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Default password for Windows Server 2012 R2

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Saturday, October 14, 2017 3:12 PM

Hello,

I just downloaded the .vhd File and trying to login to machine.

What is the default username & password for Server 2012 R2 .

I tried pass@word1 & R2Preview!.

Regards,

Ankit Sethi

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Monday, October 16, 2017 5:40 AM

Hello Ankit,

Where did you download the VHD file? You should ask the username&password from the site, where you download the VHD file. There is no default username&password for Server 2012 R2.

If you can't get the credentials, you may consider to reset the password for the administrator account. 

I hope the following thread can help you for resetting the password.

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/68ab3e74-0f10-4559-8df9-1bf6bac7b071/how-change-lost-password-in-virtual-machine?forum=winserverhyperv

Best regards,

Andy Liu

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Monday, October 16, 2017 7:02 AM

Thanks Andy,

1. I downloaded from the official website of Microsoft on that particular page there is no option to ask a query or put comment.

2. I want to spin the instance in Cloud environment, so the link you shared is to reset the password once you are in the server, but I can not login to server even once.

Regards,

Ankit Sethi

Monday, October 16, 2017 7:47 AM

Hello Ankit,

If the Cloud environment is Azure, I think you can just reset the password by following the procedures in the article below.

/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/reset-rdp

Best regards,

Andy Liu

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Friday, August 17, 2018 4:56 PM

Hi Andy

I did similar download and trying to set it up in openstack environment. What is default login for administrator or cloud accounts ?