A great 20 minute video on the installation of the connector software and a demonstration of both backup and bare-metal restore in Windows Server 2012 Beta Essentials (WS2012E):
Video: WS2012E Backup and Bare-Metal Restore Demo is a post from: MS Windows Home Server - Your Personal Guide to Microsoft Windows Home Server!
We have a couple of posts for you highlighting the performance of Windows Server 2012 Beta Essentials.
First up Tinkertry who has tested the performance of backups and bare-metal restores in Windows Server 2012 Beta Essentials, and the results are that it is a lot faster than both WHS2011 and WHS v1.
WHSv1 was fast, but had issues with recovering from any issues with the PC Client Backups database whilst WHS 2011 was more robust, with better error recovery, but took very long for the first backup and subsequent backups, and file restores.
Windows Server 2012 Beta Essentials on the other hand was quicker than both WHS 2011 and WHS V1.
Secondly The Doc’s World tests the performance of Storage Spaces in Server 2012 Essentials. Along with lots of screen shots for good measure.
“I still do not like the overall performance of Storage Spaces even though this was the best I have tested, as it is still considerably slower than a cheap RAID card.”
Windows Server 2012 Beta Essentials Performance is a post from: MS Windows Home Server - Your Personal Guide to Microsoft Windows Home Server!
the average guy have another video on Windows Server 2012 Essentials, and this one looks at Domains and Storage Spaces.
“Jim was joined by John Zajdler, Chris Courney (Drashna), Greg Welsh, Mike Martis (BYOB) and Paul Braren for a deeper dive into Windows Server 2012 Essentials Beta that was released to the public on July 11, 2012. In the show we look at two of the more discussed features of the new OS in Domains and Storage Spaces. We cover both discussion points as well as live demos.”
Here’s the video, whilst additional info is available from here.
Video: Domains and Storage Spaces in Windows Server 2012 Essentials is a post from: MS Windows Home Server - Your Personal Guide to Microsoft Windows Home Server!
In Windows 2012 Essentials there are two options regarding certificates. You can either register or move your existing internet domain to a supported registrar and buy a certificate or use a certificate you already own.
For this second option a user by the name of PiGeon explains how to accomplish this with your own homemade certificate.
In this guide PiGeon explains how to prepare the Management console, prepare the certificate request and export it to a pfx file.
A comprehensive tutorial which you can find here.
Windows Server 2012 Essentials with your own Homemade Certificate is a post from: MS Windows Home Server - Your Personal Guide to Microsoft Windows Home Server!
Windows Home Server enthusiast Bennett Adelson has taken Windows Server 2012 Beta Essentials for a test drive.
In his comprehensive post Bennett takes us through the complete installation process with lots of screenshots too.
You can read his post here.
Windows Server 2012 Beta Essentials Install Walkthrough is a post from: MS Windows Home Server - Your Personal Guide to Microsoft Windows Home Server!
Microsoft has unveiled Surface: a pair of tablet PCs and a pair of covers-cum-keyboards, designed for, and designed around, its Windows 8 operating system.
Microsoft's intent with the Surface tablets is to create hardware that puts the software front and center, to provide the hardware necessary to allow Windows 8's strengths to really come to the foreground. At the launch event, however, the software took the back seat. This was all about the hardware and with good reason.
The Surface tablets are smart, good-looking, carefully considered, well-built, slick pieces of kit, and there's nothing even close on the market today. Of course, they're not on the market today either, but unless the PC OEMs inject a serious dose of quality in their build and design processes, the Surface units will stand alone when they eventually go on sale.
