>>Bit of a long shot but anyone know how to redirect a USB port from one OS to another with VFP? I guess the communication between them would probably be done via a named pipe.
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>>In this case what I actually want to do is USB passthrough from a Server 2012 R2 hyper-V host to a win XP virtual machine.
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>Maybe: http://www.msserverpro.com/support-for-usb-access-in-windows-server-2012-r2-hyper-v-through-microsofts-new-virtual-machine-enhanced-session-mode/

Thanks for the suggestion Al but I have investigated that and it only works via a RDP connection not a proper network connection. Also only supports use of Windows 8 and above. My problem is that the virtual machine needs to be XP (which this type of connection does not support) because we want to run NTBackup to backup to tape.