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For many small businesses this is a good way to automate client backups and it works well, at least it did until Windows 10 was released and the essentials connector software stopped working. Windows 10 and Windows 10 feature upgrades break the server essentials connector. At the time of writing we have been waiting well over a year for an official Essentials Connector release for Windows For reasons best known to Microsoft they have held back on resolving this issue but there is a workaround that gets the connector working again for all versions of Windows 10 and will get your client backups working again.

The connector will now install as usual and on completion the client will appear online again in the server devices dashboard and backups will work again. Note , at the time of writing all subsequent Windows 10 feature upgrades, i. Am I missing something? Verified the server received update KB Downloaded and installed Windows Edited Registry within the server to Kerberos Authentication 6.

I did exactly the same procedure and the client installed without any problems. Are you installing the updates from a local drive or a network drive? I have seen problems when running them from network shares or mapped drives. Please copy this password:. Please paste the password here:. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website.

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Click Change date and time , set the date and time to the correct date and time, and then click OK. Try again to connect the client computer to the server. For instructions, see Connect computers to the server. If you still cannot connect the client computer to the server, make sure that the date and time on the server are correct.

If the date and time are not correct, change them. Log on to the server using the password that you set up during Windows Server Essentials or Windows Server Essentials installation and configuration.

On the client computer, try again to connect the client computer to the server. I get an An unexpected error has occurred. On the server’s Start page, open Administrative Tools. When I try to connect a computer to the server again after an unsuccessful connection attempt, I receive the warning A computer with this name is already connected to the server. If an earlier attempt to connect a computer to the server was canceled or interrupted, you might receive the following warning when you try to connect again: A computer with this name is already connected to the server.

This happens because a certificate was issued when you tried to connect to the server the first time. Solution If you are sure that no other computer with the same name is already connected to the server, click Next , and then follow instructions to complete the Connect my computer to the server wizard. When I attempt to connect a client computer that is running Windows 7 Home to the server, the web page for running the connector software opens, but the client computer cannot connect to the server.

If the router on your network has multicast enabled, communications between the server and a client computer running Windows 7 Home Basic or Windows 7 Home Premium do not work correctly. Disable multicast on your router. On some routers, that might include disabling the RIP-2M routing protocol. For more information, refer to the documentation provided by the router manufacturer.

If auto logon is set for the user account when you connect the computer to Windows Server Essentials, the setting is overwritten when the connector software is installed on the computer. Solution To resolve this issue, when you connect the computer to the server, note the password that is used for the user account.

After the connector software is installed, configure auto logon to use that account. Uninstalling a prerelease version of the connector software does not remove existing logs. After you update from a pre-release Beta or RC version of Windows Server Essentials to the released version, you must remove the connector software from each computer that was connected to the server, and then connect the computer again to install the released version of the connector software.

If you do not delete the Logs folder, the log files can become corrupt when you connect the computer to the released version of Windows Server Essentials. Solution To avoid corruption of the log files, manually delete the Logs folder before you reconnect the client computer to the updated server.

Connect the computer to the server again. That installs the released version of the connector software, creating a new Logs folder and log files. During the installation of the connector software, numerous checks are performed against the client operating system to ensure the client meets all the connector prerequisites. If you upgrade the client operating system after you install the connector software, some of the prerequisites might not be present, and the client connector might fail.

Before you upgrade your client operating system to a different version for example, you upgrade Windows XP to Windows Vista or Windows Vista to Windows 7 , you should uninstall the connector software.

Use Add or remove programs in Control Panel. However, since it ended up working so well, we decided to just go ahead and make it freely available to our existing customers as a simple way of saying thank you to them for all of their support.

User Name in order to submit a request for the download password via our email support form. Where can i begin to troubleshoot the proces. Is your Windows Server Standard or Datacenter install fully up-to-date with all of the latest Windows Updates installed on it? Other than that, you can try looking in the Logs folder just to see if any of the log files in there happen to list something that gives you a clue as to why the installation is getting stuck.

You can find the Logs folder at the following location on the server:. I typically sort the folder by date modified and then start looking through the log files from top down. You can open the log files in Notepad, and the newest entries will be listed down at the very bottom of the file so start there and then move upwards looking for any clues as to what might be causing the problem. Hi, Ive Re run through all the steps on a new fresh install and have gotten further but i am stuck at starting the start-wssConfigurationService.

Here Is What I Get. Any Suggestions? InvokeE ssentialsConfigureServiceCommand. The individual services are physically started by the Start-WssConfigurationService PowerShell cmdlet, and it appears that that particular service is failing to start for you. After that, the server Dashboard application starts up and runs just as expected. So… The manual install steps seem to be working just fine. There are four bracketed […] values that you need to replace with your own specific entries for your specific server while keeping them surrounded by quotes.

Hi, Thanks For The Reply. All 8 SC Create Commands were created successfully. It has done this 3 time s. When the Essentials configuration wizard runs, it modifies some of the required files and registry entries. The key here is that you want to cancel out of the Essentials configuration wizard before it completes i.

After doing that, you can then run Windows Update as many times as it takes to get the installation fully up-to-date which, as of this writing, is OS Build Hi, Just A Quick Update. Thanks for taking the time to let me know that you got it working. Wow what a great guide that took all your time and efforts to make. Thank you so much and it works great!

You are most welcome. Then i was stupid and had bad luck, i got a license for the datacenter from an good friend that works in a it company. Sector read error on the backup hdd. SO what to do now a destroyed system because startet restore interupted with the read error. No running server any more and every client in home is asking for the server network drives. So why not use the new with the functions i need. Could you please help me? Sorry to hear about the corruption of your backup data.

Since you mentioned that you are using the ADK method to extract the source files from the install. Mike i used now your wsee. Every thing works now, as it should. So I think your installer works with International versions without a problem. Only thing I ask me is what happens when Microsoft release a new big update. Sometimes it use the same inplace routine like the upgrade from to Will the wsee role then every time be deleted?

We see in future. I assume that you must of been most of the way there with your manual install attempt, and that the MSI simply got you past whatever was missing and hanging you up on the last step. However, if I get enough requests, I may incorporate the required files for other languages as well starting with German since it seems to be the most popular language for our customers other than English that is. Instead, it should just be treated as any other installed. NET application would be and survive the upgrade process intact.

However, whether all of the required server roles, etc. Also, WSEE from Windows Server would be getting pretty long in the tooth by then, and so maybe it would indeed be time to move on to some other solution at that point. Who knows though. No did not mean a version upgrade of Windows like to , mean a partial update like the fall creators update.

This also installs a new image of windows but same version of windows like befor. Spent allready the last night Hours in front of my Server, to restore every thing drive pools etc. OS Build And, all that needs to be done in order to update an older WSEE install running on Windows Server is to simply overwrite those two files with their newer versions. Easy peasy! Thanks for such a useful guide!

I did an in-place upgrade to Server yesterday and found out very quickly that the Essentials role was not included. I just wanted to add something which I hope will assist someone in the same boat as me. I already had a pre-configured domain and did not want to pick that apart or do a fresh install just to get this to work My backup plan was just to run a Server VM.

I assume that since your server was previously configured with the WSEE server role before you upgraded it to Windows Server , that most of the configuration of the domain controller, etc. However, I also assume that if you did attempt to run the Start-WssConfigurationService PowerShell cmdlet that it would fail at some point due to your server already being set up as a primary domain controller, having the CA already installed on it, etc.

It is very interesting that WSEE is working for you without running the cmdlet though kudos! Admittedly though, I have never tried doing that manually via the Start-WssConfigurationService PowerShell cmdlet although the configuration wizard does call Start-WssConfigurationService, and so I assume that doing so would work just fine as well.

Will you be updating the source every so often to make sure that the Essentials Role components are up-to-date for new installations? Would you suggest keeping a small VM with able to keep updated and then doing some for of version checking between the VM and the installed code maybe a PowerShell Script to do this, and then update if needed?

Thinking about doing this on my Home Server as I would like to have access to the improved Hyper-V, the Linux subsystem and containers from on my home server to run up some home automation stuff without having yet more hardware but need to see how manageable it will be….

I will definitely be keeping a watchful eye over the future Windows Server updates to see if Microsoft makes any changes to the WSEE source files. And if they do, I will indeed incorporate the updated source files into a newer version of our WSEE Installer in order to ensure that all new installations are fully up-to-date.

Therefore, it might just be easier for me to specify exactly which files have changed, and then you guys can go ahead and manually overwrite those files with their newer versions as required. Version 1. What should I be using as the domain? Any assistance you could provide would be greatly appreciated! Therefore, the -NetBiosName parameter used in step 8 should be set to the domain name that you want to use for your Essentials server. Hi Mike, thanks for putting so much effort into this guide.

One question tho: How does the licencing work? Do we have to buy a bunch of [expensive] CALs for Server , or can we use the 25 users included in Essentials? Giving me a hint on this matter would be great. Greetings from Germany, Jonathan. It took a crazy amount of work to figure all of this out and write it up, etc. For more information see the fourth and fifth paragraphs in:. Working now for 3 months with this Server with essentials role installed and I absoutely love it. Thanks for all the work you did on this and would recommend for all home users coming from server Thanks for taking the time to post back and let us all know.

I have tried this a few times with fresh, updated installs and keep getting this error, any ideas of what I am doing wrong? Mine was working perfectly thanks to this guide, although now for some reason it is broken? Has this happened to anybody else possibly a windows update?

Also the email service is broken. Is there a way someone could make a video and post it on how to do this? Perhaps someone else will step up and produce one for the community. Use performance counters to diagnose app performance problems on Remote Desktop Session Hosts. Server Standard: I start with a virtual machine and install Server Standard, I do not activate. I have a license but want to make sure I can successfully install this first. I then install all available updates.

Once fully updated, I locate the all folders and copy them. I then export all the registry keys. Server Standard: I install Server Standard on a virtual machine again do not activate.

Then I proceed with installing the rolls in Step 2. I then copy back all the folders in Step 3 and 4. Now, in Step 5, I just double click on the registry keys to install. I proceed with Step 8 with the following;.

Your help is very much appreciated. The Microsoft links are extremely confusion. First off, you do not need to activate your Windows Server source install, nor your Windows Server destination install for any of this to work. It is quite involved seeing as a lot of work was put in in order to get it to successfully use the Essentials configuration wizard , and so it is not something that I plan on attempting to walk folks through building here as doing so would take pages and pages of explanation, etc.

Thank you for your quick reply. I decided to try something different. After a restart, the WSEE was installed successfully!! If so, which wizard do I run since there are several wizards in that folder. Again, thank you for all your help!! I still have absolutely no idea why the cmdlet is giving you that error about the -Setting parameter no being found when you attempt to use it as stated in my list of steps.

I had to jump through all kinds of hoops in order to get it to work properly via our WSEE Installer package. Believe me, if it was easy, then I would of instructed folks to use the wizard instead of the PowerShell cmdlet. It is great and still working but I have an alert that says my firewall is not configured correctly and I think it was after installing remote acess.

Do you have any thoughts on what may be the problem? Thanks in advance. Thanks for this nice tutorial! As I have a licence for Server Essentials lying around, I guess I could also install it as a virtual machine on my Server , right? Heck, you could even go a step further and set up a second copy of Windows Server Datacenter as a Virtual Machine as well, and then install WSEE on it by following the list of manual install steps given above.

Thank you! Teach me for not spotting that Essentials had been removed. Remote Access complains, but works…. Will have to wait and see what happens with the client backups….

Is there anyway you could do a step by step video and host it on Youtube. Maybe someone else will step up and make one for you guys who are requesting it. As I mentioned above, the installer was written strictly for our own internal use and was never intended to be distributed to the general public.

The instructions were not completely clear to me. At step 3 you say copy the 7 folder from:to my question is copy them from the server installation but to where?

Same for step 4, copy them to where? Last question, am I using a windows server standard or windows server essential as my source. After you cancel out of the wizard, go ahead and run Windows Update over and over until the server is fully up-to-date. Go ahead and run Windows Update over and over until the server is fully up-to-date. Maybe you can solve this for me. Let me know if I can send them to you. No offense taken, All of the steps taken were easy and error free for me up to step 6, when I typed this code in that you had posted it gave me errors.

All of them for from step 6. I figured maybe I typed something wrong, so I saved the webpage as a pdf, which then allowed me to simply copy the code and paste them one by one and still the outcome was the same. This happens to be the first time for me installing a service from this approach, so it took me a moment to follow you instructions.

Thank you. So, what might I be doing wrong with your code? The only suggestions that I can offer you there is:. Make sure that all of the quotes surrounding the values are standard straight quotes and not those fancy curly quotes. Otherwise, the command line will most certainly fail seeing as it requires elevated privileges in order to be successfully run.

My apologies for that. However, you do have a nice suggestion to print i. Thanks for sharing that tip. I copied exactly what you had listed and pasted it in an elevated command prompt. Can you show me exactly what response I should see after running anyone of these commands. How to create a Windows service by using Sc. 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.

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You are only charged for the resources consumed during the upgrade, including: Compute Engine Use the pricing calculator to generate a cost estimate based on your projected usage. Before you begin The guide assumes that you have basic knowledge of: Compute Engine Performing unattended Windows Server installations by using Windows Setup.

 

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