Server 2012 St R2 Hyper-V guest OS license Key?

Hello!
Question, we have a new 2012 Standard R2 server, and are installing hyper-V on this.
Do i use the same server 2012 DVD and License key on the guest OS?
Thank you in advance.
Aksel

For the vOSE (that is 2 in a standard deployment) you would use the same key for those VM´s
/regards
Niklas

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I just freshly installed a guest OS Windows 2012R2 on a Hyper-V 2012R2 server. Installed lots of updates and did many reboots, after that I installed the AD component. Couple of days later I'm having trouble with a RemoteDesktop server joining the domain.
After some research I see in the DNS log the following message:
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User: N/A
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Source: DNS
Catagory: None
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Type: Information
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Computer: Fileserver.domain.com
Catagory: None
Event ID: 2
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contact the component manufacturer for a newer version.
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I did a restore from an earlier point, recreated the ActiveDirectory, but messages still coming in DNS log. I started from scratch with installing a new guest OS Windows 2012R2, directly after loging in first time, I installed AD component, and
give the server a reboot. and got the events below that looks normal:
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data might not yet be replicated onto this domain controller. If events in the AD DS event log indicate that there is a problem with DNS name resolution, consider adding the IP address of another DNS server for this domain to the DNS server list in the Internet
Protocol properties of this computer. This event will be logged every two minutes until AD DS has signaled that the initial synchronization has successfully completed.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at
Type: Information
User: N/A
Computer: Fileserver.domain.com
Catagory: None
Event ID: 2
The DNS server has started.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Type: Information
User: N/A
Computer: Fileserver.domain.com
Catagory: None
Event ID: 4
The DNS server has finished the background loading and signing of zones. All zones are now available for DNS updates and zone transfers, as allowed by their individual zone configuration.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
After that I create snapshots after installing every (10-15 updates), reboot, check dns log, and almost the last update, the KB2975719 and/or
KB2995388 is giving the weird messages in the DNS log.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-US/download/details.aspx?id=44051
Any idea?
Kind regards,
Steven

Hi Steven,
Would you please tell us that is the event 4013 logged continuously?
If this event is only logged after reboot or restart DNS service, then it is a normal behavior.
As we can see Event 4, which indicates that the DNS zones have been loaded successfully.
In addition, if Event IDs 4523 and 4524 are being logged after the Event 4013, then there is no problem with DNS service.
More information for you:
Event ID 4013 — DNS Server Active Directory Integration
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc735842(v=WS.10).aspx
Event ID 4 — DNS Server Service Status
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd349715(v=WS.10).aspx
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Hi Marshal21,
>>However, when I create a Windows 7 guest, it does not pickup an IP from DHCP and I cannot get it to connect at all.
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