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Hyper-V Windows Provisioning Password Configuration

In a Hyper-V environment, you can set up things so that all users have the same credentials to access their Windows systems or you can let users choose their own passwords when submitting reservation requests. You specify which policy to use at the resource pool level.

If users are not allowed to choose their own password, issue the dpmutil set superuser command. This command stores the Windows administrator password in the database for later retrieval. For example:

dpmutil -set -superuser

The command prompts for credentials with administrative privileges.

The Reservation Manager retrieves the password when emails are sent to users notifying them that their systems are ready. The password that you specify overrides any password specified in the Hyper-V OS profile used to provision the Windows system.

If the Allow user to specify the Administrator password option is set on the resource pool, the person creating a reservation can input an Administrator password that is configured in the VM.

Any password specified in the Hyper-V OS profile is overridden.