The Windows Server Essentials and Small Business Server Blog

[This post comes to us courtesy of Rituraj Choudhary & Ajay Sarkaria from Commercial Technical Support] Once the Windows Server Essentials 2012 R2 setup is complete, the server reboots to the desktop and would ask you to configure Windows Server Essentials...

[This post comes to us courtesy of Manish Kapoor from Commercial Technical Support] If you have a Windows 8 client connected to a server running Windows Server 2012 Essentials using the Windows Server Essentials Connector and you upgrade it to Windows...

Hi, my name is Chungang Liu. I am a program manager with the Windows Server Essentials Team. Today, I am very pleased to announce that My Server 2012 R2 is available in the Windows Store and the Windows Phone Store as a free download. My Server 2012 R2...

Hello, this is Yang from the Windows Server Essentials team. Today I would like to introduce you to a new way of getting Windows Server Essentials Experience running, and it takes less than 30 minutes. Of course, the magic happens with Windows Azure!...

Hi, this is Yuheng, program manager on the Windows Server Essentials product team. This is our second blog post in the two-part Services Integration series. In this post, I will introduce you to new capabilities in Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials: SharePoint...

Hi, this is Yuheng, program manager on the Windows Server Essentials product team. In this blog post, I would like to give you an overview of Services Integration, which will be followed by an additional post that is specific to new features in Windows...

Hi, this is Mike, program manager from the Windows Server Essentials team. In this blog, I’m going to talk about why and how to enable multiple instances of the new Windows Server Essentials Experience server role in Windows Server 2012 R2 in your environment...

The Update Rollup 3 for Windows Server 2012 Essentials has been released and is now available for download from Microsoft Update. You can read about the issues this rollup update addresses in Microsoft Support Knowledgebase 2862551 . The client-side package...

Hi, this is Yang and Mike, PMs from the Windows Server Essentials team. In this blog, we would like to share some of our thoughts about virtualizing Windows Server Essentials. Today, more and more businesses have begun to virtualize their IT infrastructure...

[This post comes to us courtesy of Rituraj Choudhary from Commercial Technical Support] This blogs post underlines the Product Support Lifecycle of the Windows Small Business Server 2003 and its individual components. We are publishing this information...

My name is Mike Chen, a program manager working on the Windows Server Essentials Deployment team. I’m honored today to introduce the new deployment story for Windows Server Essentials. Now available as a server role Previously, we heard a lot of feedback...

[This post comes to us courtesy of Rui Ling and Yang Cao from Sustained Engineering] The Windows Server Essentials Dashboard nowadays supports many UI extensions. In Update Rollup 1 for Windows Server 2012 Essentials , Essentials provides an important...

[This post comes to us courtesy of Charanjeet Singh from Microsoft Commercial Technical Support] We come across situations when we want to create a custom set of articles from TechNet. This helps when you are travelling offsite and you wish to carry the...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy David Fabritius from Windows Server Marketing] In this article, I’ll explain a licensing change that has been made to Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials as well as some related licensing topics when using the new Windows...

[This post comes to us courtesy of Manish Kapoor from Microsoft Commercial Technical Support] Update Rollup 2 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3 has been released and may be offered by WSUS on your SBS 2011 Standard server. The update is also available...

Products which belong to Essentials and Small Business Server family might crash if virtualized on Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V host in the event that the host crashes or loses power. The active directory instance may become corrupted and might result...

Hi there. My name is Jason Anderson, Group Program Manager with the Windows Server Essentials team, and I’m super excited to announce the availability of the Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials Preview and the Windows Server Essentials Experience server...

In Windows Server 2012 Essentials, you cannot install WSUS because the “Windows Server Update Services” role is missing in Server Manager. The Windows Server Essentials team has released a hotfix that brings the WSUS role back to Windows Server 2012 Essentials...

The Update Rollup 2 for Windows Server 2012 Essentials has been released and is now available for download from Microsoft Update. You can read about the issues this rollup update addresses in Microsoft Support Knowledgebase 2824160 . The client-side...

[This post comes to us courtesy of Charanjeet Singh and Rituraj Choudhary from Microsoft Commercial Technical Support] Certain Group Policy Objects (GPOs) are created and configured by default during the installation of Windows Small Business Server...

[This post comes to us courtesy of Rituraj Choudhary from Microsoft Commercial Technical Support] Windows Server 2012 Essentials is enabled to run on a network with the DHCP Server service running on the router. This blog post describes the method...

[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Yang Cao and Ashish Sukhija] Hello everyone, we would like to update you on an Add-In software that is now available for Windows Server 2012 Essentials. We have updated the Windows Server Essentials integration...

An enterprise hotfix rollup for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 has been released which contains 90 hotfixes released after the release of Service Pack 1. These hotfixes improve the overall performance and system reliability of Windows 7...

Windows Server 2012 Essentials Update Rollup 1 has been released today and is available for download from Microsoft Update. You can read about the issues this rollup update addresses in Microsoft Support Knowledgebase 2781267 . In addition to the server...

Hi, my name is Clinton Ho, lead program manager on the Windows Server Essentials team. I’m proud to announce the availability of the My Server Windows app , available as a free download in the Windows Store. Similar to the My Server Windows Phone app...