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Windows Server 2012 Essentials : Add a Network Printer

October 24, 2012 by Robert Pearman 30 Comments

I have seen and heard of people struggling to install printer drivers in mixed x64 and x86 environments, it has been a problem for a long time now, probably as far back as XP x64, certainly it was an issue with SBS 2008.

The problem being in order to install a printer on the Server, you need the x64 bit driver, but on a client pc you may be on x86 (32Bit) Windows, so you need a different driver.

Essentials 2012 is no different. So, i thought i would just get an example together using a printer i have here in the office, an HP Laserjet 3055. This is a good example actually because when you install it to WSE12, it picks up a valid driver, but there is no equivalent driver for Windows client available from HP.

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Quick Fix: Cancel Email Forwarding Exchange 2007/10

October 24, 2012 by Robert Pearman 2 Comments

Had a call from a client who needed to cancel all automatic forwarding of email to one recipient.

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Filed under Exchange, PowerShell, Quick Fix, Tips & Tricks Tagged with Exchange, PowerShell

On Prem Exchange Windows Server 2012 Essentials: The Script!

October 23, 2012 by Robert Pearman 1 Comment

A few months back, i posted up about how to deploy the On Premises Integration between WSE12 and Exchange.

As part of that post i completely glossed over the method to install the Exchange Server promising to publish the PowerShell script i had written ‘soon’.

Today, my great friends, is that day.

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Enable DirectAccess on Windows Server 2012 Essentials

October 15, 2012 by Robert Pearman 125 Comments

This post is now quite out of date and the instructions within are no longer reliable. Please refer to Microsoft’s own document online for the relevant steps.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj204618.aspx

One of the coolest improvements in Server 2012, is the simplification of DirectAccess. Not just the steps to enable it, but the requirements for your infrastructure to support it. In the past it was beyond most SMBs due to the need to have 2 consecutive public IPs a dedicated DA server, IP 6to4 translation capable equipment, and not to mention Windows 7 Enterprise, which few SMBs deploy. Moving into the 2012 line of products DA has become much more available to SMBs with the reduction in infrastructure requirements. Taking Essentials as an example, we can now run DA using just a standard Internet connected router, and with just our Essentials box as the DA endpoint.

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Filed under Essentials, General, PowerShell, Tips & Tricks, WIN 8, WSE Tagged with DirectAccess, Essentials, Win8

Quick Fix: SBS 2003 Lost Cals

October 12, 2012 by Robert Pearman 6 Comments

This is well known and well documented issue, there is an excellent post from SBS MVP Phillip Elder on his very popular blog about it and has the perfect resolution. http://blog.mpecsinc.ca/2007/09/sbs-lost-cal-recovery-or-reset-cal.html

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Windows MultiPoint Server with SBS 2011

October 8, 2012 by marinamvp 4 Comments

MultiPoint server can be joined to the SBS 2011 domain, just like any other server. However, before the MultiPoint server (or any other additional application server) will show up in RWA, we will have to add a special registry key and add the server name on the SBS 2011.