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Windows Azure Online Backup and Windows Server 2012 Essentials

Posted 8 months ago

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Hi my name is Yang Cao, program manager on the Windows Server 2012 Essentials team. If you have been following the news on Windows Server 2012, you must have heard about Windows Azure Online Backup . Today I’m happy to announce that we released the Windows...
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Health Report for Windows Server 2012 Essentials

Posted 8 months ago

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[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Yang Cao from Windows Server Essentials team] Hi my name is Yang Cao, program manager on the Windows Server 2012 Essentials team. Today, I’d like to introduce you to a new add-in we released for Windows Server 2012...
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Migrating to Windows Server 2012 Essentials

Posted 8 months ago

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[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Rong Yu from Windows Server Essentials Team] Hi my name is Rong Yu, program manager on the Windows Server 2012 Essentials team. Today, I’d like to give an overview of how to migrate to Windows Server 2012 Essentials...
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Windows Server 2012 Release Candidate Essentials available now

Posted 8 months ago

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[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Joe Nalewabau from Windows Server Essentials Team] Great news! We reached another important milestone on the road to the final release of Windows Server 2012 Essentials: the Release Candidate (RC) is available now...
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Update Rollup 3 for Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials Available Now

Posted 9 months ago

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Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials Update Rollup 3 has been released today and is available for download from Microsoft Update. You can read about the issues this rollup addresses in KB2705117 . In addition to the server-side update, a client...
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Windows Server 2012 Essentials Deployment

Posted 9 months ago

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[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Clinton Ho from Windows Server Essentials Team] Hi, my name is Clinton Ho, Senior Program Manager on the Windows Server Essentials team. Today, I’d like to introduce you to Windows Server 2012 Essentials deployment...
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Growing Beyond 25 Users with Windows Server 2012 Essentials

Posted 9 months ago

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[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Cristian Molina from Windows Server Essentials Team] Hi, I’m Cristian Molina, Lead Program Manager on the Windows Server Essentials team, and today I want to share with you more information around our growth story...
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Known Issues after Installing WSUS Update KB2720211

Posted 9 months ago

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Few issues have been encountered after applying WSUS update KB2720211 on Small Business Server 2003 (If WSUS 3.0 is present), Small Business Server 2008, and Small Business Server 2011 Standard. WSUS team came up with a blog post which covers all these...
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Email Options Supported by Windows Server 2012 Essentials

Posted 9 months ago

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[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Rong Yu from Windows Server Essentials Team] As Joe mentioned in a previous blog post , one of the key capabilities of Windows Server 2012 Essentials (Essentials) is the flexibility of choosing different types of...
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Windows Server 2012 Beta Essentials Localization Release

Posted 9 months ago

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[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Duncan Chalmers from Windows Server Essentials Team] What an exciting time for Windows Server! We are pleased to announce an addition to the beta for Windows Server 2012 Essentials. Today we are releasing the following...
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Windows Server 2012 Essentials feature list

Posted 10 months ago

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[Today’s post comes to us courtesy Joe Nalewabau from Windows Server Essentials Team ] Now that the beta for Windows Server 2012 Essentials (Essentials 2012) has been released, many customers and partners have asked for a “feature list” for Essentials...
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Download the beta release of Windows Server 2012 Essentials today!

Posted 10 months ago

by SBS Bloggers
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Hi, I'm Joe Nalewabau, Group Program Manager on the Windows Server Essentials team, and today I'm excited to introduce the beta for Windows Server 2012 Essentials (Essentials 2012). We announced the beta on the Windows Server blog and in that post...
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Windows Small Business Server Essentials becomes Windows Server 2012 Essentials

Posted 10 months ago

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[Today's post comes to us courtesy David Fabritius from Windows Server Marketing] Hi everyone, I'm writing today about a significant milestone for Windows Small Business Server (Windows SBS). With the new Windows Server 2012 line up, Windows Small...
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Server Backup known Issues and Resolutions

Posted 10 months ago

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[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Ning Kuang from Sustained Engineering] A new wiki has been released to address all reported issues and resolutions of Server Backup feature in Window Small Business Server 2011 Essentials, Windows Home Server 2011...
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Where is my SQL Server 2008 R2 for Small Business Product Key?

Posted 10 months ago

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[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Moloy Tandon from Commercial Technical Support] Windows Small Business Server (SBS) 2011 Premium Add-on includes Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Standard Edition for Small Business . If the product was purchased via...
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Known Issue in Windows Server Solutions BPA Update Rollup 3

Posted 10 months ago

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After you update Windows Server Solutions BPA with UR3 and execute it on Small Business Server 2011 Standard, it displays a warning: The /EWS virtual directories maxRequestLength doesn't match the get-transportconfig MaxSendSize The checking logic of...
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Windows Server Solutions BPA Updated June 2012

Posted 11 months ago

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[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Shammi Dua and Charanjeet Singh from Commercial Technical Support] Update Rollup 3 for WSSG BPA (KB 2699813 ) is now available via Microsoft Updates, along with its installation tool (KB 2698659 ). How to get BPA...
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How to Use Full Disk for the O/S Install in Small Business Server 2011 Essentials

Posted 11 months ago

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[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Moloy Tandon from Commercial Technical Support] By default, the setup of Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials creates a Windows partition of 60 GB and the rest is used for data drive. If you wish to use the...
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Remote Web Access Is Not Allowed For Your User Account

Posted over 1 year ago

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[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Rituraj Choudhary from Commercial Technical Support] After Small Business Server 2011 Standard has been updated with Update Rollup 2, some users may not be able to log on to the Remote Web Access with the following...
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Empty ‘CN=Servers’ Container Causing Issues with Public Folders on Small Business Server 2011

Posted over 1 year ago

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[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Mohammed Sabir and Shammi Dua from Commercial Technical Support] When migrating to Small Business Server 2011, you may experience Public Folder Replication failures and users unable to send mail to mail enabled...
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Introducing Microsoft Support For Small Business Portal: Helping Small Businesses Get Back To Business!

Posted over 1 year ago

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[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Marie McFadden from Engineering, Community and Online] The Microsoft Support for Small Business experience provides small businesses with easy solutions for technology issues. With the small business online support...
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Key Small Business Server 2011 Essentials Log Files

Posted over 1 year ago

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[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Ashish Sukhija and Rituraj Choudhary from Commercial Technical Support] In SBS Essentials the location of the log files is under C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows Server\Logs . From a support perspective this can be...
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Understanding Remote Web Access File Sharing

Posted over 1 year ago

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[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Gagan Mehra from Commercial Technical Support] Remote Web Access file sharing is the new feature added to the Small Business Server 2011 family. It allows users access shares and the files they contain on SBS server...
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Windows Small Business Server 2011 Premium Add-on FAQ

Posted over 1 year ago

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[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Ning Kuang from Sustained Engineering] A new wiki has been released that answers FAQs around deploying Windows Small Business Server 2011 Premium Add-on. For more information, please visit http://social.technet...
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Hotfixes are available to address Computer Monitoring Error in Launchpad or Dashboard of SBS 2011 Essentials, Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials and Windows Home Server 2011

Posted over 1 year ago

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After you updated a server that is running SBS 2011 Essentials, Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials or Windows Home Server 2011 with the Update Rollup 2, you receive the warning "Computer Monitoring Error" in the Launchpad or Dashboard...