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Hyper-V Server 2016 - Local console screen resolution

Hello,

I have a brand new piece of hardware and Hyper-V Server 2016 installed - This is striped down "core style" free hypervisor o/s.

I have a screen attached to the physical server, a keyboard and a mouse.   This machine will be by my desk as a dev/testing machine and I'll want frequent access directly to the local console... the physical keyboard/mouse/screen.

The default screen resolution appears to be 1024x768, which is sort-of ok, but ideally I would like to get a few more things on screen.
I realise that the O/S only has a basic video driver installed and I'm not expecting miracles here...

Q.  How can increase the local console resolution be increased from 1024x768 so say 1280x1024 or even (if possible) to 1920x1080 ?
The solution will likely need to be commandline or 3rd party utility.

FYI, I do have vtultilies installed (paid license) but could not find any option to increase the local screen size.

Thanks!
--Paul
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100% perfect!  Thankyou
I have an EE article: Some Hyper-V Hardware and Software Best Practices that may be of some help.

Windows Server 2016 can be managed by PowerShell Remoting. There is really no reason to sit at a server console anymore.

Enter-PSSession -ComputerName 10.10.0.5 -Credential YOURHOST\administrator

RDP inbound is another way to manage at the server's "console".

Or set up RSAT on a Windows 10 machine. Note, for simplicity's sake it's best to have the host on a domain along with the machine RSAT is installed on.

We always install an Intel RMM, iDRAC Enterprise, or iLO Advanced setup in our servers so we can use the out-of-band KVM over IP to work with the actual console without having to sit in front of the server.