RDP to Hyper-V Virtual Machine

I was troubled when I couldn't remote onto my shiny new Hyper-V VM. I guess this is more of a Windows Server thing but mucking around with Hyper-V is when I came across it.

I could remote onto both the host and VM from inside my own network. But not via an external connection. The ports were being redirected correctly but it wasn't having it.

It was Mr Miller that came to the rescue with knowledge of the magic check box.

Clicking on the Remote Desktop link reveals the properties page:

To make things work where they didn't before, untick the Allow connections only from computers running Remote Desktop with Network Level Authentication (recommended) check box.

They even have the cheek to say "(recommended)". Recommended to break my shit, I'm sure they mean.

Oddly, I only had to do this on the host and not the VM. This is presumably to do with the host having to share its network adapter with the VM and undoubtedly something I cba, and don't need to learn about.

fin.

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