Version 2.0.0.310 BETA of StableBit DrivePool for WS2012 Essentials users has been released with file system refinements. Here is the full change log: Fixed UI lock up due to a deadlock in the service. [D] Completely reengineered how file performance is measured. We no longer parse ETW events in real-time, this is slow and unreliable. […]
The Windows Server Essentials and Small Business Server Blog has posted a article on the new WS2012 R2 Essentials explaining the new server role as well as other goodies. Virtualization, running R2 in the cloud, Azure Active Directory and the modernized Remote Web Access are just some of the topics covered, which you can read […]
Episode 126 of the BYOB podcast this week is about Server Essentials 2012e R2, Server 2012 R2, Windows 8.1, and the final words on Mike’s Haswell builds. Good stuff, which you can find here.
Episode 124 of the Home Tech podcast takes a first look at the Windows 8.1 Preview and Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials Preview with Hyper-V. You can find the audio here, or watch the video below:
Its that time again for another episode of “The Home Server Show” podcast: “On this episode of the Home Server Show we are going to install (or try) Windows Server 2012 Essentials R2 on my HP N54L. During the install we will be looking at Jim Collison’s install screens and going over what’s new, Virtual […]
The pre-release version of "My Movies Home and Essentials Server Solution" for WHS2011 and WS2012 Essentials has been updated to version 2.14 PR2. Here’s the change log for this version: Added: Title merge functionality, to better handle copying of discs. Fix: There was a problem with the added functionality of ensuring correct the path to […]
In wS2012e you cannot install WSUS because the “Windows Server Update Services” role is missing in Server Manager. But now a hotfix has been made available which brings the WSUS role back to Windows Server 2012 Essentials and "The Windows Server Essentials and Small Business Server Blog" have a great article/tutorial on how to get […]
Redmond Magazine online has a nice article on WS2012 R2 Essentials explaining what’s new etc: Microsoft added two new storage improvements in Essentials R2. SharePoint libraries are now integrated in the product and Microsoft added a server folders view… The 2 page article can be found here.
As we informed you yesterday Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials can now be installed from Windows Server R2 Standard or Datacenter by adding it as a role (feature). Fellow MVP Daniel Santos has written a tutorial (in Portuguese) on how to accomplish this which takes us through the necessary steps. Thanks to Google Translate here […]
Additional resources on Windows Server R2 Essentials have been made available by Microsoft and include a product datasheet and a 14 page product overview guide.
