This is supposed to be very simple – deploy WS2012E on server, install the DirectAccess and VPN role and that should be about it. But it seems that its not, tried this method with no success, Not just that, it also made something that prevented new clients from connecting to the network using the Connector … Read more
We have Windows Server 2012R2 Essentials in a small office. Having stubborn and uneducated users who refuse to place their files anywhere else but on their desktops I’ve decided to look into folder redirection. After setting it up in Dashboard following a simple enough wizard everything started working couple of days later. However, in some … Read more
I have a small business network with an existing Server 2008 R2 domain controller. In order to backup all the client machines with an experience something like windows home server I recently purchased a new server with windows server 2012 r2 and installed the essentials role. I’m able to connect client machines (running windows 7) … Read more
Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Server Fault. Closed 6 years ago. Improve this question We have a Windows Server 2003 server. We will install a new Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials soon. Right now when the server … Read more
I’ve been running a Server Essentials 2012 R2 single server for 2 years, it’s been reliable so far. Our business is beginning to outgrow, and I have recently added a second production server running Server 2012 R2, (eval version) My first thought was to set the second server up as a second domain controller with … Read more
A stand alone windows 2012 R2 essentials server was used to control a technical installation. Essentials was used (afaik) because of license reasons. The server is its own domain controller (and is an will ever be its own only member). The operator of the installation now wants a spare Server. In case of failure the … Read more
Running a Health Report on my 2012 Essentials server reports a critical error of: After the password change, the server running Windows Server Essentials has not received a heartbeat from the following domain controllers: my_server my_server is the server I am running the Health Report on, so it isn’t receiving a heartbeat from itself apparently?!? … Read more
I have a Windows Server 2012 Essentials installation that has RAID attached storage for all of its shared storage. I’d like to wipe the current install and replace it with Server Essentials 2012 R2. After I do that, I’d like to reattach the RAID and have all the shared folders/files intact. Can I do that? … Read more
So i am having an issue very similar to the issue described On this post A laptop user in the company was joined into the domain and was able to work both locally (with the network cable plugged in) and remotely (from WiFi in different places using OpenVPN). The user has now left the country … Read more
We had an epic failure of our Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials Server. We are running a Western Digital Sentinel 5100, and the RAID controller somehow wiped every disk (yay!). We are trying to recover the Windows image from backups we created using the Windows Server backup utility. We did full, bare-metal backups. I chose … Read more
