When you have multiple (or even one) virtual machines hosted on a server, you should take steps to ensure recovery in the event your host server reboots or crashes resulting in the virtual server services restarting.

First, create a regular user account that you will use to start the servers. This account should have limited privileges and will need to be assigned to rights. At the time of this writing, the directions provided by Microsoft do cover quite all of the steps and permissions required. I have summarized the entire process below.

I run Gallery 2 for my picture gallery, and recently decided it was time to lock her down. What I have done follows.