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Allowing non-Administrators to control Hyper-V–Updated

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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:

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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

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  • 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
      February 03, 2016
      Ben,The Groups missing isn't new - and has been "fixed before"!https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2850661Alas performing an "inplace upgrade" of Win10 Pro to Win 10 Pro (yes same edition) fixes this for most groups except the 'Hyper-V Administrators group' Now if I could do a clean re-install of Windows 10 Pro that would be something - but that's not even possible due to another bug that means you end up with Windows 10 Home (and a 30 minute chat with support to get Pro), which results in an usable install...
    • Anonymous
      March 11, 2016
      Hi Ben,any news on that fix? I experienced this on my brand new Windows 10 machine, which I primarily bought to use the Visual Studio Android emulator with Hyper-V. Unfortunately this machine came with Windows 10 Home edition, so I had to upgrade it... and ran in exactly that Hyper-V problem.I really would appreciate a quick solution for that.Regards Steffen
      • Anonymous
        April 01, 2016
        Steffen,Did you find a work around for this issue? I believe I have the same issue.Cheers,Kym
    • Anonymous
      April 01, 2016
      I think I have found this same issue myself. Upgraded from Win10 Home to Professional and discovered I have no HyperV Admin group. Is there any further information for a fix, regarding this?
      • Anonymous
        April 17, 2016
        Any updates on this? I just installed Windows 10 Enterprise on a new disk and I don't have the Hyper-V Administrators group after installing the Hyper-V feature. Visual Studio Android Emulator fails to launch with Unable to add user to the Hyper-V Administrators group. Exit code 2220.
        • Anonymous
          June 08, 2016
          Any news?I upgraded to windows pro solely to use hyper-v. Ridiculous that one can't create a 'magic' user group oneself. Effectively makes my pc using windows useless for development work.
    • Anonymous
      April 26, 2016
      Ben,I just got a new Lenovo T460. I enabled Hyper-V and installed Visual Studio 2015 and Xamarin. I get the same error and there is no Hyper-V Administrators group on my machine. I do have other Hyper-V VMs that run fine, so I am sure Hyper-V is working correctly. I ordered the machine with Win10 Pro (I never switched editions) and I'm sure many other devs will be doing the same. I just wanted you to be aware that it is not only caused by switching editions.Thanks,Paul
    • Anonymous
      May 26, 2016
      Having this issue too, but this machine was never upgraded from a prior OS. Straight from factory x1 Carbon 2016 with Win 10 pre-installed. No Hyper-V Admins group. Always on Win 10 Pro.
    • Anonymous
      July 07, 2016
      I have exactly the same issue, when I upgrade to Windows 10 Education. Any updates on this issue?
      • Anonymous
        July 16, 2016
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  • 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."

    • Anonymous
      October 18, 2017
      Sorry, nevermind. Working after a full reboot... restarting the Hyper-V services wasn't enough.