The Windows Server Essentials and Small Business Server Blog has announced that German, French, Chinese and Japanese beta versions of Windows Server 2012 Beta Essentials are available for download. Also announced in the same post was the availability of the Windows Server 2012 Beta Essentials Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK). ADK is a collection of […]
Toms Hardware have a thorough 9 page review on the NAS-Specific Western Digital Red hard drives. Lots of benchmarks are the order of the day with a splash of temperature and power consumption too: “We can wholeheartedly recommend the Western Digital Red drives in their intended application: small business NAS appliances. I/O generally isn’t emphasized […]
With OS Mountain Lion coming out on the Mac App Store for $19.99 today, the Cult of Mac website takes a look at the Server edition of Mountain Lion. The article looks at the various features of the server edition including the server app, file sharing, the profile manager, collaboration and deployment. You can read […]
Website Title (Required) shows us how easy it is to setup On Premises (OP) integration with an Exchange server with Windows Server 2012 Essentials: “…i wanted to demonstrate how easy it is to setup the OnPrem (OP) integration with an Exchange server, and how it is possible to access both, using 1 single public IP […]
A couple of articles for you on Windows Server 2012 the OS behind the new WS2012e. First up InfoWorld takes a look at Server 2012 and its features in a 3 page article. Next WindowsITPro looks at the top ten storage enhancements in Windows Server 2012 which include a revised Chkdsk, thin provisioning, data deduplication, […]
My Server (codename) for Windows Server 2012 Essentials is available for Windows Phone users on the Marketplace. The public beta of My Server enables server status monitoring, management for both users and devices and also allows for media consumption on your Windows Phone. The app can be found here or can be found […]
Microsoft have issued a fix for Windows Server 2012 (which includes WS2012e) and Windows 8 Release Preview where Multimedia or communication activities may cause the computer to stop responding. The system may randomly stop responding (hang) when you work on multimedia or communication activities. This problem may occur during video editing, unified communications, or any […]
The tinkerguy is back and this time he shows us how to automate the Windows Server 2012 Essentials installation so that toy have an unattended installation by using unattended .xml. Interested in learning some of the steps to being an OEM custom PC builder, or Windows Deployment automation sysadmin? Recently, I became interested in getting […]
Episode 92 of the BYOB podcast is up, and this week: “Haswell, Server 2012 storage spaces testing and the great domain debate rages on. eVGA mini motherboard, and the Google Nexus hands on…” You can find episode 92 here.
Tinkerguy explains to us how to remove the Active Directory Domain from Windows Server 2012 Essentials itself, in a attempt to restore the simplicity of Workgroup. As well as lots of detailed information, Tinkerguy has also posted this 8 minute video BUT please note as of the 27th July 2012 this method of removal is […]
