Windows 10: on a VM creating W2K19 server as workstation - working well

Hi folks

playing around with these servers is actually quite addictive and great for "wasting time" -- apart from being also a great learning tool on how these things are managed etc they work great as a desktop workstation !!!

Gave up on W2k22 server as workstation - too many problems

Got W2k19 server working though as a VM - it's really efficient IMO certainly compared with W10 HOME and still better than W10 PRO -- also no networking problems whatsoever !!!

1) changed admin user name (administrator) to my user name
2) got rid of alt-ctrl-del key for logon
3) got rid of "nag screen" when you reboot the system
4) disabled the "maintain server app " at start up
5) sound working fine (just enable the service)
6) changed the password enforcement so you can use any (or none)
7) installed manually some themes for better desktop -- Ms store not available for this server so manually install themes
8) allowed installs from anywhere
9) enabled RDP
10) enabled SMB1 -- needed to access some boxes on my LAN
11) installed filezilla, office 2019, project pro and visio

Still to do -- install a VM on this VM to test 2nd level VM !! and try language packs. I'll see if I can get a HYPER-V VM running on this VM later.

Only snag so far - not really a snag -- Macrium won't install unless you buy the server version --too expensive so as it's a VM I just save the VM files.





Note though the bootable stand alone iso works - create it on W10 and then set as the boot device on the W2K19 server VM to copy / image disks.

Cheers
jimbo

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