Sunday 5 May 2013

Microsoft Evaluation VHD Administrator Password

Recently decided to use the evaluation VHD of 2008 R2 I downloaded from Microsoft .. but what was the password.

Goggled the file name …

“windows server 2008 r2 enterprise evaluation (full edition)”

… and found the password was Pass@word1.

It was then I remembered the problems I had with that password in the past.

The VM was created using the US local & keyboard settings if you are using a UK keyboard you have to type

Pass”word1

2 comments:

  1. Thanks Nigel, You just saved me a lot of grief!

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  2. Thanks for posting this observation, I was typing slowly and carefully, but still starting to go a bit crazy.
    It's kind of obvious when you think about it - but don't we all miss the obvious!

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