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To create a workgroup, type the name of the workgroup that you want to create, and then click OK. Your computer will be removed from the domain and your computer account on that domain will be disabled. This section provides access to procedures and information that will help you install the Connector software, connect your computer to the server, and troubleshoot connecting computers to the server. Connect computers to the server. Connect computers to a Windows Server Essentials server without joining the domain.

Install the Connector software. Move computer data and settings manually. Transfer multiple user profiles during computer deployment.

Uninstall the Connector software. Disconnect your computer from or reconnect your computer to the server. How backup works with sleep and hibernate modes. When you connect a computer to a server that is running Windows Server Essentials or Windows Server R2 with the Windows Server Essentials Experience role installed, ensure that your client computer has a valid connection to the Internet.

If this computer has multiple user accounts, log on by using the user account that has documents, pictures, and personal preferences that you want to keep after you connect the computer to the server. You can get your domain name information from your network administrator. For a computer running the Windows operating system, click Download software for Windows.

If the User Account Control message appears, click Yes or type the local user name and password, if prompted. On the Find my server page, auto-detect the server in the local networks and select the server that you want to connect to. If this is the first computer that you are connecting to the server, and if this is the computer that you will be using to administer the server, use the administrator account that you created during setup. For all other computers, first create a network user account on the server by using the Dashboard.

Create the user account with Administrator or Standard user privileges, based on the tasks that are performed by the person using the computer.

If your computer is running Windows 8, Windows 8. If your computer is running Windows 7, and if you have documents, pictures, or personal preferences such as desktop backgrounds, screen savers, or Internet Explorer favorites that you want to keep after you join the computer to the new network, on the Choose if you want to move your existing data and settings page of the wizard, select the Move my data and settings to my new network user account.

Choose if you want to automatically wake the computer to create a backup on the Choose if you want to wake this computer to create its backup page. After you join your computer to the network, use your new user name and password to log on to the computer. When you log on to a computer that is running Windows 8 for the first time by using your network account, after it connects to the server, instructions for migrating files and applications from the old user account appear.

Follow the instructions on the How do I migrate files and applications from my old user account? After the computer is successfully connected to the server, shortcuts to the Connector TrayApp and the server Dashboard appear on the Start menu, which can be used as follows if your computer is running Windows 8, Windows 8. From the Connector TrayApp, you can enable or disable the Keep me remotely connected feature. You can also double-click the TrayApp to start the Launchpad.

From the Launchpad, you can access the Shared folders shortcut, configure computer backups, address alerts, and open the Remote Web Access website. This topic describes how to add a Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8. This is an alternative to the usual method, which requires joining the computer to the Windows Server Essentials domain. With that method, if the computer is in another domain, it must be removed from that domain before it can be added to the Windows Server Essentials domain.

Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. 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. I install missing updates. I guess, given this information, the issue is more of a nuisance than an actual problem. I undid and re-implemented the suggestions with several reboots in between, but it seems whatever damage was done, was done permanently. Has anyone been able to get it working? Mine was a fresh build, not an in-place upgrade. Specifically, the authentication method used by the server to verify your username and password may not match the authentication method configured in your connection profile.

Please contact the Administrator of the RAS server and notify them of this error. All other Essentials Tests except the Role Install pass. Thankfully, WSE RemoteApp works beautifully, so I do still have remote access to my network resources, but it would be really nice to get Anywhere Access working.

However, after doing some research and testing, I believe that the VPN connection issues can be resolved by performing the following steps:. Connect to your Essentials server via a standard Remote Desktop Connection, etc. Sort the Logs folder by date modified which will place the most recently modified log files up at the top , open the log files in Notepad, and the newest entries will be located down at the bottom of the log file.

Announcing Windows Storage Server Thanks for your answer. Or do I need to do a fresh install? Thanks for your comprehensive answer. The installation first failed and reverted back to Windows Storage Server. Only when I selected not to install updates during installation, the installation succeeded.

Please any advice where i messed up? Start-WssConfigurationService : The term ‘Start-WssConfigurationService’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.

From what I can gather it appears that the problem stems from the Windows Server Essentials services not starting properly even though they have been properly configured to start Automatically during the configuration of Essentials.

There are a total of 8 Windows Server Essentials services, and all but the email services should be started. Works great for both file and bare metal restores. Thanks Nathan. If Windows Server Essentials is working just fine for you, then there should be no real reason for you to make the upgrade to Windows Server with WSEE installed. I imagine that, if it is possible, it will be a fairly involved process. Mike, Thank you for the comprehensive instructions. Have you run across this, or have any suggestion on where to troubleshoot this?

Have you checked your network router, firewall, etc. For a bit more info see:. If you do not want this server to be a domain controller, join this server to your domain by using the Windows native tools. RemoteApp programs, etc. However, you can also opt to join a server that has WSEE installed on it to an existing i. However, in your case from what I understand , your existing server is already configured as a primary domain controller, and you just want to add the WSEE server role to it.

In that case, when you configure WSEE on your server, it will discover that the server is already a domain controller, and it will allow you to complete the WSEE configuration on the existing domain controller instead of having to join it to a separate domain controller or create a brand new domain controller from scratch.

Thus, you should just proceed with the WSEE configuration once it i. For more info see:. NOTE : The connector software will automatically join the client computer to your domain by default. Are you saying that you already have the Windows Server Essentials Connector software installed on your client computers?

If so, then I assume that you had them connected up to an older version of Essentials e. For more info see here and here. G mentions in the last link that I linked you to in my prior reply, where he sets the SkipDomainJoin registry value on the already joined clients, and then installs the connector software in order to force the connector software to skip the domain join part of the installation process since the client is already joined to the domain.

Then go ahead and delete the SkipDomainJoin registry value after the installation completes. Mike, this is the final post! All computers are now showing up under devices! Client backups work, Anywhere Access works, Shares work, etc! For anyone that has Server Standard and you previously joined the clients to the domain manually.. These two links were invaluable: — Connect computers to a Windows Server Essentials server without joining the domain — Comment by MR.

Thank you for the follow up post to let everyone know what worked for you when installing WSEE on a server that has already been configured as a domain controller prior to installing WSEE on it , and when installing the Windows Server Essentials Connector software on client computers that have already been joined to the domain prior to installing the connector software on them.

Great job! Great work, BTW! The dism works and I end up with a folder Server-Mount which contains all the Server folders in it. No files, such as Policy. Later on i. I hope that makes sense. If you enjoy tinkering with servers, then by all means, please do have at it.

I may well ultimately purchase one of your products for my main production build. Also, will your product work if the Server is a DC? Q: How does Work Folders compare to other Microsoft sync technologies?

Why would someone use both? Hats off to you for publishing this on the Web. I do have a few observations, however, and just wondering if other people are seeing the same things I moved the various settings and files from one VM to the other using a shared virtual disk.

When I ran the second command, after about 20 seconds, I got a message saying that the Company Name was in use, so I changed the Company Name in the command to I see that others have had this issue so I left it off and checked the Windows Update settings later Everything looked good, with a working Dashboard and full functionality.

However, there are a few puzzles However, this did not happen. I am trying to join a Standard server to an existing WSE I had it all working but got spooked because it looked like the server was holding or taking FSMO roles away from the wse Part of the reason to do this is to eventually demote the wse server because we are at 36 users and even though I have 40 licenses for , I do not think they are valid for the WSE and it must go away.

I want to use DFS to sync the data folders to the new server, then move folder redirection, then demote and pull the First off, you cannot have multiple Essentials servers running within the same network when they are acting as a primary domain controller holding all of the FSMO roles which is the default configuration for an Essentials server. The only way that you can run multiple Essentials servers on the same network is if they are each running as member servers where they are domain-joined to a completely separate domain controller.

Enabling multiple instances of Windows Server Essentials Experience in your environment. Join a second server to the network. Step 2: Install Windows Server Essentials as a new replica domain controller. And, another user has very kindly posted the steps that he took for doing a successful domain migration here. Thanks for your comments, I am reworking my process.

I did successfully join the existing WSE domain and get the essentials role installed on standard, I did the join just before the Start-WssConfigurationService. Thanks for the links. I will probably go with Mariattes server-essentials tools. I believe I added the AD roles to the member server incorrectly before. Thanks for pointing that out for everyone.

Are you aware of a way to disable TLS 1. We are all being told to disable these but it appears that WSE is deeply dependent on them. I know that if I disable TLS 1. It seems like Microsoft is not going to update this role to newer requirements. 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.

Application: SharedServiceHost. Exception Info: System. FileNotFoundException at System. String at System. Init System. String, System. FileMode, System. FileAccess, Int32, Boolean, System. FileShare, Int32, System.

String, Boolean, Boolean, Boolean at System. FileAccess, System. FileOptions, System. 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.

Windows Server Essentials portal. October 5, Retrieved July 11, Microsoft Technet. Microsoft Corporation. Retrieved June 9, When you run the Winver tool you will see this reference. March 10, Retrieved August 30, Retrieved February 10, Windows Server Blog. November 13, Retrieved December 17, The Office Maven.

September 7, Microsoft Windows Server Blog. All of this led to our decision to offer yet another version of on-premises server for small businesses — Windows Server Essentials. This edition will be released along with the other editions of Windows Server later this year. There is a strong possibility that this could be the last edition of Windows Server Essentials. September 3, 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 and means you get all the same features.