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Hyper-V Enhanced session greyed out on Windows Server 2019 Gen 2 virtual machines

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I installed Windows Server 2019 recently as described here, but noticed that I couldn’t access Enhanced Session on any of my Hyper-V Gen 2 virtual machines. The setting was greyed out.

52141350_2041291892644887_37676974612676Enhanced session gives you a lot of nice features like copy and paste between host and virtual machine, and the ability to resize video, so I really wanted to be able to use it. At first I thought the reason it was missing was due to a missing driver or configuration version of my Gen 2 Hyper-V virtual machines, but it was not.

A quick look at the Hyper-V settings revealed the cause, by default the Enhanced Session Mode ability is not enabled.

Enhanced Session Mode Policy

You need to click on Hyper-V Settings (in the right pane of the Hyper-V manager), then select Enhanced Session Mode Policy, and configure it to Allow enhanced Session Mode as shown here.

52432240_2041297072644369_98018084483445After enabling this setting, I was able to use Enhanced session as expected !

cheers

niall

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