Group Policy And Folder Redirection
I recently migrated from WHS 2011 to WSE 2012. At present I am mostly pleased with the product. I'm not using Storage Spaces as I am wary of some of the issues I've read about and I wasn't using any...
View ArticleIs There Anyway To Get Bluetooth Service To Run In Wse
I have a spare Bluetooth dongle lying around and would like to get Bluetooth service on my server it acually isn't headless it is an Asus desktop that I have converted to a server the only problem is...
View ArticleSchedule Tasks Via Group Policy Wont Work On Client
Hello everyone, I am trying to configure a policy-defined scheduled task on my client computers. Unfortunately it wont work like it is supposed to. The tasks cannot not even be seen in the task...
View ArticleN40L - Hibernate Missing
Hi there, I've upgraded from WHS2011 to WS12E and am currently looking for a way to activate the hibernation feature (suspend-to-disk). I have only the option to turn off the machine completely,...
View ArticleBitlocker - No Tpm + Startupkey Only
Hi there, I'm currently trying to secure my server's OS drive with bitlocker. The server has no TPM chip, so I've set my policy settings so that this doesn't matter. What I want is to decrypt the...
View ArticleStablebit - Can I Remove/reformat Disk W/o Loosing Data
Colleagues, I added a new 3 TB HDD to my data pool but formatted it as MBR instead of GPT so I am not getting the full 3 TB worth of disk I am supposed to have. There is data already in the disk....
View ArticleMedia Center Extender Account Access
I have a windows server 2012 essentials server working as a domain controller and centralized storage device for three client PC's. 1 windows 7 ultimate and 2 windows 8 pro. All three are joined to the...
View ArticleWindows Home Server 2011 Managed Raid 5
Hi all! Last year I acquired an HP Microserver N40L and I've only now managed to fill it with 4 x 3TB Hard Drives and I've moved the 250GB system hard drive into the top bay. I then re-installed...
View ArticlePotential Whs Build
I haven't got any experience with home servers but they seem like a good investment. I want one to stream media around the house and back up all our data. I am a bit worried about drivers for WHS 11...
View ArticleAfter Bitlocker, Issues When Rebooting (No Os?)
Hi there, earlier today I encrypted my server's OS drive with bitlocker, so that a USB drive is needed for decryption (see here...
View ArticleWhs 2011 Been Shutting Down For Past 7 Days
Hi Guys I noticed my WHS 2011 has been shutting down for no reason. I have tried going to Maintenance Screen but it is always blank like it is not recording anything. But in the Problem Details...
View ArticleAcces Shared Folders Or Homegroup Folders From Eminent Em7075 Networkplayer
I have setup a win 8 pro as homeserver with the help of terry,s pdf. All works fine in my homenetwork, my htpc (win7 ultimate) and win 8 pro laptop can use the shared homegroup folders with my movies...
View ArticleLaunchpad Crashes, Dashboard Won't Run At All
All of a sudden, neither work. Launchpad crashes with the error "Windows Server Computer Launchpad has stopped working". Dashboard does nothing at all. I have uninstalled, rebooted, and reinstalled...
View ArticleServer Backup Setup Issues Wse 2012 R2
Windows Server Essentials R2 Preview My questions are at the end, so the rest is background info. I managed to corrupt my server backup and now several services are not able to start, including...
View ArticleServer Wont Play Ball With Shared Folders
For some odd reason, shared folders wont appear on the server website. Decided to check with the Dashboard, and they dont appear there either. Just keeps telling me that its 'Refreshing the list of...
View ArticleServer Restore Failed (Disk Size To Small?)
Hi there, I am trying to restore my server's OS drive using bare metal restore (booted up with install media and chose system image recovery). I had the OS installed on a dedicated 60GB SSD. Using...
View ArticleLights Out Manual Uninstall, Whs 2011
After removing a number of other Add-ins, Lights-out started to behave erratically. I have noticed this before and the solution has been to uninstall, then reinstall, LO. However, on this occassion, I...
View ArticleHow To Wake Up The Server On Demand?
I'm using the trail right now and I have configured lights-out to my liking. My question is once the server is sleeping is there any way to wake it up without using wake on lan or a scheduled task?...
View ArticleCan't Suspend Server?
Just installed the new version and I no longer have the option to suspend server on demand. it is grey out, and also Automatically wake and boot and resume is checked and grey out so I can't unselect...
View ArticleHow To Offsite Backup The Backups?
I backup my WHSv1 to an internal HDD which I then remove and take off site. However, after backing up the server, I'm noticing only enough space was used to backup the shared folders (142GB used on the...
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