Hmmm, I've been so busy the last month that I had forgotten the password for my new server hosted at Intergen. I could access the Hyper-v virtual machines via HTTP (via RRAS port reverse mapping) but I have to RDP onto the host to then RDP onto the guests to do anything more than just use the SharePoint web UI.

I even tried standing in front of the physical server to see if that would jog my memory which it didn't. I can tell you that http://www.petri.co.il/forgot_administrator_password.htm#1 worked on W2K8 64Bit to set the local admin account password to blank.

At the same time, the old server which is still running wssdemo.com had shut down all by itself. Turns out that an automatic update that required a reboot;

- Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool - March 2008 (KB890830) or
- Update for Windows Server 2003 (KB948496)

had failed to restart. I have also heard of other servers suffering the same problem so keep an eye out if you are going to apply these in a lights out environments (wssdemo.com was down all day Sunday through to 8am Monday morning).