@jaredbusch So Veeam Free only does full backups? I was afraid of that. Altaro trial does continuous data protection but I think that will cease functioning when the trial plays out.

@matteo-nunziati I appreciate your humble opinion. What do you suggest? BTW for now I only have plans for 2 VMs.

I installed Altaro VM Backup and it recognized the RD1000 and backed up to it. I can backup VMs to the RD1000 but not the host itself. I don't think that will be too big a problem so I consider this issue solved. Next issue: Altaro free vs. Veeam free.

@lj headed to a branch library and then home. Will be at another library system on Monday. I'll try my host rebuild Tuesday morning if I can and start asking questions again.
Thanks for all the knowledge so far.

@lj I switched user on my Win10 PC and logged in as the domain admin. Services and Disk Management came right up. This is a work around and of course I couldn't get disk management to do what I wanted with the volume sizes. If I blow away my Host OS and reinstall I will have to all of this over, I guess that is how I will learn.

@lj I logged in to the Host with the domain administrator and password. I was able to log in and Sconfig came right up.

@lj Can;t find anything so far. I have a lot of additional path rules to keep undesired applications from being run by domain users but I don't think that is it. They have never stopped my user before.

@lj Just had a thought. Domain group policies may be a factor.

@lj Restarted the Host. Went over to login locally as other user and succeeded. the Server config window does not come up. Another light blue screen comes up and says" C:\Windows\System32\Script.exe.
The specified service does not exist as an installed service.

I thought maybe I just need to log in and out once locally with the domain user.

@lj Still can't connect to Disk Management or Services.

@lj I went to Windows Admin Center and added the user to Remote Desktop Users and Remote Management Users. the user is a member of local administrators also.

@lj I tried going to Remote desktop and logging in with my domain user and password. "The connection was denied because the user account is not authorized for remote login".

Now I can't open Services within Computer Management. I could before all these changes listed above. No big deal. I can open it from Windows Admin Center. All part of my education.

@obsolesce I didn't run the file checker.

@obsolesce I read the MS thread. VDS was running and set to manual but I restarted it anyway. Still don't have permission. I went back to Groups and added myself to Remote Management Users.

I closed Windows Admin Center. re-opened and selected host then manage as and checked use my Windows account. Do I have to log off my Win10 machine or reboot the Host or anything?

@lj I went to Windows Admin Center-Users and Groups. deleted my user. Added my user with full domain name and password. Added that user to the HOST's local administrators. Still don't have permission.

@lj Never mind. It was the DNS server not set to domain. restarting Host now.

@jaredbusch OK. I figured it out. Option 1 on sconfig menu. Now I am typing correctly the name of the domain, then trying domain\admin and admin only for the user. After typing the password I get "The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted". I am guessing the host needs the equivalent of Network browsing, network neighborhood or something turned on.

@jaredbusch OK. I just glanced at Windows Admin Center and Hyper-V manager. How and where do I add the host to a domain? on the AD? command line on the host?