• IT Systems Engineering

    VM Additions not detected?

    From time to time, I run into this issue with our Hyper-V environment. No matter how many times I upgrade the VM additions, SCVMM still is not able to detect it. It always ends up saying “not detected”. Eventually I noticed that one of the the 6 Hyper-V related services which are usually running on the VM was having some trouble – the heartbeat service. Hmmm…that makes sense! If I tried to start this service, I got the following error: Error 1083: The executable program that this service is configured to run in does not implement the service.   While doing some searching on the net, I found out the…