I'm about to install the final release of Windows Home Server 2011. Normally, I would just insert the DVD and follow the prompts. After successfully installing Windows Home Server 2011 and joining client computers, do not reset the time, date, and time zone. Digital Home Gadgets Microsoft Windows Home Server Phones Security Software Storage & NAS Tablets & Slates Family Toys News Events Reviews Videos Contests 2K announces the Mafia 3 PC Specs released today Chris Hare-Sep 12, 2016 Chris Hare. Home Library Wiki Learn Gallery Downloads Support Forums Blogs Resources For IT Professionals. How to Install Exchange 2013 on Windows Server 2012 Article History How to Install Exchange 2013 on Windows Step 1: Prepare Active Directory Step 2. Very interested in all of this! Just thinking about installing my own Windows Server 2012 Essentials. Have already tried out most of what you've written above, had some bigger problems with my computer linking to the domain (Virtual Machine can't run while I'm on.
Windows Server 2. Essentials: The Home Server Replacement With the demise of the underappreciated Windows Home Server, Microsoft is offering up two interesting alternatives going forward: Windows 8 and Windows Server 2. Essentials. Windows 8 has a lot going for it, including a low price, a simple user experience, and easy compatibility on a home network. But based on years of great experiences using WHS, I’m choosing Windows Server 2. Essentials for my own home office instead. Essentials 2. 01. Windows Server, comes with some complexity. So while I can’t resist the allure of a real server, Windows 8 may just be a much more obvious choice for most. It works a homegroup, includes all of the media sharing stuff needed to interact with an Xbox 3. Storage Spaces- based data duplication and storage pooling functionality. 1.3.10 Oracle Home Directory 1.3.10.1 Contents of the Oracle Home Environment 1.3.10.2 Multiple Oracle Home Components. 2.6.4.4 Installing a Loopback Adapter on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 2.6.4.5 Installing Microsoft KM-TEST Loopback. I’ve installed, in turn, the Beta and Release Candidate (RC) versions of Essentials on my Micro server (described below), which I’ll be using as the center of my home office network in the near future: All I’m waiting on at this point is the final release of Essentials, which I expect to see in the coming weeks. But for now, here are some notes from my current usage, which involves using that Micro server as a secondary, testing server, albeit one with a near complete collection of my data. From the factory, this ships with a 1. GHz AMD Turion II Neo processor, 2 GB of RAM, and a 2. GB hard drive, at a cost of $3. There’s no OS preinstalled on this server, which is of course fine. But the real allure here is the expandability. This small box has four (non hot- swap) drive bays plus a spot for an optical drive, all SATA- based. It has a fairly incredible six USB ports (four of which are on the front), though they are all USB 2. E- SATA port, gigabit networking, and two smallish expansion slots: 1 half- height, half- length PCIe x. Gen 2, and 1 half- height, half- length PCIe x. Gen 2. Looking at this machine, you’d be correct to describe it as the spiritual successor of HP’s original line of Home Servers, the Media. Smart. But it’s actually even better since it sports a VGA plug so you can connect a monitor and work with it more easily. And while upgrading the internals is a bit tricky given the tight quarters, I’ve bumped up the RAM (to 8 GB) and have added three 3. TB hard drives. I’m thinking about replacing that 2. GB drive when the final Essentials version appears as well. Another item for the “wait for RTM” list. But this amounted to nothing, and by the time the first Essentials 2. I was committed to sticking with the more familiar NTFS. So I’ve not even tried Re. FS on this machine. This storage space is used for the Music, Pictures, and Users server folders, as well as for a new server folder I’ve created called Software. The final drive, V: , is used to store videos. This backs up the operating system (everything on C: ) and everything on the storage space (S: ). I don’t backup videos locally, but once the RTM version of Essentials hits, I’ll connect this server to the cloud- based backup on Crashplan (which I use for Windows Home Server today). First, that system supports hard drives up to 2 TB only, so even with data duplication on, I have about the same storage on the new server. If anything does happen to the server, I can plug the drives into any Windows 8 PC and it will just work. Windows 8 I previously wrote about potentially using Windows 8 in Replace Windows Home Server .. With Windows 8?, where I noted that Microsoft’s new client OS would likely be a reasonable contender as a home server of sorts. Using that article as a guide, let’s step through the list of home server features and see how or if they work in Windows Server 2. Essentials. Data redundancy and single pool of storage. Like Windows 8, Essentials includes a feature called Storage Spaces that provides data redundancy and storage pooling functionality like that provided by Drive Extender in WHS. Actually, it’s a lot better, and unlike with Server Standard or Datacenter, you even get the simpler Windows 8- style management interface. Centralized PC backup and restore. Essentials includes the next generation version of the centralized PC backup and restore functionality from Windows Home Server 2. File History storage for all your PCs. You could configure a Windows 8 “home server” to act as a central location for File History (for your other PCs) but would need to configure it manually. Centralized PC and server health monitoring. Essentials includes health monitoring, both for the server itself as well as all of the connected PCs, as did WHS. There’s no such functionality in Windows 8. Document and media sharing. Essentials includes the same document and media sharing features as does WHS and Windows 8, though the latter needs to be enabled first. What’s missing is homegroup support. Remote access. Like WHS, Essentials includes a decent web- based client for accessing home documents and media, and you can remote desktop into the server if needed for other purposes. I use other solutions for this, however, obviating this benefit when compared to Windows 8. It creates an Active Directory domain, and while I’ll write in the future about how you can largely ignore this functionality and just use the server in a more home- like workgroup mode, it’s still a level of complexity to deal with, one that may be untenable for the typical home/home office user. First, most people acquire Windows Server with new hardware, and that will likely be the case with Essentials 2. For example, the micro server I’m currently using can be purchased with Essentials 2. Essentials 2. 01. RAM and a second hard drive) today. Second, like its predecessor, you’ll probably be able to get Essentials 2. OEM version today for a bit less money. The OEM version of Windows Small Business Server Essential 2. Newegg today. That means a lot to me. But it’s the direction I’m going, and if you’re interested in learning more, I’ll be writing about this transition throughout the fall.
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