Hyper-V: Synthetic SCSI Controller Error When Booting from ISO

Forgive my ignorance, but this just pissed me off. I downloaded Server 2012 R2 from TechNet. I created myself a nice Hyper-V guest VM on my Windows 8.1 x64 system. I then spent a good 30 minutes researching what the $@#! this error message meant when trying to power my VM on after attaching the downloaded ISO to it. I read everything from a permissions problem, path length problem, etc. I found the answer. Finally.
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The Solution

First, I have a question. Why is this a solution? What is it that is so special about this that makes it work!? Is it a file stream or something?
Ok – the solution. Are you ready? Seriously?
Make a copy of the ISO and mount that ISO to the VM’s DVD drive.
*facepalm*

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