The solution that I found was from Jörgen Nilsson, who wrote an excellent step-by-step blog linked below.

https://ccmexec.com/2015/09/customizing-the-windows-10-start-menu-and-add-ie-shortcut-during-osd/#comments

KB3119208 – Recommended antivirus exclusions for System Center Virtual Machine Manager and managed hosts(https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3119208)

KB3066343 - How to install, remove, or verify update rollups for Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2 (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3066343)

As David mentioned in his post about the New VM Role option, customer feedback has been very important to us here on the Virtual Machine Manager team. And with that said, we opened VMM User Voice to the public last month and we have seen a great turn around and are reviewing every idea carefully. For example, a recent response from the VMM team was provided for the suggestion titled “End-to-End Hyper-V and Cluster Management in the SCVMM Console”. In this case we looked into the idea but due to the large scope, we had to break it into the top four items that the voters were asking for.

Please take a look using the link above and vote on them. If you have an idea that you don’t see, please add it in User Voice as a new idea!

To proceed further, I also thought it might be helpful to provide a FAQ describing how to start User Voice and how the VMM team will respond:

FAQ:

Q: How do I begin with VMM User Voice?

1. Go to VMM User Voice
2. Create a user account if you don’t already have one. Enter your contact information in case we need to ask more questions directly). 
3. Add your voice! (I wish… )

or

4. Cast a vote for an idea you like. You get 10 votes total! 

Q: What ideas will be most considered by the VMM Product Team? 

• Ideas with the highest votes will be considered most heavily. 
• Clear and actionable idea will be reviewed the most quickly.

Caution: Do not create a single idea with multiple ideas within it. We need to keep each idea separate in order to understand the priorities. Please make sure each is a separate idea so we can clearly see and vote on each. If there are single submissions that contain a large number of separate ideas we may have to close the idea so that each can be considered separately.

Q: How does the VMM Team respond to the ideas?

Once the VMM Product Team has reviewed the idea, the idea status will change. We provide an email notification to voters and place responses on the User Voice site: VMM Product Team Response

Note: The "Under Review" status means that the VMM Product Team is reviewing the idea. It does not guarantee any deliverables.

Q: When do votes get released?

Each votes get released when the idea is closed. (decline or completed)

Every idea and every vote counts!! We are aggressively listening so please provide FEEDBACK!!

Keiko Harada | Program Manager | Microsoft

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• convert physical machines and disks to Hyper-V hosts

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When using Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 to perform a Physical-to-Virtual conversion (P2V), the following error message appears during the Scan System phase.

Error (2910)
VMM does not have appropriate permissions to access the resource on the %server.
Access is denied (0x80070005)

Recommended Action
Ensure that Virtual Machine Manager has the appropriate rights to perform this action.
Additional Information: The Source computer is the machine intended to be virtualized in the P2V conversion.

Cause

This failure is typically caused by either of the following conditions:

•  The credentials provided during the P2V wizard is not a member of the local ‘Administrators’ group on the Source computer.

•  The Source computer does not allow remote WMI calls to the CIMV2 namespace for the credentials entered during the P2V wizard.

Resolution

To resolve the problem, follow these steps:

1.    Make sure that the account used during the P2V wizard is a member of the local ‘Administrators’ group on the Source computer. Note Pay particular attention to this if the SCVMM server and Source computer are in different domains.

2.    During the Scan System phase of the P2V conversion, SCVMM makes WMI calls to the CIMV2 namespace on the Source computer to pull basic system information. If these WMI calls fail, then the P2V conversion will also fail. To verify WMI connectivity to the CIMV2 namespace on the Source computer, perform the following actions from the SCVMM server:

a.       Click Start , point to Run and type " WBEMtest" (without the quotes) in the Open box and click OK . This will open the WBEMtest window.

b.      Click Connect in the upper right hand corner.

c.       Now, connect to the CIMV2 namespace on the Source computer.

Example: \\Source\ROOT\CIMV2

                Note Be sure to use the name of your Source computer.

d.      Then click Connect to complete the connection. This should connect without any errors displayed.

e.      Just to confirm access to a sample object, select Open Class and type Win32_PhysicalMemory

f.        You should see objects populate in the Object Editor window. The actual content returned is not as important as the fact that a remote connection to the CIMV2 namespace was established.

3.       Open wmimgmt.msc and verify connectivity to the Local computer and also check the 'Remote Enable' permissions.

a.       Click Start , point to Run and type wmimgmt.msc and click OK . This will open the WMI Control (Local).

b.      Right click on the WMI Control (Local) node and select Properties .

c.       Select the Security tab, highlight Root and then open security by clicking the Security button in the lower right.

d.      Select "Remote Enable" permission for Everyone or the specific user account that you want to grant this permission to.

e.      This action does not require a reboot.

4.       Open dcomcnfg and verify that DCOM is running and also check the 'Remote Activation' permission.

a.       Click Start , point to Run and type dcomcnfg and click OK . This will open the Component Services snap-in.|

b.      Expand Component Service , then Computers , then My Computer . If My Computer has a red down arrow mark, it means that the service is not running. It will need to be started.

c.       Right click on My Computer and select Properties and select the COM Security tab.

d.      Click Edit Limits under the Launch and Activation Permissions section.

e.      For the Everyone user give the "Remote Activation" permission or add the specific user account that you want to grant this permission to.

Note The following error message may occur if the appropriate WMI permission is not granted to the user:
Access Denied" with Error Code: 0x80041003

5.       This problem can also occur if the OLE registry key is missing or has the incorrect value on the Source computer.

a.       Start Registry Editor.

b.      Locate the following path:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\OLE

c.       This key should have a REG_SZ value EnableDCOM and a value of Y.

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· Self-Service portal: To empower consumers of IT to request and provision infrastructure for their apps/services

· Partner Extensibility: Enable partners to expose their unique hardware capabilities through familiar Microsoft scripting technologies while providing variety and flexibility to IT

I'm sure that everyone has heard of these new technologies being introduced in R2SP1 for Windows 2008.  But do you now what they really mean?  Here are some basic definitions and excellent blogs about each for your reading pleasure.

Hyper-V Dynamic Memory

So, what is Dynamic Memory? At a high level, Hyper-V Dynamic Memory is a memory management enhancement for Hyper-V designed for production use that enables customers to achieve higher consolidation/VM density ratios.  With Hyper-V Dynamic Memory, Hyper-V will enable greater virtual machine density suitable for servers and VDI deployments.

RemoteFX

With Microsoft RemoteFX, users will be able to work remotely in a Windows Aero desktop environment, watch full-motion video, enjoy Silverlight animations, and run 3D applications within a Hyper-V VM – all with the fidelity of a local-like performance.

Hyper-V Dynamic Memory

Part 1: https://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2010/03/18/dynamic-memory-coming-to-hyper-v.aspx

Part 2: https://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2010/03/25/dynamic-memory-coming-to-hyper-v-part-2.aspx

Part 3: https://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2010/04/07/dynamic-memory-coming-to-hyper-v-part-3.aspx

Part 4: https://blogs.technet.com/b/virtualization/archive/2010/04/21/dynamic-memory-coming-to-hyper-v-part-4.aspx

Part 5: https://blogs.technet.com/b/virtualization/archive/2010/05/20/dynamic-memory-coming-to-hyper-v-part-5.aspx

Part 6: https://blogs.technet.com/b/virtualization/archive/2010/07/12/dynamic-memory-coming-to-hyper-v-part-6.aspx

* Where "%Domain\1stUser% is the current owner and "%Domain\2ndUser% is the desired owner

Get-VM -VMMServer "%YourVMMServername%" | where {$_.Owner -eq "%Domain\1stUser%"} | Set-VM -Owner "%Domain\2ndUser%"

Also be sure and check out the VMM08R2 Cmdlet Reference.  It is a great doc to read to learn about lots of cool tricks like this using Powershell to manage your VMM environment. Especially if you're one of those scripting guys :-)