USB redirection possible with Windows 8.1 Pro Hyper-V?

Hi, I've been searching on this topic for a while and I seem to see conflicting information everywhere, so I'm not sure where to turn now.

I've got a USB scanner on the host machine that I need to give access to the VM.  I've set up the enhanced session on the VM and have even tried RDPing into the VM as some have suggested, and set up access to all local PNP devices (though the scanner is never listed) in both instances, but the scanner is not listed in the device manager nor is found by the program which is supposed to use it.

This following link seems to suggested that maybe I need Windows 8.1 Enterprise on the VM (and maybe even the HM) in order for the USB ports to be recognized:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/rds/archive/2012/11/26/remotefx-features-for-windows-8-and-windows-server-2012.aspx

Any thoughts on this?