In this article, we will walk you through the procedure of initial configuration of your Hyper-V 2019 Server. There are few options that we will configure including workgroup name, computer name, remote management, remote desktop, Windows updates, and network settings. After you successfully deployed Hyper-V 2019 Server you will see the screen as shown on the screenshot below. From this point, we will start our configuration. So, let’s start from Workgroup Name.

Change Domain/Workgroup Name

In our case, we are not using Domain infrastructure (Active Directory Domain Services), but Workgroup. According to that, we will need to join our Hyper-V 2019 to existing Workgroup which is called APPUALS. In order to change settings, please follow the procedure below:

Change Computer Name:

Configure Remote Management:

Configure Windows Update Settings:

Download ad Install Updates:

Configure Remote Desktop:

Would you like to remotely access your Hyper-V? If so, you would need to activate Remote Desktop by following the procedure below: In our example, we will choose the first option by typing 1.

Configure Network Settings:

In order to communicate with the rest of the network, our Hyper-V 2019 Server has to be available on the network. We are using IP Class C Network 192.168.10.0; subnet mask 255.255.255.0. According to the mentioned network segment, we will configure Hyper-V 2019 to be available on 192.168.10.100 address. In the next article, we will connect to the Hyper-V 2019 server by using Hyper-V Manager that is installed on Windows 10 Professional.

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