Windows Server Essentials Tips & Tricks
May 21, 2013 3 Comments
A client popped into our office on Friday with a query, they had worked on a document saved it, but now when they went back to open it, there was no trace of it anywhere. After the usual suggestions of ‘are you sure you saved it?’ ‘have you searched for it?’ ‘are you sure you saved it?’ i asked him to bring his laptop over. Luckily he was based in the office next door so it was not a long trip.
May 3, 2013 2 Comments
I recently got myself a Nokia Lumia 820, and one of the benefits of having this Windows phone, (apart from looking like the coolest kid in school) is that i get to use the very funky My Server App. This App is nothing new of course, and SBS Essentials (and lest we forget, Home Server) also had similar Apps, very useful they are too, if like me, you are completely unable to function unless you have access to your server, from everywhere. The 2012 Era App has some differences over the 2011 version, but my post today is not really about the App itself. I was just using the App as a nice way to show off about my new phone.
So, to business. I was reading a forum question about Media Streaming, and how to go about troubleshooting.
May 2, 2013 Leave a comment
Back in November, a chap in the Forum had dipped his toe into the world of Transmogging, and encountered an error that was being thrown up in the logs after the process had completed.
The SILSVC should be started automatically but it is stopped.
April 30, 2013 Leave a comment
I got my wife’s new laptop today and set about reinstalling it under Windows 7 as she ‘doesn’t understand Windows 8’, and i sympathise.
April 29, 2013 Leave a comment
This is an issue that has caught me out once or twice in my testing and general messing about with Essentials over the last age, and also someone in the forum just posted a question along these lines so i thought it worth a post. I have been struggling with a bit of ‘writers block’* recently and this seemed to be something easy to get back into blogging again with.
* I do not consider myself to be a writer, merely a lazy admin who had nothing interesting to say.
March 5, 2013 Leave a comment
Did you Transmog your Essentials 2012 Server to remove the 25 User Limit?
Following the release recently of UR1 for Windows Server 2012 Essentials, we have learned that it is not being automatically offered to you, if your server has been transmogged.
February 6, 2013 1 Comment
Following on from my recent post about SSL issues, another topic of conversation is the actual SSL installation process for the RWA.
Again i have blogged on that before, and the new Essentials 2012 wizard makes the process a lot lot easier. However if you get stuck with generating a CSR (Certificate Signing Request) then you can always use IIS to do this for you.
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