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Very small business on SBS 2003 - Server essentials options?

March 12, 2014, 3:10 am
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Hi all,

I've got a client with a very basic setup which I'm looking to upgrade, but need to do it with a small budget, and preferably with just single one-off licensing rather than subscription services. Let me paint a picture of their current setup:

Small business with ~20 users that supplies parts from a warehouse

Windows SBS 2003 installed. 

PCs are largely XP units with some Windows 7 (and compatibility issues logging on to 2003 Domain!)

Very low budget setup, small hardware firewall, single switch, cisco 800 series router, tape backup 

Second, externally supprted, SQL server that runs the warehouse cataloging database for application installed on each machine

Office 2003 with some machines with office 2007

A few network printers to print daily orders and receipts

The server is ~6 years old now and needs to go. As I said, it's all low budget, but I should be able to get a business case for an upgrade approved.

Ideally a new domain with a new version of SBS on new hardware was my plan, but this seems to have stopped with SBS 2011. Now we have 2012 Essentials, but that doesn't contain Exchange. It seems MS want to push us to work in the 'cloud' , but this business only has a relatively slow (ADSL, ~8Mbit - limited by physical lines in the area) internet connection, and I don't believe the owner will like monthly subscription fees, instead of one-off purchases of licenses. 

Is it worth trying to get 2012 Essentials working, then paying on top for Exchange, or shall I hunt down a 2011 SBS licence for this user?

On the Office side, I'll probably go for 2010 volume licensing and avoid Office 365, and get all the machines on windows 7 before XP is retired for good.

Any advice welcomed!

Many thanks.

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Changing a UI language on 2012 Essentials?

March 12, 2014, 1:51 am
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Hi,

Does anybody know if that would be possible to change language to English after performing a migration from 2003 SBS Server with German UI to 2012 Essentials Server with German UI?

I found this blog regarding changing UI on Windows Server 2012

http://glazenbakje.wordpress.com/2013/01/30/windows-8-changing-user-interface-language/

And I started to wondering if above scenario could work?

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After successful backup, Backup disk not showing

March 12, 2014, 8:28 am
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Hello TechNet forums.

I have a client that is running Windows Server 2012 Essentials.  I have three (3) USB HDD's in a storage pool for backup's.  This has been working successfully since last November.  This week,  I have been receiving failures.  The failures occur due to the backup drive not being recognized.  With one of the USB HDD's plugged into the computer, nothing is showing up in the Dashboard, under storage, Hard Drives.  The client is told to just leave the USB drive connected to the computer, and only switch it out on Monday's, after getting into the office.  

The above picture is what I see under the Dashboard, storage, Hard Drives.  I am doing a google search on this, and will post any errors I find in the logs, but if anyone has any ideas on what is happening, I appreciate the feedback.

Thank you.

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Can't Connect to One Workstation on Network via Remote Web/Anywhere Access

March 12, 2014, 1:14 pm
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We are working with a small Windows Server 2012 Essentials network. The Remote Web Access system was installed carefully, without any errors. We are able to consistently connect to both the server and almost every workstation through RWA/AA. The client OS on all workstations is Windows 7 Professional SP1.

There is one workstation that we have never been able to connect to through Anywhere Access.  That workstation does show up on the computer list in RWA/Anywhere Access, as does its availability status.  In addition, the workstation is monitored correctly (along with the other workstations) by WS12E.  The computer's backup status, OS update level, etc. all display correctly.  The machine name (Panasonic) also shows up in the "network" section of Windows Explorer on the server and other workstations.

When we try to connect to the problem workstation via RWA, we get this error:

I then tried to connect to this workstation from inside the network (on-site), using Remote Desktop.  Here is the error message I got:

Next, I checked the IP address on the problem workstation.  IPCONFIG revealed it as 192.168.1.7.  This same value showed up for the workstation (by name) in the router DHCP client table as well.  I then tried to PING the workstation by this IP address, which worked (once I disabled its firewall).  However, when I PINGed the workstation by name (rather than IP address), it returned the machine name along with a different IP address (192.168.1.4).  According to the router DHCP table, that address belongs to a wireless smartphone used by the owner of the business (and I believe that is the case).

Based on these results, I tried connecting via Remote Desktop internally again, *only this time I used the IP address, rather than the machine name.*  This worked, and for the first time I was able to connect to and operate the workstation, but not from a remote (outside of the network)location.

I should note that we also had a profile migration problem with this workstation, and had to remove and reinstall the WS12E "connector" program multiple times.  That was not the case with the other workstations, which went smoothly both in terms of profile migration and Anywhere Access connection from outside the network.

I had posted a question about this some time ago, but that was before we had tried the experiments above to try and pin down the problem.  I would greatly appreciate any assistance in understanding and resolving this problem and getting the Anywhere Access function to work with this machine.  Thanks.

John

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Auto-start Services Not Running : Windows Server Office 365 Integration Service

February 26, 2013, 11:33 pm
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Hi to All,

Yesterday Microsoft Released Update Rollup 1 for Windows Server 2012 Essentials. The update applied without errors as far as Windows Update concerned but upon restarting the server i am getting the error below:

Auto-start Services Not Running: Windows Server Office 365 Integration Service.

I am getting this error always in my Health Reports (auto or manually generated) and sometimes in my Dashboard Alerts.

I repair this error by clicking "Try to repair this error" and it goes away, but my health reports are still showing the error.

In the afternoon i will check my services status to find out if the service is not starting correctly and post back.

Any Advice? 

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Phenom II x6 1055T

March 13, 2014, 10:35 am
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I am currently running Windows Home Server 2011 using a Phenom II x6 1055T processor which runs at 2.8GHz. I am considering upgrading to Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials.

Will this processor be enough to run Server Essentials for a couple of years? I would prefer to wait a little time to upgrade my CPU and motherboard. I will be using it as both a  Home Server and as a server for a home-based business.

We will have two users presently, which may expand to four maximum, with 4 computers, two laptops, 4 tablets/cell phones, and three printers. That's a total of 13 max now, with maybe 2 more later.

Thank you for your help.

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Unable to Create a Subfolder in Company Folder

March 12, 2014, 7:09 pm
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Gurus,

I am setting up Essentials R2 and I see all the preinstalled folders including the Company folder. When I try to create a subfolder in it, it gives me a message, "The folder location is not valid. This location cannot be added as a server folder, because one of the following conditions.....".

I understand the message but cant figure why it wouldnt let me allow to create subfolders because now I have to create a folder called XYZ Company and then create subfolders in it. I had thought that was the purpose of the Company folder.

Please help.

Thank you.

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This computer has not had a successful backup recently

March 13, 2014, 2:38 pm
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Despite the above mentioned critical notification in Health Monitioring, all other indications state that backups have been successful. This warning has only started appearing since I reconnected the client machines to the server. Any idea on how to fix? Have disabled client backups and re-enabled them to no avail....
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2012 Essentials Launchpad reports server is offline

February 5, 2013, 4:10 pm
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I have a new clean install of Windows Server Essentials 2012. The Server apears fully operational and is visable by network explorer and accessable by Windows remote desktop connection. When configuring http;//<myserver>/connect all workstations Launchpad reports "the server is offline. do you want to connect in offline mode. I can tell it yes, log on again and have access to my server drives however the Launchpad still reports the "server is offline" any sugestions how to correct this?
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Server 2012 R2 Essentials does not wake up clients

March 14, 2014, 3:20 am
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Hi!

I am trying to get my Server 2012 R2 Essentials (Hyper-V VM) to do nightly backups of my Win 8.1 client PCs. As far as I understand the server should be able to wake up the clients automatically from hibernate (I selected this option during setup of the connector).

Unfortunately this does not seem to work and I don't find any easy way to test the wake up procedure. What is really annoying is that I don't even find any documentation how the wake up procedure actually works. Does it use Wake On Lan? Are there any magic packets involved?

Any help is welcome.

Anguel

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How to integrate an RDS server with a WSE 2012 R2 front end

March 14, 2014, 8:23 am
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I have a Server 2012 R2 with the RDS role running next to a WSE 2012R2 server. I used the Quick Start feature on the RDS server after joining it to the WSE domain using the Connect process. This worked perfectly.

What I need now, is to be able to create RemoteApps on the RDS server or to create a RDP icon on a desktop which will connect users directly to a session on the RDS server via the WSE server's gateway.

The problem is, all of the essential (pun not intended) services that I need on the WSE server are installed but hidden. I know how to unhide the Gateway Manager on the WSE (using the dism command) but that is of no use to me.

Bottom line, how can I integrate an RDS server into the Gateway function of a WSE server, so that I can either attach a link to the front end or just create standalone session links?

Randy

MCP SBSC

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Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials - no RDS-Virtualization

March 14, 2014, 10:16 am
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Hi,

I'm currently customizing the Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials ISO for installation of Hyper-V-Role on Host and included VM with all Essentials-Roles as per http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn293253.aspx

Now I would also like to include the feature "Remote Desktop Virtualization Host" on the Hyper-V-Host, so I can have Windows7 or 8/8.1 with RemoteFX in a second VM. Command should be

dism /Image:C:\essentials-host-mount /Enable-Feature:RDS-Virtualization
but this feature doesn't seem to be included in the image at all. Is there any possibility to integrate this feature (eg. ripping from a Win2012R2-Standard-Iso)? And will I have any licensing issues? Or will I have to use Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard for RDS-Virtualization / Remote-FX?

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Remote Desktop thru IP using RWA?

February 13, 2014, 1:34 pm
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I have been remoting into my computers thru Remote Web Access for years from my company. All of a sudden they are blocking because it's reporting it's a "Remote Access" site. If I use the IP I get thru so guessing they are blocking all remotewebaccess.com addresses.  I get in with IP but can't remote desktop into anything because of a cert mismatch to the Remote Desktop Gateway Server.  is there a way around this?

Thanks.

Steve


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Launchpad shows "Server is offline" in client PCs

November 18, 2013, 7:28 am
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Hi,

I've the problem that the Launchpad indicates the server as offline even if it's not.

In the Server dashboard I can see that all client PCs are shown as offline too, but everything is up and running. I can ping the clients and vice versa. I've looked ino the logfiles and found the following errors in LANConfigSvc.log:

[2728] 131118.160555.6740: ServerDiscoveryClient: Calling Ping
[2728] 131118.160555.6740: ServerDiscoveryClient: OM is connected, just Ping
[6288] 131118.160555.6740: ServerConnectionClient: Calling Ping
[6288] 131118.160555.6740: ServerConnectionClient: OM is connected, just Ping
[7136] 131118.160555.7676: VPNClientUpdater: Failed to retrieve VPN server setting. Exception: System.TimeoutException: Timeout occurred waiting for connection to complete.  Connection attempt is still in progress.
   at Microsoft.WindowsServerSolutions.Common.ProviderFramework.internal.ConnectorInternals.TimeoutWait`1.ThreadWaitHolder.WaitForTimeout(TimeSpan duration, ProviderConnector`1 providerConnector)
   at Microsoft.WindowsServerSolutions.Common.ProviderFramework.ProviderConnector`1.WaitForConnection(TimeSpan duration)
   at Microsoft.WindowsServerSolutions.Networking.NetworkingServiceBackend.Connect(TimeSpan timeout)
   at Microsoft.WindowsServerSolutions.Networking.VPNClientUpdater.TryGetVPNServerSetting(VPNSetting& setting)
[2292] 131118.160556.1108: ServerDiscovery:Pinger: Ping: TimeoutException in Connect
[2292] 131118.160556.1108: SmallBusinessServerPresenceDetector: Ping: retry #25 of 1 failed
[6184] 131118.160601.2905: ServerDiscovery:Pinger: Ping: TimeoutException in Connect
[6184] 131118.160601.2905: ServerDiscoveryProvider:SmallBusinessServerDiscoverer: Verification failed
[6184] 131118.160601.2905: ServerDiscoveryProviderBase: Calling Callback.OnServerDiscoveryAttemptFailed()
[6184] 131118.160601.2905: ServerDiscoveryProviderBase: Callback successfully completed
[2988] 131118.160601.2905: LanConfigService:RunnerBase: Server discovery Attempt Failed
[6288] 131118.160606.2986: ServerDiscoveryProvider:SmallBusinessServerDiscoverer: Reset DNS server before discovery
[6288] 131118.160606.4078: ServerDiscovery:ServerLocator: FindServer: looking for server SERVER02, searchDuration:00:00:05
[6288] 131118.160611.6342: ServerDiscoveryProvider:SmallBusinessServerDiscoverer: OnServerCandidateDiscovered: Found server SERVER02, will verify
[6288] 131118.160611.6342: ServerDiscoveryProvider:SmallBusinessServerDiscoverer: Set DNS server after discovery.
[6184] 131118.160611.6342: PInvoke: DnsValidateServerStatus(out serverStatus = 'ERROR_SUCCESS (0x00000000)', serverIP = '192.168.104.34', queryName = '') returns 'NO_ERROR (0x00000000)'
[6288] 131118.160611.7122: ProviderFramework: Information: [0] : (current thread: 0x1890): PfSynchronizationContext not needed.
[6288] 131118.160611.7122: ProviderFramework: Information: [0] : ProviderConnector: Querying for provider info: Microsoft.WindowsServerSolutions.Networking.INetworkingService, True,

Can someone help please

Thanks

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On Premises Exchange Integration fails

December 16, 2012, 2:31 pm
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Thru a series of misfortunate circumstances I have acquired a client that had either botched (or had another do the botching) of a Essentials\Exchange (in a VM environment) config, Essentials is running okay and Exchange is running okay except the part where on premises integration  is performed.

I've gone through the standard setup checklist (Integrate an on-premise Exchange Server with Windows Server Essentials 2012http://technet.microsoft.com/library/jj200172 ) and even tested enabling and disabling and re-enabling on my home lab setup without error;

What I know so far

there seems to have been multiple attempts at adding an Exchange Server or they decided on version upgrades (I found leftover server names in ADSI)

there is no logging of the why or reason on the Wizard failures (there is very very little documentation on the back end of this feature) the Error message is sadly lacking in any descriptive  message

I have dug down to the OPEIntegration configs but there is little guidance there as well, searching the registry has yielded no results

I think, but am not sure of, an Original 2 server deployment of essentials and Exchange (probably 2010) was initially deployed when 2013 was released they tried a deployment on a new VM thinking that other then the uninstall little else had to be done.

Exchange seems to be working (had to delete/recreate some users for inconsistent mailbox errors) creating mailboxes in Exchange and not through the Essentials interface, users are sending and receiving mail

More docs on the backend processes for essentials would be nice I love SBS but lets face it some of the ALL in One stuff is badly documented getting the linked "find out more about this error" pages updated would be nice.....



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Unable to start Windows Server Essentials Management Service (WseMgmtSvc)

October 24, 2013, 8:28 pm
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Earlier this week, I did a clean install of Windows Server R2 Essentials.  Before performing any setup functions, I installed all of the updates that Windows Update provided.  Now, I am unable to perform any of the Setup functions from the Dashboard.  Each link fails with a different error message.

The probable cause, IMHO, is that the Windows Server Essentials Management Service is not running and can not be forced to start. I get the message "Error 1067: The process terminated unexpectedly".   Can any one help?

Thanks,

Phil

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Essentials \ Remote Administration

March 15, 2014, 2:55 pm
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Folks,

I have setup R2 Essentials and its working well. I need to set it up so I can administer it remotely when I am outside of the company's intranet. I have looked around and searched quite a bit and keep running into Direct Access and Remote Web Access. We don't need to give users access at this point but only I, as the administrator access. What is the easiest and the most secure way to achieve this? Any additional links/websites that discuss this will also be much appreciated.

Thank you.

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Windows Server 2012 Essentials R2 - KERNEL SECURITY CHECK FAILURE

January 18, 2014, 12:46 pm
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I have just brought a brand new HP ML310e Gen8 v2 and the supplier has sent me Windows 2012 Essentials R2 with it..

I have now tried a clean build on the server 5 times and every single time it has crashed out with the KERNEL SECURITY CHECK FAILURE...

I have tried all the usual firmware updates etc.., nothing worked.. We just have 2 x 1TB HDD's in a RAID1 config and the server has the very latest BIOS firmware..

I'm not sure what to do here other that go back to serversdirect and ask them for the original Windows 2012 Essentials..

Any ideas would be very much appreciated...

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windows essentials 2012 R2 - windows server essentials management service won't start

March 16, 2014, 3:20 pm
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Some features in the dashboard won't work and I get an error for the above service.

Can not add folders or manage my storage space (remove discs)

Starting it in services is not possible I get an error 1067: the process ended unexpectedly.

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Back ups of Win 8.1 clients unsuccessful

March 9, 2014, 7:56 pm
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I have Windows Server 2012 Essentials installed in a Hyper-V VM.  The build is 6.2.9200.  There are five connected client machines, two are Win 7 Pro SP1 and three are Win 8.1 Pro SP1.

None of the Win 8.1. clients are able to complete a successful backup to WSE 2012.  They all fail between 15% to 40% of the estimated back up.  I tore down two of the clients, one desktop and one laptop. and did a fresh new Win 8.1 install on each (fully patched) and connected them using the Connector software.  Same result, backs are unsuccessful.

The Win 7 clients back up without a hitch.

Guidance would be appreciated.

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