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Enable all integration services in virtual machines

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Applies to: Windows Server 2022, Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2016

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Property Details
Operating System Windows Server 2016
Product/Feature Hyper-V
Severity Warning
Category Configuration

In the following sections, italics indicates UI text that appears in the Best Practices Analyzer tool for this issue.

Issue

One or more integration services are disabled or not working in a virtual machine.

Impact

The service or integration feature may not operate correctly for the following virtual machines:

<list of virtual machine names>

Resolution

Use the Services snap-in or sc config command-line tool to verify that the service is configured to start automatically and is not stopped.

To configure how a service is started using the Services snap-in

  1. Use Remote Desktop Services or Virtual Machine Connection to connect to the virtual machine and log on to the guest operating system.

  2. Open Services. (Click Start, click in the Start Search box, type services.msc, and then press ENTER.)

  3. In the details pane, right-click the service that you want to configure, and then click Properties.

  4. On the General tab, in Startup type, click Automatic.

To configure how a service is started using SC Config

  1. Open Windows PowerShell. (From the desktop, click Start and start typing Windows PowerShell.)

  2. Right-click Windows PowerShell and click Run as administrator.

  3. Replace <service-name> with the name of the service, then type:

    sc config <service-name> start=auto