Windows Power Essentials Tips & Tricks
June 17, 2013 31 Comments
Probably the best title for a blog post ever right? Having seen and read about a lot of people struggling with DNS resolution problems with their clients on Essentials (2011/2012) networks, and also some dubious advice being given out for how to ‘resolve’ these problems i thought i would try and get into some deep level explanation of how, and why Essentials does what it does.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The SILSVC should be started automatically but it is stopped.
April 29, 2013 37 Comments
This is an issue that has caught me out once or twice in my testing and general messing about with Essentials over the last age, and also someone in the forum just posted a question along these lines so i thought it worth a post. I have been struggling with a bit of ‘writers block’* recently and this seemed to be something easy to get back into blogging again with.
* I do not consider myself to be a writer, merely a lazy admin who had nothing interesting to say.
March 5, 2013 Leave a comment
Did you Transmog your Essentials 2012 Server to remove the 25 User Limit?
Following the release recently of UR1 for Windows Server 2012 Essentials, we have learned that it is not being automatically offered to you, if your server has been transmogged.
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