My company is running SBS2008/SBS2011/Essentials, but it has grown to the point where this no longer meets our needs (We have too many employees!) and/or the software is going out of extended support. What is the migration path off of SBS/Essentials?
Somehow my client backup database got corrupted.
When I start a repair action, it runs for hours and it fails to repair with the following message:
An unknown error prevented the backup repair process from starting. Make sure that all services are running and then try again.
The progress bar grows and I can see disk activity from the WSSBackupRepair.exe process on Resource Monitor.
How can I find out why it can't repair the backup database?
What is the WSS Certificate Web Service?
I found that on Windows Server 2012 Essentials it was installed automagically. I've stopped the site for now, but would like to know why its there.
So today was RTM of Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials released. I immediately tried to do an in-place upgrade of an existing RTM 2012 Essentials to RTM 2012 R2 Essentials, but get:
Windows Server 2012 Essentials cannot be upgraded to Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials. You can choose to install a new copy of Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials instead, but this is different from an upgrade, and does not keep your files, settings, and programs. You’ll need to reinstall any programs using the original installation discs or files. To save your files before installing Windows, back them up to an external location such as a CD, DVD, or external hard drive. To install a new copy of Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials, click the Back button in the upper left-hand corner, and select “Custom (advanced)”.
This seems a bit odd, is this really the case? I can't find anything in the official documentation stating that this upgrade isn't possible.
I haven't had the time to install it and find out for myself and Microsoft is extremely vague about it.