In Hyper-V, "Turn Off" is a hard shutdown, similar to unplugging a physical machine. Hyper-V can inflict this on any guest at all, since it basically just kills everything and doesn't give it any...

Well, it's nice that VMWare has (or may have) that option, but the question at hand is why it's not in Hyper-V.

Since the Hyper-V Manager has a "Shutdown" option -- which is a clean shutdown, same...

The manager has a "Shutdown" option in the context (right-click) menu, and, when the guest is off, it has a "Start" option. Thus it should be trivial for them to combine the two in a single menu...

Update: I've tried all kinds of permutations for the /source parameter. Anything that includes any characters over and above a standard path show as rejected in the log. Thus
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So for I moment I was kicking myself, as I noticed I was specifying install.exe rather that .esd. I had been suspicious (and still am) that it's just a stupid error that I keep overlooking, and was...

I've been following this issue for some time, as I have one machine (of 20+) that has this issue. Like many here I've just been living with it, but now that it's supposedly fixed I'm revisiting it.
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