SBS 2011 and Essential 2012 Updates
Several updates and fixes to SBS 2011 and 2012 Essentials were released in the past month, including: 1. UR5 for the Windows Server Solutions BPA : http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2908176 2. Update 2...
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Mounting USB drive within 2012 R2 Hyper-V Guest
Let’s say you have an external USB drive, and you need to transfer some files from it to a guest partition running on your Hyper-V 2012 R2 server. What do you do? Well, one solution is to make use of a...
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Fix for Windows Server Essentials 2012R2 and Multi-DC released
Microsoft released an update (KB 2974308) today to address the issue where integrating Windows Server Essentials 2012 R2 with Microsoft Office 365 or Windows Azure Active Directory is blocked when you...
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View Message Headers in Outlook 2010 and 2013
I’m often asking customers to send me the message headers of an email when diagnosing an email issue. With Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2013, the ability to quickly display the message headers is no longer...
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Essentials Health Report Auto Start Services Not Running
If you are running Windows Server 2012 (or 2012 R2) Essentials, you may find the following warning in your Health Report: This has been a known and reported issue for more than a year (per this forum...
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2012 R2 Essentials Fails to Integrate with O365
I have an existing client with a Windows 2012 R2 Essential server. I was migrating their email from a GoDaddy POP3/IMAP host over to Office 365. This was going to be my first opportunity to try out the...
View ArticleHow to Configure a Custom Domain Suffix when Installing Windows 2012 R2...
For as long as I can remember, Microsoft’s Small Business Server (SBS) and Essentials Server would default to using .local for the internal domain suffix during installation. So, if your company name...
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Update on Essentials O365 Wizard Issue
Earlier I posted about a situation where the O365 Integration Wizard that is built into the 2012 R2 Essentials Server would fail when trying to set it up the first time....
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SBS and Essentials External Backup Drives Compatibility List
I recently encountered an issue with an external drive connected to a SBS 2011 server. The backup had errored and the issue was with the external drive. Finally, I was reminded about the Technet blog...
View ArticleSamsung 850 EVO SSD crashes Windows 2012 R2 Server
I have personally used Samsung’s 850 SSD drives in a few workstations, and they appear to work great. However, there are several recent posts of Windows 2012 R2 and 2012 R2 Essentials servers crashing....
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New 2012 Windows Server 2012 R2 VM Couldn’t Complete the Updates Undoing Changes
Aarrgghh – why don’t I remember these things anymore???? I was in the process of firing up a new 2012 R2 VM, and in my rush, I clicked to download and install all updates before heading out to do...
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Will there be a Windows Server Essentials 2016?
Windows 10 for desktops and mobile devices is just around the corner. That would be July 29th if you’ve been on vacation! –> And … the next version of Windows Server will be Windows Server 2016. The...
View ArticleClient Connector Status of Windows 10 and Server Essentials 2012 R2
IMPORTANT NOTE: The client connector to connect Windows 10 to Windows Server Essentials 2012 R2 is currently being tested and is not yet available. Once this updated connector is released, a link to...
View ArticleConnector for Windows 10 to 2012 R2 Essentials Now Available
This information just came in today: Windows 10 Client Connector for connecting to Windows Server 2012 R2 is now Released via Download Center We have now officially released the Windows 10 connector...
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Error Occurred During Port Configuration – Access is Denied
Customer is running Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials, and just had a Xerox WorkCentre 8530 delivered to their office. Working with the local Xerox printer tech, we got the driver installed on the...
View ArticleWindows 10 Workstation Shows Offline Status and No Backups from 2012 R2...
It’s been well documented that updates for Windows 10 (such as the 1607 Anniversary update) will cause issues with interfacing to the 2012 R2 Essentials Server. Two things in particular: Workstations...
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Renew SSL Certificate for 2012 R2 Essentials
These are the steps I recently followed to renew a third party (GoDaddy) SSL certificate on a 2012 R2 Essentials server. Although these steps have been documented many, many times over the years, it...
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Using Office 365 instead of Exchange with SBS 2008
Yes, SBS 2008 is no longer supported. But I still have one remaining customer using it. This weekend I moved their email over to Office 365. I figured if I still have one site, there may be others in...
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