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re: Update Rollup 1 for Windows Server 2012 Essentials Available Now

Ken — Wed, 08 May 2013 00:48:41 GMT

The Windows Server 2012 Essentials Hosted Email Framework SDK contains an extended sample that describes how to create and build a hosted email add-in provider, a log monitor, additions to the Dashboard UI, as well as a custom Windows Installer package. The sample also includes a simulated email service, which the provider links to in order to demonstrate simple email features.

I Download the package from www.microsoft.com/.../details.aspx and install the Windows Server 2012 Essentials SDK package on the development machine and was looking for this file

%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft SDKs\Windows Server 2012 Essentials\6.2\samples\HostedEmail

Can someone let me know were to acquire this sample file?

re: How to Manually Create the Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard and WSUS Group Policies Objects

pperry803 — Mon, 06 May 2013 16:05:45 GMT

Would love to see a post how to and best practices for setting up WSUS on Windows Server 2012 Essentials.

re: Update Rollup 1 for Windows Server 2012 Essentials Available Now

Ken Potter — Sun, 05 May 2013 15:21:24 GMT

I have installed the Rollup 1 on Windows Server 2012 and Essentials for the 3th party email and I have no clue where the interface is

re: Running DHCP Server on Windows Server 2012 Essentials

Matic Group — Fri, 03 May 2013 00:28:34 GMT

Recommended is you should have a world class router as essentials doesn't provide that out of the box. Yet , if you prefer so , after reading the product doc and buying the router and configuring everything on router , "if you prefer so" ? Well , thanks for the pictures though we never knew how to set up DHCP :-)

re: Running DHCP Server on Windows Server 2012 Essentials

Lyle Epstein — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:15:16 GMT

Why even create the service Windows Server LAN Configuration and not use the server to be a DHCP server? I can remember since NT 4.0 MCSE certifications that you should always have the server be a DHCP server and not a router. I don't understand the new Microsoft thinking that a router should perform critical functions like a DHCP server when Windows has been doing it for many years without issues and many more configurable features then a off the shelf router.

re: Enterprise Hotfix Rollup for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Available Now

To Tyler — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 06:27:29 GMT

I'm guessing that comes back. The mapped drives issue with the red x is a cosmetic thing.

re: Enterprise Hotfix Rollup for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Available Now

Tyler — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 15:35:52 GMT

This seemed to fix the haunting Red-X issue I'd been having with network shares and mapped drives.

re: Enterprise Hotfix Rollup for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Available Now

To MikeN — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 02:48:31 GMT

"It would be good to know if this will be a part of regular updates and supercede the 100 updates that automatic updates detects on a new install or if you should disable automatic updates and manually install this rollup first. "

This is not offered up via Microsoft update. It only will be deployed if you install it manually.

re: Enterprise Hotfix Rollup for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Available Now

Mike N — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 13:18:18 GMT

This is good news. The amount of patches that needed to be installed on a new install of Windows 7 w/ SP1 was getting to be a bit ridiculous at over 100. Next best thing to a SP2 which will likely never happen because that would extend the support lifecycle of Windows 7.

It would be good to know if this will be a part of regular updates and supercede the 100 updates that automatic updates detects on a new install or if you should disable automatic updates and manually install this rollup first.

re: Enterprise Hotfix Rollup for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Available Now

Joe Scott — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:18:16 GMT

There's many worthy hotfixes included in this pack. Very generous of Microsoft to put out such an update. Would still be great to see Service Pack 2 for 7 & 2008 R2. It's a shame that this and RDP 8.0 won't be made available for Server 2008, and by extension Small Business Server 2008, however.

@AngusCS

SBS 2011 is built on Server 2008 R2 which this update applies to.