Robert Pearman

HP MicroServer Gen8

June 13, 2013 3 Comments

What can i say about the HP MicroServer, if you haven’t heard of it then I’m not entirely sure what you have been doing since HP released their first version way back in 2010. Championed by most of the SMB IT Community (I’m yet to meet someone who doesn’t like it) it offered a fantastic set of features for a very, very competitive price and because of that was the ideal box for a whole host of scenarios.

From providing Client Backup Services to the computers in an office, to being put in a cupboard underneath my TV the MicroServer has proved to be very versatile. Mine has an HDMI Video Card in it, and we use it as a media PC to watch netflix etc on. I know Tim Barrett has so many MicroServers in his house, he has actually built a new room out of them. Read more of this post

Filed under General, Tips & Tricks Tagged with Gen8, Hardware, HP, MicroServer

Update Rollup 2 for Windows Server 2012 Essentials

June 13, 2013 1 Comment

You may have seen that Microsoft have released Update Rollup 2 for Windows Server 2012 Essentials.

The update resolves some issues documented in the KB here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2824160

If you deployed the beta of UR2 you will need to remove that before you install the full version.

If your client computers show offline after installing this update you may need to reboot the server and the clients.

Filed under Essentials, General, WSE Tagged with Essentials 2012, UpdateRollup, Updates

Enabling WSUS on Windows Server 2012 Essentials

May 31, 2013 22 Comments

Skipping over the usual boring intro on the whys and wherefores of a subject i write about i thought id just crack on and tell you how to get this done.

First on your Essentials Server you will need to install this hotfix. After you install this hotfix the WSUS Role is available.

That is correct, WSUS is a ROLE not something you need to download as it was previously.

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Filed under Essentials, General, PowerShell, Tips & Tricks, WSE Tagged with Essentials 2012, Updates, WSUS

Lost a document, opened and saved from email

May 21, 2013 4 Comments

A client popped into our office on Friday with a query, they had worked on a document saved it, but now when they went back to open it, there was no trace of it anywhere. After the usual suggestions of ‘are you sure you saved it?’ ‘have you searched for it?’ ‘are you sure you saved it?’ i asked him to bring his laptop over. Luckily he was based in the office next door so it was not a long trip.

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Filed under General, Tips & Tricks Tagged with Files, lost, missing, Office, Outlook, recovery, Windows

Windows Server 2012 Essentials : Media Streaming Problems?

May 3, 2013 2 Comments

I recently got myself a Nokia Lumia 820, and one of the benefits of having this Windows phone, (apart from looking like the coolest kid in school) is that i get to use the very funky My Server App. This App is nothing new of course, and SBS Essentials (and lest we forget, Home Server) also had similar Apps, very useful they are too, if like me, you are completely unable to function unless you have access to your server, from everywhere. The 2012 Era App has some differences over the 2011 version, but my post today is not really about the App itself. I was just using the App as a nice way to show off about my new phone.

So, to business. I was reading a forum question about Media Streaming, and how to go about troubleshooting.

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Filed under Essentials, Tips & Tricks, WSE Tagged with App, DLNA, Media, MP3, Phone, RWA, SSL

Windows Server 2012 Essentials : After Transmog SILSVC Error

May 2, 2013 5 Comments

Back in November, a chap in the Forum had dipped his toe into the world of Transmogging, and encountered an error that was being thrown up in the logs after the process had completed.