This meant making sure that the system BIOS was set up to boot from the USB drive. The system lacks a DVD drive, so we used a Samsung external USB optical drive to handle the installation. The hardware used for this installation is built around a Zotac mini-ITX motherboard with an Intel Core i3 530 CPU and 4GB of DDR3 RAM.

You can have read access, full access, or no access. The only drawback is that there’s setting up shares in this way results in a little granularity. Windows 7 HomeGroups: You can add a WHS 2011 box to your HomeGroup, which makes sharing files and printers much easier. But those aren’t needed any longer (though some may have additional features beyond those in WHS 2011.) The original WHS didn’t have this capability built-in, so various media server plug-ins were among the most popular WHS plug-ins available. As more HDTVs, A/V receivers, and other similar home electronic devices ship with built-in DLNA client capability, combining a robust media server and a robust PC server in one box becomes increasingly useful. It’s now a DLNA 1.5-compliant server, meaning that DLNA-capable client devices can connect to a WHS system set up as a media server. Memory: 128GB 4x Samsung M393A4K40BB0-CPB 32GB DDR4-2133 Memory MEM-DR432L-SL01-ER21ġ- Does this seem like overkill, or am I headed in the right direction?Ģ- Any problem with the above combination of components?ģ- Is there an equivalent motherboard to the Supermicro X10SDV-TLN4F, except with 2 m.2 slots for RAID1 OS installation?Ĥ- Are you limited to 64GB if running Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials 64-bit?ĥ- Anybody know of a good online backup for Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials? I'd love to use CrashPlan, but they don't support Essentials, even though they say it should work.Better media server: Windows Home Server 2011 has robust media transcoding and streaming capabilities, and it supports a wide range of codecs–AAC, AVCHD, DivX, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, WMV, and more. Processor: Intel Xeon D-1540 (Embedded in Supermicro X10SDV-TLN4F) I'm a novice to intermediate SMB IT administrator at best, so I would really appreciate your guys input.

Would someone share their thoughts/opinions on upgrading my Windows Home Server v1 to Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials?ġ- I still love the client computer backups in Windows Homes Server, which is one of the reasons I'm sticking with Windows for a Home Server.Ģ- Centralized location of everything (data) in home and home office.ģ- Ability to store/stream music/videos/movies on the network and outside the home/office.

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