Windows Server Essentials works best for small organizations with minimal IT requirements, whereas Windows Server Standard is more. The Windows Server Essentials Experience is a server role that is available in the Windows Server R2 Standard and Windows Server INFO: The WSEE Installer was built using Windows Server Standard OS WSEE , and software assurance gives us the Server Essentials for free.
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Feel free to network via Twitter vladan. Experiences with SBS some years back were not good. As well as the points you make, its stability was poor with perhaps around a crash a week, compared to months of trouble-free running with Standard.
Essentials has absolutely nothing to do with SBS , there are no other products bundled with it, like Exchange or Sharepoint added with and Also Windows Server has evolved a lot since , and reliability of Essentials has been on par with Standard for a long time.
The problem, as the article states are the limitations, but for a small business with less than 15 seats is more than enough, with room to grow and an easy upgrade path to Standard if you need it. I totally agree with you. As far as I remember, the tool just silently returns back to the command prompt on success.
Otherwise, it will list an error on failure. Or, you can open an elevated PowerShell prompt and type:. Which indicates that the list of dependencies should be separated by a forward slash just as I have them in in step 6. However, the documentation I linked you to states that the dependencies should be surrounded by quotes and separated by spaces. For example:. Thank you so very much.
EDIT M. It allows you to preserve file permissions etc. What I ended up doing was mounting the C drive of the server with WSEE installed and then copying the files over one by one.
After numerous attempts at trying to fix file permissions, I eventually gave up and started with a fresh install. After copying the files as suggested above, it worked perfectly. Oh and also I forgot to mention. I just left out the -Setting parameter. That just sets how Windows update should work. It runs fine without that parameter and you could always manually configure Windows updates afterward.
Any chance you can provide a password so I can download the MSI file that you guys built? I really appreciate any assistance you can give. Hi, is it possible to purchase the installer for WSEE on Server without purchasing one of your products please? A quick question, do you recommend that after the initial installation of Server that I should install WSEE before I join to the domain and install other roles or features? Or can I do it at any point?
If you want to join your server to an existing domain i. Thanks Mike. Then install WSEE. Does that sound like a plan? However, I do understand that some folks prefer to run Essentials as a member server, rather than having it be the primary DC.
See this comment and this comment posted above. Which is also mentioned in the this comment as well. None of your posts have been deleted. How long should the MSI installer take? Just want to make sure everything turns out the way it should. In most cases unless you have a really slow server , I assume that it should indeed take less that 10 minutes to complete adding the required roles and features. Other than that, you could try manually installing the five prerequisite server roles and features as shown in step 2 of the manual installation steps if you continue running into issues here.
Manually installing the prerequisite server roles and features one-by-one via an elevated PowerShell prompt would also let you see if an error is popping up when they are getting installed. There is a script that someone created to check Essentials installation which admitedly does only support up to but that returned no errors either.
Any ideas? Many thanks Jon. Hi Mike, An update to my message…. Thanks Jon. Otherwise, you can look at the following web pages for information on how to use a redirect in order to go back to the old behavior:.
Remote Web Access login page Redirect. Remote Web Access does not redirect as expected. Hi, this is intriguing. I am moving from a Essentials and would ike to use I have a clean server up nd running. One question how well does this hold up to regular windows updates?
Any concerns there? Thanks for your reply, although to clarify you only mention standard or datacenter for your installer, does this work on the essentials version new install. As a result, you cannot i. I have absolutely no idea what those things are. When you setup a standard Windows server, and add essentials to it, do you still need to make this the primary DC? Curious if I eliminate my current Essentials server then implement this version, if I can make my secondary DC the primary and leave it that way.
When you install WSEE on Windows Server Standard or Datacenter, you can indeed configure it as a member server where it is not the primary domain controller, but rather joined to another existing domain controller on your network.
Do you have any thoughts on how to migrate from Essentials to and retain the same IP and name? I am even thinking of using the same server.
All my stuff is on an array on an E: and F: drive so was thinking of replacing the primary drives with new ones of the same kind and rebuilding following your guidance. I would just like to be able to tie it back to my existing backups and not have to have all our workstations have to rejoin the domain.
Personally, I feel that unless you have some really pressing need to utilize features that are specific to Windows Server , that you should simply stick with using Windows Server Essentials instead. It kept the name and IP, etc. Thanks for the heads up on the tiered storage issue. Great, thanks again for your support and for making my Server Essentials running as a proper Essentials version for 8 months now without any issues. Most appreciated. While I personally would of liked for it to have been a free benefit for the Essentials community especially since it is most likely based off of the work done here , I do understand that it takes time and effort to produce such content as well as the costs involved to host it, etc.
Because of this, I am unable to vouch for the accuracy of its contents, but I will go ahead and leave the link to it here for those who still wish to view it. So if I did decide to trash my Essentials server and create a fresh install, how would I do that without loosing my domain? If I then build a server and add the essentials role would I need to switch it back to be the master or would that automatically happen? Would all the computers still be on the domain or have to be added again?
That being said, there are others who have successfully done domain migrations from earlier versions of Essentials over to Windows Server with WSEE installed. In fact, see the comment right below this one for a link to a nice Microsoft article that walks you step-by-step through the entire domain migration process including transferring all of the FSMO roles over to the new based domain controller, etc.
And yes, according to that document, you will indeed need to uninstall the Windows Server Essentials Connector software from all of your existing client PCs, and then install the newer version of it from See the Microsoft-provided documentation for further details. The WSEE installer worked great for me! However, I had a glitch to overcome as a result of my specific transition scenario, so wanted to do a quick post here to point out the problem and workaround for others.
While Microsoft provides a process for doing similar migrations see Step 2: Install Windows Server Essentials as a new replica domain controller , an additional step is needed if the source server in my case, the Win R2 Server was itself the destination of an earlier migration from an older server in my case, SBS The configuration wizard successfully ran through the pre-requisites verification step and correctly identified the server as a domain controller. However, after it started the actual configuration process it stopped with the message:.
If this issue still exists please refer to the help link for more troubleshooting steps. This time, the Configuration Wizard ran to successful completion. Thanks again for sharing your experience with everyone, and you are most welcome for the WSEE Installer.
After i downloaded now the german version from your wsee. To marry a client with the wsee is no Problem, but after i set up wich drives to backup i tryed to run the first backup. But no suckses, every time the Clientbackup service is crashing.
But always at a different Time in the Backup. I have no Idea what i could do that the one service is not crashing anymore. On the same machine at a second harddisk is my primary w with manual installed wsee in english and work without any problem.
Please try looking in the following location on BOTH the client computer AND on the server itself to see if there are any log files that give you an idea as to why your client backups are failing:. Just sort the log files within the folder by their modification date, and then look at the newly modified log files to see if you can find any information within them related to the client computer backup service crashing i.
Some news, client backup now is working. The Problem was some corruptet file in the clientbackup folder on the server and every time it was trying to acces that file the service on the server was crashing. Delted the folder and recreate it in the wsee dashboard than it was working. But i now have a other Problem, after the backup was working i want to chance my second client to the new server.
Every thing is fine expect, the second client shows allways offline. Have now add in lights out for the server the lights out bulp in tray on client shows server online. Tryed to uninstall kaspersky on client but that changed nothing. But befor uninstall every essentials app have all pewrmissions.
And that client was working with the english server essentials without problems too with kaspersky installed. Could you please give me again some hind where to search.
The last hind with logs was good that was showing me the read error. But now i have no logs because after the marriage from client with server the client is allways offline so i cant set up even the backup.
Glad to hear that client backup is working for you now. Thus, about the best I can tell you here is to check out the log files on both the client and server; and in the same location that I mentioned to you in my prior comment to see if you can find any indication as to why the connection is failing. Other than that, have you tried completely uninstalling the connector software from your client computer, and then reinstalling it again?
Is the client computer properly joined to your Essentials domain? However, in order to successfully use the script on Windows Server with WSEE , you will need to edit it by opening the script in a text reader such as Notepad, etc. Hi Mike, Thanks very much for this. When I load server manager it tells me that configuration is required for the Active Directory Certificate Services. I have tried a few times and get stuck at that place all the time.
Did you happen to run into any issues with any of the earlier steps? Finally figured it out, spaces were needed where none were and some were where none were needed lol. I have yet to test remote connection using the connector but other then that it now works fine.
I have to admit that what you did requires a lot of work Believe me, I know having been a network analyst for more than 30 years so congrats are in order, this is awesome!!!!!!! I had to delete the virtual storage pool on my server since windows said it belonged to a different domain. It seemed to be working great — thanks! PS — I turned it off and then on again, but no difference. Okay, realized that my storage space was just My inability to create a client PC may be related to the tiny pool it initially created, which was only 10GB.
So I deleted the pool in Server Manager, got the 4 drives I have in the Primordial pool of available disks and went to the Essentials Dashboard. When I try to create the storage space in the Dashboard, it says to select drives to create the storage space, but none are shown. Maybe others with experience in this area will jump in and provide you with some further assistance.
After the successful reinstall of the connector software, make sure that its tray icon is green and shows that the client is properly connected up to the Essentials server and not grey or red, which indicates a connection problem.
Lastly, please be aware that if your client computer is running Windows 10 , then there are LOTS of reports of issues with getting the client computer successfully connected up to the Essentials server appearing over on the Essentials boards. Storage Space comment: Yep, read that comment. Yeah, I checked and the selected drives are online, and I can put files over to the two test drives with no problems.
However it does NOT wipe out the other drives, which contain my old storage space. Good suggestion about looking in the essentials board — thanks for the link and the suggestion to stay out of trouble! There were no errors, and the storage space was recognized just fine by the server Dashboard.
Once everything is working properly i. Windows 10 version is a complete and utter mess IMHO. Apparently when Windows 10 gets updated to version , it wreaks havoc on the installed Windows Server Essentials Connector software i. Optional After the above program has been successfully uninstalled from the client computer, manually delete the following folders from the client computer if they happen to still exist:.
Optional Delete the following registry key branches using Regedit. Connect computers to a Windows Server Essentials server without joining the domain.
Get Connected in Windows Server Essentials. I actually run into this issue quite a bit with W10 bi-yearly updates screwing up the WSE connector on W10 computers joined to a domain. It creates a registry entry that makes it so that when you reinstall WSE connector on domain joined computer, it will skip the domain join step and just install the connector software. I found this information here Connect computers to a Windows Server Essentials server without joining the domain.
Yes as mentioned above , the SkipDomainJoin connection method is well documented by Microsoft over on their website:. Hi, Thanks for this. We upgraded from server Essentials to server standard before realising essentials was no longer included.
I was planning on upgrading to a newer Windows server OS soon. I would like to still use the Essentials server roll option that Microsoft removed after server Yes, the client backup feature in all versions of Windows Server Essentials i. They just want client backup feature available for use. Yes the client backup feature does indeed work under the Essentials SKU. Thus, you might as well give them a platform that is fully supported by Microsoft. I hate that Microsoft abandon Server Essentinal with this great feature.
I tried a test installation in a VM. Everything is working except third party plug-ins. There is no error during installation. Do I have to copy some other Files or modify anything else? Very strange. Glad to hear that you got the add-ins working in a different VM though. Not a single file is modified nor altered in any way. Third party add-ins are indeed fully supported i.
Your best bet there would be to contact the manufacturer of the add-in directly and ask them about it. I got it running following your instructions above, but am continuing to see a problem which also existed in Essentials where the storage service gets confused and declares a folder offline even though the underlying disk still exists.
The generally accepted workaround according to Missing server folder alert, but folder is still present! Is it possible that registration of the event sources got missed in your instructions above? Thanks for figuring it out! As is mentioned at the top of the manual install steps shown above, the steps only represent the bare minimum that is required in order to get Windows Server Essentials Experience installed, and working, on Windows Server If someone is looking for a straight forward easy, complete, and proper install, then we suggest using the WSEE Installer package instead.
I have a couple of quick questions. My original WSEE server was demoted and removed from the domain, blanked, reinstalled fresh as , re-joined to the domain, and started at your steps from there. Does the WSEE config process in fact promote the member server to a domain controller? If not, can the member server be promoted to a domain controller AFTER the config process has completed successfully? If you want to keep the domain name and server name from your old Essentials server, just be sure that the old server is offline, and then use the exact same domain name and server name when configuring your new Windows Server with WSEE installation i.
Unless you have lots of users, and have heavily modified your Active Directory, Group Policy, etc. Whereas, on a normal installation of WSEE, the server will automatically get configured as a primary domain controller for you as part of the Essentials configuration process.
I myself have never tried installing WSEE on a server that was already configured as a domain controller. The key for me was understanding whether or not WSEE configuration was attempting to promote the member server to a domain controller during the process. It was the first server in the environment, created the new domain etc. Thank you Mike!! Promoted that server to a secondary domain controller for the DOM domain 3. I checked the box and clicked OK, but then the installer disappeared and nothing seemingly happened.
I looked around for any running processes none and checked the new Server Essentials deployment Event Log that the MSI created in my Event Viewer but nothing no events.
On first logon after reboot, the Windows Server Essentials configuration wizard launched. I cancelled the wizard without completing it. Restored data from backup to ServerFolders. Kudos on making the migration work, and a big thanks for sharing how you accomplished it with others here.
It might have something to do with the state of the migrated server. That being said… If it happens to anyone else, then they can simply restart the server as you did , or they can just manually run the wizard by executing the following program anytime after the main installation has successfully completed, or after any subsequent restart of the server that takes place during the Essentials configuration process :.
Have you seen this behavior? I was making an assumption that functionality would have been deprecated in Windows and not likely to come over with the WSEE installation. Here are the rules:. The Server Infrastructure Licensing service silsvc.
And yes, I do recall reading that the grace period is more accurately represented as 28 days vs Typical Microsoft.
BTW, quick question for you… May I ask why you opted to cancel the configuration wizard and then manually run the Start-WssConfigurationService PowerShell command without any arguments instead?
Was that not the case? I know… WTF? Also, I read somewhere on this page that you advised somebody else not to run the Configuration Wizard, but instead to run the PowerShell command, because you assumed the Wizard would fail during role check, since the actual role did not exist and was not installed. PowerShell Good! I had a bad feeling that the Wizard would either fail and hose my WSEE installation, or possibly even worse it might succeed and hose my working domain.
I actually think the wizard would have worked just fine for you. I suppose that in those other comments you reference that I made, I was indeed probably just assuming that it would fail. No harm, no foul, on your config though seeing as the wizard simply executes the PowerShell command in exactly the same way as you did manually. Good to know that it will work without it and that it will just use the credentials of the signed in admin when omitted.
Doing this will cause client computers to go into a strange state when reconnected to the server. Excellent tip! Thanks again for sharing your findings with everyone.
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The new server functionality was designed for seamless cloud integration and simplified management across hybrid cloud environments. This blog post provides a detailed comparison of Windows Server Essentials vs Standard, which can help you determine which Windows Server edition works best for your environment.
In a nutshell, apart from comparing Windows Server Essentials vs Standard editions, this blog post also answers the following questions:. What is Windows Server ? Built primarily for cloud computing users , Windows Server simplifies the transition of on-premises workloads to the cloud. With its advanced server functionality, you can easily adapt to changing business requirements and build a high-performance, secure, flexible, and affordable production environment.
What editions are available in Windows Server ? How has licensing changed? This way, you can:. The adoption of core-based licensing has introduced a more consistent and unified approach to licensing across environments, allowing support for mixed environments.
What I found was this, everyone of my server installs over 68 of them locally, the client just wants simple email, and file management. Shared Files is their biggest concern. Once place for all data, and a simple backup which I use cloud backups for now-a-days.
As for email, I just have them sign up with Office That way you don't have to worry about day to day operations of email Heck for a small office, 5 users or less, I even use Windows 10 Pro version as the server. File Management, Cloud based backup. And for some offices, up to 10 users, I've just used an NAS as the "so-called" server.
Perfect for file management and "cloud based" backups. While "tech ego's" I have worked with, say that Win 10 Pro, as a server is "ridiculous", I have to consider this. The end user and their day to day operations. The simplicity of their needs is my main concern I don't need to sell and maintain expensive servers, software, configuration, profiles, operations, etc..
I quit thinking so hard You don't have to use the Wizards in Essentials if you don't want to - you can manage everything manually. However, using the Wizards to setup users will ensure they are integrated properly in the Dashboard wish is needed if you want to use the workstation backup feature. If you don't plan to use the Dashboard, built-in monitoring reports, etc.
Always standard. There is no reason to purchase a gimped version of an operating system because "you don't need it today". The cost of licensing it for this purpose always cost way more. Because you'd need additional licensing and with Microsoft licensing terms you might even be out of compliance then. If you're virtualizing and you should be download Hyper-V its completely free install that to bare metal and go from there. What is a server?
It's a really popular PC. It's a chatty Cathy with its neighbors and gets a lot of requests to use its stuff It may run services that the other computers need to centrally organize their requests think QuickBooks. However, it's just a computer. If you would like to make compliance and security easier Also that Office integration will require TLS 1.
You can still harden the security on an Essentials server by disabling many of the other insecure protocols, ciphers, etc. In fact, in my WSE RemoteApp add-in, I implement a script and other security settings that automates all of this hardening stuff for my customers while still leaving TLS 1. Basically, Microsoft needs to recompile the assemblies being used by Essentials so that they support a higher version of the.
Unfortunately, Essentials is pretty much considered to be abandonware by Microsoft now, and so unless something really forces their hand on this issue such as a major security breach in this area, etc. How to resolve Azure backup agent issues when disabling TLS 1. While it will enable an older. NET v4. Without Microsoft directly implementing the fix within their own assemblies or possibly by some other forceful means within the.
One can only hope that Microsoft will eventually step up and natively implement TLS 1. See this comment below for a bit more info. For WCF using. NET Framework 3. Based on that Microsoft documentation, the WCF framework in. Unless Microsoft has changed something in this regard, disabling TLS 1.
Additional testing is most definitely warranted here before folks proceed with implementing it on a production server IMHO. Mea culpa! Someone needs to buy that Joe Mills bloke a beer for figuring this one out! When you choose to disable TLS 1. REG file that can be run on all of your client computers in order to add the required. NET Framework security settings. With TLS 1. Sounds like you put together your own reg kit. Enabling TLS 1. Last night I had to re-enable TLS 1. It would not run successfully until I re-enabled TLS 1.
Then it ran successfully, then I re-ran the PFS script. Still having trouble with some clients mapping drives but not others. Is there a way to post to the TLS 1. Temporarily enabling TLS 1. Any info as im running server with the above working, but i only use the automatic DNS name registration and updating for remote connection to router etc, ie the remotewebaccess.
As this is all i use dont use the backup or anything else, just the domain name for access to emby server and my router. You can have up to five different Microsoft personalized domain names associated with a single Microsoft account. Followed your details steps to the letter, eventually ;o. I did seriously consider buying something so I could get the msi but decided to go the manual route. Some copy and pasting later I had a rudimentary robocopy script to copy the required files and folders to USB and another to copy it to the standard install.
Then copied and pasted the other requirements, sanitizing the text in notepad. Have you seen anything like this before? See here and here for more info. So am I best starting my build again from scratch or is it recoverable, I will look through the links you sent now.
Everything has been going well since in installed your WSE installer on a fresh Std install. This is all i see in the Backup log. Please stop the conflicting operation, and then rerun the backup operation.
Disk management then becomes unresponsive. After a reboot everything looks OK and all my drives are good as far as S. Contemplating started again from scratch if I have too but would rather not. So looked at the wse installer on your site and the one I used.
When I re-run mine it says in need to run a cleanup exe first and the site one says the older version must be removed first. Will that have any ipmpatc on my data saved on the server? Other than that, have you tried running the backup repair wizard on your client computer backups just to see if that helps any?
That way, if you ever encounter issues such as this one, you can just restore the server back to a time prior to when the problem first started occurring. I prefer a clean start to these things anyways so will go that route, plus I have an image of the server pre wse install which will speed things up.
I use the server backup process but also have a secondary image backup using Acronis TrueImage. It was Acronis that helped me out this time. Regards Christophe. Please go back and try again. Tried Firefox and new Edge. Converting a current evaluation version to a current retail version. I believe that it has been fixed now. So if you want a server running longer than the 3-year extended trial, you have to buy a WS Standard license, right?
Three years is quite a long time though. By that time, a completely new version of Windows Server will be available Windows Server , etc. There is no resolution that I can find on the web. Very thorough! There wasnt an option Will this do all of the basic things without hosting the domain?
So… Just as with and R2, , and that preceded it , Essentials must either be or see a domain controller and cannot be configured in a Workgroup. By default in an out-of-the-box install , Essentials is configured as the primary domain controller on your network.
That way, the configuration wizard for Essentials will see that the server is already joined to another domain, and it will then configure the Essentials server as a member server within that domain instead of configuring it as the primary domain controller. This is just how Microsoft designed Essentials to work, and it has nothing whatsoever to do with installing Essentials on Windows Server I followed your instructions above, I think, correctly and in the order that you specified.
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String, Boolean at System. FileMode at Microsoft. String at Microsoft. Run Microsoft. ITaskDataLink at Microsoft. RunTasks System. HandleWindowsUpdate System. RunInitialConfiguration at System. RunInternal System. ExecutionContext, System. ContextCallback, System.
Object, Boolean at System. Run System. CallCallback at System. Fire at System. Faulting application name: SharedServiceHost. Looks like one of the dependency files are missing on your system. Best I can tell you here is to try it all again while making sure that you have properly copied over all of the required files along with their required permissions.
You can find the Logs folder here:. At line:1 char Hi Mike, ive gone ahead and got the MSI installer. You must use Windows Server Standard or Datacenter instead. Whereas, the WSEE installer performs a much more complete, and proper, installation i. You should simply continue to enjoy it as it stands. Thx, Mike. Your manual process is still working, only two things: Setting -All gives an error — but can omitted as somebody mentioned, and the server name is not changed and cannot be changed later.
So change server name before starting the process. In every test I run, the server always gets re named properly for me here. I tried again, still no change of name. The EE part works well, the WS part not so much.
I end up with a very limited administrator role, cannot access the network adapter or change the name of the server. When I expand the administrator role, I get locked out of the server on the well known trust issue. Now getting your product. Your installer works as intended, it seems. I must have made an error somewhere in the manual process. Long running R2 Essentials server, in-place upgrade to Server Essentials. Bare metal restore to R2 Essentials. In-place upgrade to Server Essentials.
Create a server backup just in case I need to roll back to In-place upgrade to Server Standard. First problem: All of the server essentials services were set to disabled.
Turned on what I needed to automatic and rebooted. Hey, would you look at that? Dashboard looked much happier. Only thing I seem to have lost are the server backups from and In place upgrades from prior versions of Windows Server Essentials and even domain migrations are just going to end up causing you a lot of extra work and grief in the long run. Thus, and as Robert Pearman mentions in his article, it only seems to present itself as an issue when doing an in place upgrade from prior versions of Windows Server Essentials to Windows Server Essentials.
Nice find on locating and linking us to his fix for the problem though. Windows Server Essentials , etc. The wizard will then recognize the in place upgrade, and configure it accordingly. I have been using this on a server of almost a year now with everything working great. I have upgraded my Windows 10 PCs to version and now they show offline and not available in the console. Doing that will force the connector software to skip joining the client computer to your domain a second time and messing up your user profile on the client computer.
Thereby saving you a lot of grief in the long run. I get the following error:. Can that be language related or build related page redirects me to What version of Windows Server vNext are you using? Received my first update for the experience role and all updated perfect. Thanks for your continious support Mike. The latest NET Framework 4.
Great Guide. First time running through it. Everything went fairly smoothly minus some missing spaces in my copy paste in step 6 preventing service creation until step 8. The system cannot find the file specified.
InvokeEsse ntialsConfigureServiceCommand. You must of missed it while performing step 4 in the manual install instructions. Now there is a new build available: Windows Server Preview Build I could download that and upgrade, but that would be wise, I suppose? Microsoft is currently releasing new builds of it at a feverous pace about once every week or two. I had a working setup a year or so ago when the article was published, but my recent attempts at this all fail.
I went as far as installing server , updating it as of Jan 1 , installing the role, but not configuring it, then sharing the whole c drive. Went back to my box and wrote a script in cmd to run all the powershells in order, then robocopy the files. Did the services, the firewall rule, and vpn fix. But I cannot start wssconfiguration from powershell. The solutions there were to ensure the config wizard was not run on the install. Does the installer available free with purchase of another product still work on the most recent server install?
Are you running the PowerShell cmdlet from an elevated i. Run as administrator PowerShell prompt? Good luck!
Thanks for your reply, Im sure its much more straight forward with the installer, I need to look over your products and either choose the least expensive or see what seems interesting. If you want to look at it, here is my script that I am running as admin as a notepad file saved as wsee.
I have tried it manually too, The error I get running it on a bare stock version of winserver with all the switches is. So its something in the files not allowing wssconfigurationservice to start. I was wondering if it had to do with the latest build versions of winserver or winserver, since this write up and the original source files are just over 2 years old. A final question on the installer, If I license your least expensive product and use the installer on my dc, but then reimage it say a year down the line, or upgrade to , will your installer still work since its the same physical pc?
This could possibly be due to a permissions issue on the following file:. If you simply re-install on the exact same Windows Server product edition e. Standard or Datacenter , and underlying hardware or VM configuration , then you will be just fine even after in place upgrading to , etc. Perfect, thanks Mike, Im still looking into your products on what may be valuable in a homelab environment, but just to update. I did get the manual method working, my script actually had two typos in it, one line i robocopyed from z: to z: instead of c: thus not actually copying anything, that was the start menu and if you look closely at the wsssetupcmdlets copy, you will notice that i am copying it to the wrong directory, thus not allowing the setup to run.
I have corrected these errors, and all ran well. Thanks again for your pointers. Sorry to make a software dev read through my terrible batch programming.
But hey, it was quick and dirty, and in the end after fixing typos, it did work. Im sure theres a more efficient way of writing it, but I like automation, which is why im still probably going to buy a product to look into the installer.
Glad to hear that you found those typos, and correcting then resolved your issue. Nice sleuthing! So hopefully that will just fix me up. Thanks for your support.
Thanks again Mike, I plan to format and reinstall serverstandard prior to using your installer just to ensure nothing goes wrong. Its a Homelab and not production, so I can do that basically whenever I choose lol, but as for the VPN fix, I have already applied both of those. The error I am getting is more similiar to what is described here: Set up Anywhere Access wizard completed with errors, VPN was not configured successfully.
I am going to wait to see what happens when using your installer. Just to update, it seems like everything went well when using your installer, Anywhere Access and VPN have installed and configured successfully. Perhaps Mike, you may want to look into silently installing this package with the WSEE Installer, just to save users that step.
Folks will simply need to follow the download link that Microsoft provides and manually install the appropriate version of the Windows ADK on their servers for themselves if they want to enable the client restore feature.
I remember seeing this message when I used it last time, but I thought I could proceed at my own risk. Now it just ends the install. I do not care about any other pre-WSE19 features. Is there a way to only install the WS backups feature?
Why not just convert i. Can I use a previous installer version to do the install anyways? It has worked perfectly for me on the server I have reloaded a few times. Hi Mike! I installed the Install WSE Experience on Server successfully and was able to configure everything per your excellent write up.
Please contact your administrator. Other than that, have you by chance disabled TLS 1. If so, then you might want to try temporarily re-enabling TLS 1. One thing I did not work out is whether you have to setup e. Is there a way to run the configuration wizard for the Essentials Experience rather than doing it through the command line?
If not, then it is probably worth calling out the need for these steps to be done as part of the preparation steps as, once setup it seems impossible to change some of these settings, at least if the server is the Primary Domain Controller.
Glad to hear that the manual installation went well for you. WSEE sure does work really nice on it though. For more info on why see here. This is just one of the many things that the WSEE Installer nets you over attempting to do the installation manually.
The WSEE Installer will result in a MUCH more proper, complete, secure, and maintainable installation seeing as it does way more than I could ever possibly explain in a succinct list of manual install steps. Got the health warning that an update was available, so I downloaded and ran the updater. It seemed to work okay, but I still have the health warning. Does it still come back again even after doing that?
Thanks for bringing it to my attention. Thanks for looking into it! Have you done the tests? The Microsoft Online Integration Services seem to be a real mess. That being said… I broke down yesterday and set up a 30 day trial for Microsoft Premium , and tried testing out the integration stuff.
Sure enough, it always fails with the the above mentioned generic error under both and Microsoft has also implemented something called security defaults in Azure Active Directory , and since enforcing the enabling MFA on all of your user accounts within 14 days is part of this security feature, you will need to disable it as follows:.
My question is how do I fix the issues with Microsoft Cloud Integration Services failing when configuring them? Unfortunately, there are just way too many steps involved in making the online services integration features work properly for me to be able to provide them within the succinct list of manual install steps which are already fairly lengthy and complicated.
If I already followed the guide and have WSEE working on Windows , but need to get Office Integration working can I just run the installer, or do I need to remove it and start over? I would agree but it would be a lot of work to rebuild this server. I ran the install and it appears to have worked. Office integration is now working.
Thank you for the help. Thanks for letting everyone know. Only I had prob with setup, but after I created domain manually, everything went smooth. Is the license somehow connected to a hardware fingerprint?
Because the only thing that comes to mind is that I have upgraded my motherboard and cpu in my server since originally installing wse. Any way to get that fixed up? Yes it is. Registration Key be reset in order to resolve that issue. I took a few days off to celebrate the resurrection of our Lord and Savior with friends and family. Can I deploy N. For this scenario the branch office server have to be a dc? Please let me know. As mentioned in the main article above, the WSEE Installer is only made available to existing license holders of our software products e.
Thanks Mike, Just wanted to confirm for other interested persons, the installation of WSEE on server standard which had been updated in place from a configured Server Essentials server.
The event logs indicated the error, which was the permissions on a registry key. All domain settings, Azure backup and other applications working without any changes.
Thanks for the pointer to the permissions error on the registry key. Thanks for taking the time to let everyone know how the install went for you.
Alas, after severe messing around to get VPN access working, the Devices tab no longer shows the Server itself. Is there any way to add the Essentials server back to the Server Device tab? Hi Mike, now that server went into preview Announcing Windows Server —now in preview do you suggest to switch I always like to be as updated as possible or do I have to reinstall when final version is out.
All of your settings, etc. What is your policy on refunds if by chance the installer does not work after purchasing a product for the purpose of downloading the installer? The thread is a bit long. As stated on our Policy page , we have a no-questions-asked day refund policy on all of our software packages.
Windows Server Essentials edition is a cloud-connected first server designed for small businesses with up to 25 users and 50 devices. However, if you are considering installing any version of Windows Server Essentials, we would encourage you to consider Microsoft With Windows Server , the Essentials edition is available to purchase from OEMs only, however there is no specific installation media.
Instead, an Essentials edition product key is used to activate the Standard edition of Windows Server You get all the same features.
Learn how to get started with Windows Server As a result, all the relevant documentation is found in the Windows Server documentation area.
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