I have setup anywhere access on Win2012 Essentials.  

I have a valid ssl cert pointing to my routers natted IP for the server.  I have successfully imported it as well.

My router is CORRECTLY forwarding tcp 80, and 443

I CAN reach anywhere access from the internet

Problem:

the anywhere access wizard in the dashboard shows the errors:

"anywhere access to your server is blocked"

and

"there may be more then one router on your network"

...doing a repair fails with this error.

I have already told it that i will manually configure my router, which i have done.  Why is it behaving like this?  My server setup is exactly what essentials is designed for.

I've just rebuilt a home server with Essentials 2012 r2. My two Win8 clients have connected fine, however a Win7 laptop fails to connect.

I get an error from the client connector saying "Server not available"

Looking at the logs on the failed client shows a few errors:

I recently purchased one of the new Thecus N2000 Windows Storage Server Essentials 2012 R2 boxes and I'd like to integrate it into my SBS 2008 domain.  I've successfully joined it to the domain, but whenever I try to run the "Configure Windows Server Essentials" wizard I get an error "Configuration encountered some issues" "Please Click Retry.  If the issue still exists please refer to the help link for more troubleshooting steps".  Unfortunately the troubleshooting link just takes me to these forums, and I have yet to find anything in here to get this to work.  

I've tried removing the Essentials role, rebooting, re-adding the Essentials role, and re-running the "Configure Windows Server Essentials" wizard, but no good - I still continue to get the same failure.

I've read that Windows Server Essentials requires that it holds the FSMO roles and it gets angry if it doesn't hold them.  SBS 2008 also requires that *it* holds the FSMO roles though, which is what prevented me from going to Windows Server Essentials. Windows _Storage_ Server Essentials however was billed as a different product, I'm getting conflicting information from some people saying I should be able to integrate it with my SBS 2008 domain no problem, but given the fact that I'm having so much trouble with this I'm beginning to question that.

Has anyone out there been able to add a WSSe 2012 R2 box to an SBS domain and get the two to play together nicely?  What did it take?

I have attempted to install Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials about a dozen times for use as a home server to replace an existing Home Server 2011 box. The server is a custom build using an Asus H97 board with Core i5 and Intel I350 server NIC.  The initial install of Windows Server 2012 R2 component goes 100% fine and I manually update all drivers via Intel's website using signed drivers for the O/S. However, once I start the Essentials portion with the automated wizard, it'll get through about 5% and then on a 2nd restart I get a stop error of 0XC000021A. Doing some research on this error all I can locate is issues with drivers but I'm certain I'm using good drivers from Intel that are very recent and signed. I did also try F8 and disable driver signing checks but this has no effect.

I have installed no 3rd party software.  It does appear that the DCpromo portion of the Essentials setup gets partway through and then upon reboot, I'm getting the stop error.

Does Essentials have a setup log file that gets generated during the installation?  I thought I could use this to troubleshoot what portion is getting hung-up.

Thanks for any input.

Ken

Hello all,

I am the local layman IT consultant for my church and I have a server and 10 clients that I need to upgrade from SBS 2003r2 to Server 2012r2 Essentials.

I installed the current system and it is as follows:

 Dell PowerEdge 2900 server  Service Tag B24GBC1 (install Nov2007)

Processors  X2            x86 Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 6 GenuineIntel ~1596 Mhz  64 Bit processors

8Gb Ram, 4 HDDs 250GB in raid 1 mirrored on PERC 5/i controller

Motorola Surfboard SB6181Modem,Netgear WNDR 3700 Router, Netgear 24Port Gb.Switch

10 Windows7 Pro clients, 12 User accounts w/ Remote Web Access to clients from home computers.

1@ 1Tb. USB 2.0 External HDD backup system drive, 2@ 500Gb hot swap HDD for removable data only Backups for off campus storage.

Running SBS 2003r2 Standard

 Server roles are: DC ,DHCP, DNS, Remote Web Workplace, UNIFI Wi-Fi for Users and Guest internet , PowerChurch Database software.

All mail accounts have been moved from Exchange on server, (changed to IMAP accounts connected to BlueHost who hosts our website and mail on our domain name).

 I am looking for step by step install instructions for a clean install of Server 2012r2 Essentialson this same server. Most of what I find on the net is how to migrate, and I would prefer a clean install.

What concerns me most is how to deal with the Perc5i raid, other drivers I may need from Dell,

How do I remove all the client computers from the old network before install of 2012 and how to reconnect them? Do I keep all the client users the same and will they not loose data, and still be able to access the data on their client machine?

I have a fair grasp of the basics but I will be on the clock to get everything accomplished from a Friday afternoon to Monday Morning, so the office can pick up where they left off so I need more instruction on the procedures.

Any help is appreciated.

John Sterner

Hi to all

I was looking at the anoucement that it is now possible to connect multiple essential servers to a single office 365 environment. Glad to hear that as I'm planning to implent several essential servers to a single company that is spreaded over several locations. Reason for this, is that each branch only has up to 12 employees.

I wanted to ask if it is still not possible to connect several essential servers into a single domain? As example having one main office with essential (or even standard) and adding branch offices to the domain, each with essentials.

Or would I need Windows Server Standard and add the essential mask on it to make this work?

Thanks for your input

This started when I was working on Anywhere Access. All the client computers show as offline on the Anywhere Access website. I checked the console and all the client computers show a status of offline, backup status Unknown, Update Status and security status unavailable etc. The server is showing online.

I researched the issue and checked the Dashboard log file. It seems to be a certificate problem. I installed a GoDaddy cert for the Anywhere Access and that might be the cause.

Here is part of the log file:

8724] 150121.155709.4667: PluginManager: Unable to retrieve digital certificate for C:\Windows\system32\Essentials\Microsoft.WindowsServerSolutions.Console.AddIns.Drives.dll: Cannot find the requested object.

[8724] 150121.155709.4980: PluginManager: Unable to retrieve digital certificate for C:\Windows\system32\Essentials\OIMAddin.dll: Cannot find the requested object.

[8724] 150121.155709.4980: PluginManager: Unable to retrieve digital certificate for C:\Windows\system32\Essentials\Microsoft.WindowsServerSolutions.Console.AddIns.Folders.dll: Cannot find the requested object.

[8724] 150121.155709.4980: PluginManager: Unable to retrieve digital certificate for C:\Windows\system32\Essentials\Microsoft.WindowsServerSolutions.Console.AddIns.Drives.dll: Cannot find the requested object.

[8724] 150121.155709.5136: PluginManager: Unable to retrieve digital certificate for C:\Windows\system32\Essentials\OIMAddin.dll: Cannot find the requested object.

In addition to the log file the Essentials Server Tester showed the following:

Enter Task..
2
Testing CA Name..
437.625.0:<2015/1/29, 12:20:19>: 0x80070002 (WIN32: 2 ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND): CADescription
419.6336.0:<2015/1/29, 12:20:19>: 0x80070002 (WIN32: 2 ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)
437.2132.0:<2015/1/29, 12:20:19>: 0x80070002 (WIN32: 2 ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)
437.625.0:<2015/1/29, 12:20:19>: 0x80070002 (WIN32: 2 ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND): ParentCAName
Certificate Authority Online  : OK
Certificate Authority Name    : OK
Certificate Authority Cert    : OK

Testing /Connect Certificate Package..
Connect Computer Certificate  : OK

Testing CRL Download..
CRL Download                  : OK

Testing CRL Distribution Configuration..
437.625.0:<2015/1/29, 12:20:28>: 0x80070002 (WIN32: 2 ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND): CADescription
419.6336.0:<2015/1/29, 12:20:28>: 0x80070002 (WIN32: 2 ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)
437.2132.0:<2015/1/29, 12:20:28>: 0x80070002 (WIN32: 2 ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)
437.625.0:<2015/1/29, 12:20:28>: 0x80070002 (WIN32: 2 ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND): ParentCAName
CRL Extension (CDP)           : OK
CRL Extension (CRL)           : OK

Testing Dashboard Certificate..
Dashboard Certificate         : OK

Review your results, items in red should be investigated

Thanks any help will be appreciated.

Curtis Martell Desktop and Data Solutions

Hi everybody,

We have an error on our server Windows Server 2012 R2 Essential.

Title : Licence error : verification of members outside domain.

Description : Thefield outsidemembers of the auditstrategyin your environmenthas detecteda condition thatdoes not complylicensestrategy.This servercan only bein aworkgroup ora domain controller.

Resolution :Make sure theserver is in aworkgroup ora domainisController.

Our client has finally insert the server in a domain but the problem is not solved.

1. Do you know ifthis requires apurchase ofa license extension ?
2. The other question is that theirserver (this serverruns acompany of 100people!) stoppedthe lastweekend,and it seems thatitis due tothis ...Do you know ifthis can happen?

Thanks a lot for your help!

I'm a typical WHS user looking to upgrade (non-business use) for a simple storage area and being able to back up the laptops and PCs in the house.

Problem not solved:

Perhaps not a Server 2012 r2 Essential problem but my WDTV Live can't access the shared folders. After installing the media server add-on for Server R2 Essentials the WDTV Live is able to see the server via the media server but its messy and cluttered and also reports no media found within folders.

With WHS I was able to view the shared folders easily. Have not been able to enable the shared folders with the WDTV Live...

Big thanks for any help, Microsoft Server 2012 R2 Essentials seems like overkill for home use but I'm really liking it.

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Unfortunately, I did not remove IIS before installing the Essentials role, and have since had many user/setting changes before realizing that the IIS side was not working correctly. So now, IIS does not work for the website that existed before the install and all the web interface pieces for Essentials also do not work. I tried to move the old website to port 88, rather than 80, but IIS would not start for the essentials tools.

Is there any way to re-establish IIS as the Essentials role would like? I don't really want to reinstall everything, if I can avoid that. Sadly, we only have the one server, so it was our domain server, file server, and web server. This is for a small non-profit. We recently acquired licensing for Office 365 for Non-Profits and I installed the server essentials role on our Server 2012 R2 Standard and attached it to Office 365. Mostly everything was working, except for IIS.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Benjamin Gray

Gray Knight

I have an issue with the Office 365 integration module on one of my customer's Windows Server 2012 Essentials servers.

Recently they switched to a new Office 365 plan, but the integration module still thinks the customer is on the old plan. This doesn't seem to affect functionality at all, so I think it's just cosmetic. On the Office 365 tab of the Windows Server Essentials dashboard, under Subscription it lists the old plan and says the subscription has expired. Under Licenses it says "your subscription includes 0 licenses" and "0 licenses are assigned to user accounts."

Steps I've tried to resolve this issue:

1. Created a new Office 365 test user account (after switching plans) and then on the Windows Server 2012 Essentials dashboard clicked 'Change the Office 365 administrator account.' This made no difference.
2. Uninstalled and then reinstalled the Office 365 integration module. Again, this made no difference.

I suspected there might be an issue in the Office 365 back-end, where the customer's Office 365 account was somehow still associated with the old plan, but they said that wasn't the case.

I opened a service request with Office 365 support about the issue with the server dashboard, but this was their response: "As we are online service support team, we provide limited support on local application extension...you may need to contact the Windows Server support team for further help."

As it seems to be just a cosmetic issue, I'm not going to open a paid service request with the Windows Server support team, but I'm interested to know if anyone on the forum has struck this issue before or has any suggestions.

I am trying to reconnect a Win 7 Pro computer to a new  Essentials 2012R2 and when it asks me to set it up for just me or multiple users a message pops up saying it has stopped responding. It sets up a profile of _clientsetup_$ and it shows up in dashboard as an offline device. This computer was hooked up to an Essentials 2012R2 previously. Tried uninstalling the connector software, removing the computer from the domain, renaming the computer and re-installing the connector software from the http://(server)/connect. Even tried backing up the existing profiles and creating a new clean one and went through the above procedure with the same results. I set up 4 others with no issues and it would be the bosses computer that fails. I am a newbie so any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

Hi

is possible to install 2 Essentials Server : one as a Domain controller and one as a member server of the same domain?

If it's not possible, the second Essentials could be at least in Workgroup environment?

thank you

Our company has an Office 365 Business Premium subscription (25 users) which we purchased through Go Daddy.  We have a Windows 2012 R2 Essentials server and I have imported the user accounts from Office 365.  If I change a user password on the server it will not sync the password with Office 365.  I get the following message:

The Windows Server Essentials Service cannot synchronize the user password to the online identity repository.

Details

The Windows Server Essentials Service cannot reset the password for the account <some user>@<my domain>.com

Resolution

Make sure the server is connected to the Internet.

The server is definitely connected to the internet, so that is not the issue.  The issue seems to be the fact that Go Daddy, who is an authorized Office 365 vendor, is somehow not configured to allow the automatic synchronization of passwords. 

I know the synchronization feature works on my server because, as a test, I 1) created a trial Business Premium account with Microsoft, 2) created a few users, 3) imported the users to my server, 4) changed the password for one user account, then 5) logged into the Office 365 portal with the new password.

Has anyone else run into this issue with Go Daddy or another vendor?  Is there any workaround or fix? 

If not, I'm afraid I'm going to have to cancel my Go Daddy subscription, purchase a new subscription through Microsoft and then migrate all the email for 25 users.  Ugh!!

Trying to complete the installation of Windows Server 2012 Essentials on a new machine.

When I try to run the "Configure Windows Server Essentials" I get "Configuration encountered some issues" message "Please click retry...."

I have already followed http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2914651 and I'm not getting any errors in the Windows system logs. 

The Windows Server Essentials management service is starting fine.  

Any ideas here?

I'm running a Windows Server 2012 R2 with Essentials Services. I ended up switching domains with this server. I completely uninstalled Essentials server and all the dependent components with no reported errors.

I reinstalled everything with no errors.  Now when I go to the dashboard I'm getting the following errors. 

Alerts subtab is missing - Title

Cannot find the Health Monitoring add-in.  Please verify and make sure that the add-in is correctly installed.

I tried uninstalling and re-installing Essentials a couple of times but with no luck. 

Is there a way to repair this problem without wiping everything and starting over?

James Glenn

Hi, I have a problem which has been raised in several other threads, but the assistance provided has not solved my problem. I have Server Essentials 2012 and all (2) client computers are both showing offline within the devices tab of the Dashboard.

Server software is fully up to date, I have tried uninstalling KB2862551 (update rollup), uninstalled and reinstalled client software and have made no dent in the problem.

Folder redirection is working fine.

Please help.  FYI  - I'm no IT pro so please keep the suggestions simple.