Turn off the Upgrade to the latest version of Windows GPO
June 11, 2015 8 Comments
I was continuing the reinstall of my lab today, and noticed a new setting in the policy template.
SBS 2011 Essentials & UEFI Client Backups
June 8, 2015 3 Comments
I have been reinstalling my lab over the last week or so, moving away from a GUI based Server 2012 running Hyper-V, to the Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 OS. I am also now no longer having to swivel in my chair 90 degrees to manage the VMs, as i have installed the Hyper-V tools on my Desktop PC.
Anyway, as part of the rebuild i trashed all of my existing VMs and have built new ones. Starting with SBS 2011 Essentials. I installed, along side it, 2 clients. Windows 7 and Windows 8. I took advantage of the new Gen2 VM for Windows 8.1 and of course ran into an issue with the client backup.
There has been a hotfix available for this issue since at least 2013, so it was no surprise that i needed to download it. Read more of this post
Windows Server 2012 R2–November Update Rollup
November 13, 2013 Leave a comment
Another quick announcement – November UR for 2012 R2, Windows RT 8.1 & Windows 8.1 includes no fewer than 15 fixes for issues that will also affect Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2887595
The most interesting fix to those deploying Essentials R2 may be:
KB 2898803 All client backup settings are removed after you start the Windows Server Essentials Management Service in Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials
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