Windows Power Essentials Tips & Tricks
February 14, 2014 4 Comments
Listening to the ‘Home Server Show’ podcast recently, the conversation inevitably steered towards Client DNS on Essentials. It reminded me that i had written a script last year, to manage the UR3 feature of Essentials 2012 that being ‘DNS AutoDiscovery’ but never actually shared it.
I uploaded it to the TechNet Gallery today.
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.
May 4, 2012 10 Comments
Update – This post will also apply to Windows Server 2012 Essentials
I have seen a number of posts on the forums about people who are having trouble with DNS Resolution on SBS 2011 Essentials.
Sean Daniel posted an excellent explanation of the how’s and whys of Essentials and DNS, and why the Server has a Dynamic IP… <shudder>
Anyway, knowing why something does something, and not being happy with it doing it, are two separate things.
So, if you want to force your DNS Forwarders to be something other than your Default Gateway, or, to use something else instead, you can build a simple scheduled task to do this.
November 25, 2011 43 Comments
I had a customer email me yesterday with the following symptoms…
This particular client is located in France, so a site visit is a little tricky. Luckily they had a second computer, and we could talk through Skype. I did some basic connectivity tests like ipconfig, the IP was reported as 0.0.0.0 with a subnet mask of 0.0.0.0. Read more of this post
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