{"id":15058,"date":"2013-06-25T16:06:40","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T15:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=15058"},"modified":"2013-06-25T16:06:40","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T15:06:40","slug":"what-is-the-default-password-for-ws2012-r2-preview-vhd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=15058","title":{"rendered":"What Is The Default Password For WS2012 R2 Preview VHD?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just deployed a downloaded pre-installed VHD with Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview with the intention of using it for WDS in the lab \u2013 and deploy the rest of the WSSC 2012 R2 Preview lab.&#160; I tried to log in and \u2026 what is the password?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&lt;Blank&gt;<\/li>\n<li>Password<\/li>\n<li>Password00<\/li>\n<li>P@ssword<\/li>\n<li>P@ssword1<\/li>\n<li>Or any other variation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I checked the extracted folder and all I found was that by extracting the EXE I\u2019d agreed to donate body parts to MSFT executives, etc.&#160; Web searches were fruitless.&#160; I reached out to the Twitterverse and was told by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/edbaker1965\" target=\"_blank\">Ed Baker<\/a> (who spent a morning searching) that the password is actually:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">R2Preview!<\/p>\n<p> The password includes the exclamation mark.&#160; Make sure you change it afterwards <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-smile\" style=\"border-top-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-right-style: none\" alt=\"Smile\" src=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/wlEmoticon-smile21.png\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:41b7ee70-2f05-45a6-88a6-1d0399e2aa75\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\" style=\"float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Windows+Server+2012+R2\" rel=\"tag\">Windows Server 2012 R2<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just deployed a downloaded pre-installed VHD with Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview with the intention of using it for WDS in the lab \u2013 and deploy the rest of the WSSC 2012 R2 Preview lab.&#160; I tried to log in and \u2026 what is the password? It\u2019s not: &lt;Blank&gt; Password Password00 P@ssword P@ssword1 Or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=15058\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What Is The Default Password For WS2012 R2 Preview VHD?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[120],"class_list":["post-15058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-server","tag-windows-server-2012-r2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.8 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I just deployed a downloaded pre-installed VHD with Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview with the intention of using it for WDS in the lab \u2013 and deploy the rest of the WSSC 2012 R2 Preview lab. 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