The Essentials of Essentials

The Essentials of Essentials

Jeremy Anderson – Small Business Server MVP

Essentials 2012

Todays Session is a Three

Parter

:

Regular Old Utility type stuff.

Cool Fun Stuff

Need to Know = Killer Apps.

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Fun Stuff – Play With the Server

Mute your Sound !

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What is Essentials

Separate “Product Edition”

25 Users / 50 Devices

Must Be Domain Controller

Transition From Essentials

Media Services Disabled

Enables De-Dupe

Allows you to run client backup still but exist as a full featured Server

Licensing

Essentials 2012 - > purchases as Essentials 2012.  No

CALS

Required.  Has

NO

virtualization rights.   

Essentials 2012 -> Purchased as Essentials 2012 + 1 LOB server.  Requires

CALs

now for any amount of users / devices

.

Server 2012 – Purchased as server 2012 & downgraded to Essentials 2012 – requires

CALS

for any amount of users

Essentials

2012 – Purchased as server 2012 – Now w/ 27 users - > requires Server 2012 license and 27

CALS.

Anywhere Access

Anywhere Access is a two part feature out of the box that includes VPN and Remote Web Work Place.

Remote Web Workplace is awesome

Play Music and Movies in any Browser

Work With Files and Folders on the file share

Remotely Access your computer at work

RemoteWebAccess.com

A custom domain name for Remote Web Access (for example, yourhostname.remotewebaccess.com). Your domain name is associated with your public IP address.

A dynamic DNS service so that Remote Web Access using your domain name will not be interrupted if your public IP address changes. Typically, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) for your organization’s broadband connections provide dynamic public IP addresses which can change.

A trusted certificate associated with the domain name.

Remote Desktop vs. Console

Server 2012 is “server manager based”

Media Streaming

Works with DLNA

(Digital Living Network Alliance) technologies. You can “see” these DLNA-compatible media servers in Network Explorer, under the Media Devices group

:

Stream Music and movies over the web.

Tips N TricksAccessing the server

My Server App

http://blogs.technet.com/b/sbs/archive/2013/01/29/my-server-windows-app-for-windows-server-2012-essentials.aspx

Available for Windows 8 / RT

Windows Phone App

Windows Phone 8

Windows Phone 7.5

Any Web Browser.

Tips N Tricks Customizing the RWW Page

Links Names Photographs

Supported Client Operating Systems

Windows 8, Windows 7, Macintosh OS X version 10.5 to 10.8.

WSUS

Can Now Be installed on Essentials 2012

Was Previously blocked

Download

and full details are available in Microsoft Knowledge Base

article

#2762663

.

Install The hotfix

Server Manager / add roles and features

Wizard to Install WSUS

Implement Group Policy

Group Policy For WSUS

DHCP and DNS

Designed for “Zero Configuration” DHCP on the RouterCan be set up on the Server if necessary

Installing DHCP on Server

Configure Static IPDisable any other DHCP servers on networkConfigure DHCP

Office 365 Integration

Subscribe

to Office 365, or configure the server to use an existing subscription.

Perform

the following Office 365 account management tasks from the Dashboard

:

Bulk-create

Office 365 accounts for network user accounts

.

Bulk-create

network user accounts for Office 365 accounts

.

Assign

new or existing Office 365 accounts to network user accounts

.

Manage

the Office 365 account assigned to a user account throughout the lifecycle of the user account. For example, deactivating a network user account also deactivates the Office 365 account that is assigned to the user account.

Office 365 Integration

Synchronize passwords for network user accounts and Office 365 accounts. This allows network users to sign in to Office 365 using their Windows password

.

Link to Office 365 a professional Internet domain that you have set up on Windows Server 2012 Essentials.

Users And Computers in Console

To add a user in the console use PowerShell.

To Add a computer install the

LaunchPad

Client Backups and Bare Metal Restore

A

hotfix is available to add backup support for UEFI-based computers to back up to servers that are running Windows Home Server

2011:

http

://

support.microsoft.com/kb/2781272

A hotfix is available to add backup support for UEFI-based computers to back up to servers that are running Windows Storage Server 2008

R2 Essentials:

http

://

support.microsoft.com/kb/2781274

A hotfix is available to add backup support for UEFI-based computers to back up to servers that are running Windows Small Business Server

2011 Essentials:

http

://support.microsoft.com/kb/2781270

Bare MetalRestore

Create USB Key or DVD

Direct Access

No more VPN

Direct Access

The

certification authority (CA) root certificate is incompatible with

DirectAccess

. Therefore, after you deploy

DirectAccess

on a server, a Windows 7-based client cannot establish a

DirectAccess

connection to the server.

Note

This fix takes effect only if Update Rollup 1 for Windows Server 2012 Essentials is applied before

DirectAccess

is deployed on the server

Installing Updates !

Windows Server 2012 Essentials Update Roll Up #1

You

are not automatically offered Update Rollup 1 for Windows Server 2012 Essentials from Windows Update if you follow the steps that are provided in the following Microsoft TechNet

topic:

Transition

from Windows Server 2012 Essentials to Windows Server 2012 Standard