Dell’s TechCenter have an article on the Windows Server 2012 Essentials client restore process. The article explains how to create a Client Restore USB Flash Drive and how to use it on a client system to perform a restore of that client system. All 26 steps are presented to us with plenty of pics to […]
A round up of posts from various blogs from the last few weeks that talk about alternatives to using Windows Home Server. The 1st is from techshout which give us 7 FreeNAS alternatives which actually does include WHS 2011. http://www.techshout.com/alternatives/2013/18/freenas-alternatives/ Next up APC explain how to make your own Windows home server OS using alternative […]
Newegg TV have a video on WS2012 Essentials. The 20 minute video takes a look at what WS2012e is and what’s new, with a demo of the dashboard too:
If you have the Office 365 Integration feature enabled before installing Update Rollup 1 for Windows Server 2012 Essentials then after you apply UR1 and reboot the server, you may get the following Health Alert when opening the dashboard: “One or more services are not running The following important Windows services are not running. Windows […]
The beta version of Drive Bender for WHS 2011 and SBS Essentials 2011 has been updated to RC2. Version 1.4.7.9 has the following changes: Bug fix: A change in how file security was checked in v1.4.7.8 could cause a file save operation to fail and report an error. Bug fix: File case preservation now reported […]
The beta release of StableBit DrivePool for WHS2011, SBS 2011 Essentials and Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials has had an update. Version 1.3.0.7470 BETA has the following changes: Added a new option to the remove drive from pool wizard that will force drive removal even if we can’t migrate some files off of that […]
WHS 2011 out of the box does not support client backup on UEFI based computers that contain a GUID partition table (GPT)-formatted disk. That is until now, as Microsoft have just released a hotfix which adds backup support for UEFI-based computers that contain a GPT-formatted disk. Be aware that there are 4 known issues when […]
Microsoft have released a hotfix that corrects a problem where you cannot enable the Windows Server Update Services role in Windows Server 2012 Essentials. So if you cannot enable the WSUS role in WS2012 Essentials then head on over to Microsoft Article 2762663 which has all the details.
The stable build of StableBit DrivePool for WHS2011, SBS 2011 Essentials and Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials has been updated. Version 1.2.6.7245 has the following change log: Version 1.2.5.7232 was packed incorrectly with an older build (7229). As always this release can be downloaded from here.
Update Rollup 1 for Windows Server 2012 Essentials is available as of today. In this first Update Rollup for WS2012e we have 4 new features and 7 issues which have been addressed: Features that are included in this update Feature 1 Support is added for hosted email message mailbox integration in the Dashboard. The Hosted […]
