{"id":152,"date":"2015-04-12T22:09:24","date_gmt":"2015-04-12T11:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/?post_type=article&#038;p=152"},"modified":"2022-11-14T20:05:44","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T09:05:44","slug":"how-to-enable-sound-in-vmware-esxi-server-2012-r2","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/article\/how-to-enable-sound-in-vmware-esxi-server-2012-r2\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Enable Sound in VMWare ESXi Server 2012 R2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re having problems getting sound to work via RDP for Windows Server in Vmware ESXi and the sound is working ok for Virtual Machines running Windows 7 or Windows 8 then most likely it is due to the audio service not running within the Server Operating System.<\/p>\n<h3>Step 1<\/h3>\n<p>Click on Start &gt; Administrative Tools &gt; Services<\/p>\n<h3>Step 2<\/h3>\n<p>Scroll down to the Windows Audio Service, right click and choose properties<\/p>\n<h3>Step 3<\/h3>\n<p>Click on Start and change the startup type to Automatic<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/nosound-vmware.gif\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-153\" data-original=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/nosound-vmware.gif\" alt=\"nosound-vmware\" width=\"812\" height=\"588\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sound should now be enabled.<\/p>\n<div style='text-align:left' class='yasr-auto-insert-visitor'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re having problems getting sound to work via RDP for Windows Server in Vmware ESXi and the sound is working ok for Virtual Machines running Windows 7 or Windows 8 then most likely it is due to the audio service not running within the Server Operating System. Step 1 Click on Start &gt; Administrative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","article-category":[57],"article-tag":[81,82,80],"class_list":["post-152","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","article-category-windows-server","article-tag-esxi","article-tag-sound","article-tag-vmware"],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":false,"span_bottom":false},"number_of_votes":2,"sum_votes":7},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-category?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"article-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-tag?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}