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Recovery partitions on servers -- especially VMs -- are kind of pointless. Just boot the ISO if you need WinRM.
I remember years ago one Windows Update of the vmware drivers that took down all our Windows Servers and they were unable to boot. I thought the recovery partition could be useful for those situations.
Why wouldn't you take a VM snapshot before upgrading?
This is a question for my users/admins :-D
Because he is not a Chicken?
Grow some hair on your chest
Eh, kinda, but a Windows Server ISO would be equally as useful.
A windows server iso would be a lot more useful since you could do anything including reinstall the OS, or copy files from the installer over. Recovery limits you to mostly just what’s already on the C drive.
Well, yes, but I thought that we're all smart enough to know that here and I didn't have to qualify my statement with "In the scenario that the recovery partition would be useful, a Windows ISO would be equally as useful to the task at hand."
The recovery partition is used for automatic recovery and sometimes Windows Update. I wouldn't go deleting it willy nilly.