper-V
Hyper-V
A Windows technology providing a hypervisor-based virtualization solution enabling customers to consolidate workloads onto a single server.
2,606 questions
asked 2020-07-16T08:00:35.45+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
accepted 2020-07-17T02:17:07.537+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Virtual Switch and physical NIC in team

Hi all, as far as I know, NIC associated with external virtual switch are "dedicated" to virtual machine communication , unless they are flagged as "shared". Now, I have two physical NIC in team. When I try to create an external…

Hyper-V
Hyper-V
A Windows technology providing a hypervisor-based virtualization solution enabling customers to consolidate workloads onto a single server.
2,606 questions
asked 2020-07-16T07:59:31.223+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
accepted 2020-07-17T02:16:59.15+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Windows Server 2016 Backup Scheduling Error

I am trying to reestablish a schedule for backing up. Using the wizard, entering all the fields in the various steps, and clicking 'Finish", I am receiving the error message "Cannot create a file when that file already exists". I found a…

Windows Server Backup
Windows Server Backup
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Backup: A duplicate copy of a program, a disk, or data, made either for archiving purposes or for safeguarding valuable files from loss should the active copy be damaged or destroyed.
463 questions
asked 2020-07-16T07:42:06.897+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
accepted 2020-07-17T02:14:00.69+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points