Overnight Microsoft announced that Windows Server 2012 Essentials has finished it’s development cycle and now released to manufacturing. This means the code is complete, and they are now just getting the distribution mechanisms sorted. As of November 1, 2012 Microsoft will have the finished product available in the channel and they expect that OEM partners such as … [Read more...]
Trying to run Windows Server 2012 or Windows 8 on Hyper-V?
If you are trying to test out Window Server 2012 or Windows 8 by running it on a Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V system then you may well see your guest machines lockup on a frequent basis. I’ve seen this myself, but only after I started to do backups on the Hyper-V host on a regular basis. To resolve this problem, you need to download this hotfix and install it on … [Read more...]
Windows Server 2012 Essentials Release Candidate available for download now
Windows Server 2012 Essentials aka the next generation of what was SBS, is now available for download from Microsoft. They announced the RC release here overnight. I’ve been doing quite some testing with this and it shows some real promise as a product for what could be something wonderful. The biggest concern I have now with the product is the pricing for those … [Read more...]
No Exchange servers are available in any active directory sites during migration
Doing an a migration today from Exchange 2003 to 2010 and once I’ve installed the Exchange 2010 server, I rebooted and logged back on to it. I got the following error “No Exchange servers are available in any active directory sites.” After a little investigation, I realised that I was logging on with the local administrator account rather than the domain administrator … [Read more...]
Where can I get the product key for Windows Server 2012 Essentials Beta?
If you are installing the public beta for Windows Server 2012 Essentials, you will have found that you can’t install it without the product key. You might have missed it, but it was displayed down in the Instructions section on the downloads page here Good luck with your testing … [Read more...]