Would you like to understand about licensing for Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials and the Windows Server Essentials Experience role then you may find the following article interesting. The Windows Server Essentials and Small Business Server Blog have this great article which hopefully shall answer your licensing questions, which you can find here.
The OEM division of Microsoft have released the following short video explaining WS2012 Essentials:
John Stutsman has posted data of the performance of a Storage Space Pool in Windows Server 2012 Essentials R2 Preview. In this second part of the series John has posted the results of his findings, plus he has a 12 minute video explaining how to create a Storage Space Pool in Windows Server 2012 Essentials […]
StableBit DrivePool have released version 2.0.0.387 BETA for users of Windows Server 2012 Essentials. This latest build has the following change log: Increased the default size of the main window to 750×300. Fixed installation script for Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials. [D] Fixed a memory leak of a few bytes when fully unloading the virtual […]
A brilliant article from techAU for those of you thinking of installing WS Essentials 2012 R2 onto a HP EX490 MediaSmart Server. Jason Cartwright explains his 10 step process to get the process complete: Eliminate data Install drives in PC Setup Storage Spaces Copy data Install Windows Server 2012 R2 Install drive in EX490 Complete […]
StableBit DrivePool for WS2012 Essentials users has had an update. Version 2.0.0.355 has the following change log (and it’s a big one!): Disk performance was stripping out the first directory component. Rewrote the find common path prefix algorithm to take the ‘\’ characters into account. [D] Added preliminary EFS support (CoveFs_EfsEnabled in .config). – […]
The Doc’s World takes a look at Storage Spaces performance but this time in 2012 Essentials R2. …this experiment ended up as all the others did, and turned out to be a waste of time on a feature not worth using especially in parity. Not good, but you can read the Doc’s full report here.
The beta build of StableBit Scanner for WHS2011, SBS 2011 Essentials, Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials and WS2012 Essentials has had an update. Version 2.5.0.2940 / 2941 has the following change log: Added .config setting to further limit the automatic scan window to certain days of the month, as requested. (See Scheduler_LimitToDaysOfMonth) Added option […]
Various fixes in StableBit DrivePool for users of Windows Server 2012 Essentials. Version 2.0.0.345 BETA has the following change log: Fixed disk enumeration failure. If a directory was marked as read-only on the pool (not in Explorer, but actual attribute), when removing a disk, that directory would get migrated properly, but would not be deleted […]
Another update for StableBit DrivePool for Windows Server 2012 Essentials Version 2.0.0.333 BETA has the following change: Fixed service crash after removing the last disk in the pool. You can download StableBit DrivePool from here.
