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James Larson

Clients not backing up after Windows 10 v2004 Update

Hello all, I finally decided to upgrade my client machines from Windows 10 Pro v1909 to v2004, which apparently I shouldn't have done just yet.  After the update, none of the clients are backing up to Windows Server 2016 Standard.  I'm using the Essentials Experience Role to automate the backups.  The Essentials Dashboard on the server reports the computers offline ever since I did the update, so that can't be backed up.  However, the client machines' Windows Server Essentials icon is running in the task trays, I can sign in to the Dashboard, and access the server ...

James Larson asked 11/20/2020 22:05
jorge tavares

Migration SBS2011 STD to WINDOWS SERVER 2019 STD w/o Exchange

Hi, I'm about to buy your migration kit to support me on this migration in a customer's site. My doubt is about which kit I should purchase considering that I will only migrate the DC because Exchange is not already running there. They also have user profiles redirected to a WS2008 file server in the Domain, which I want to break and revert them to the workstations. So, does the SBS2001 Essentials (€199) kit will be enough or, do I have to purchase any of the SBS2011 Standard kits? thanks in advance

jorge tavares asked 11/14/2020 18:17
David Moore

Cant send a recive emails, exchange 2016

I had to recover a mail server from backup as the Exchange server was sitting on a bad sector, the mail store was on a sepetate drive and was ok the biggest problem was the backup had been failing for the last 2 weeks due to bad sectors but the exchange server kept going. I managed to restore the Exchange server that was 2 weeks old and attach the latest store, and that works ok, outlook is seeing all the emails that are in the store, the problem is the incomming and outgoing emails are not working, I have recreated the ...

David Moore asked 11/11/2020 09:42
Andrew Stefaniuk

Adding a second DC after upgrading from SBS 2008/2011 to Win 2019

Hello Mariette I was looking for thoughts on adding a second domain controller after we upgrade from SBS 2008/2011 single DC environment I know now the concept of a "Backup DC"  has been replaced with a RODC or a full second DC and I have read that best practices are to split some of the FSMO roles between both DC in a full two DC environment. I found your Migrations Guides to be the best resource I have ever seen in many years in the IT business. When we made our move from SBS2008 to  WIN2019/Exchanges ...

Andrew Stefaniuk asked 11/10/2020 14:47
federico mapelli

Windows Server Essentials Service: Failed to synchronize user password with online identity repository.

In may dashboard it appears a critical error (translated from Italian):  Windows Server Essentials Service: Failed to synchronize user password with online identity repository. Occorrunces SGM-SERVER-10 30/10/2020 13:50 Dettagli Windows Server Essentials Service: impossible to set password for account name.surname@mydomain.com (only for one user) Solution Check if the server is connected to internet I think it's about office365 password sync. Any idea about solving it?

federico mapelli asked 10/30/2020 21:38
Christopher Hilton-Johnson

Server 2016 Essentials; Frequent RasServer Warning 50015 : "Specified Interface was not present in MGM"

Looked pretty much everywhere for an answer to this. MS say corruption to a DB will be resolved by RRAS Server Reboot. Not So. Tests indicate MGM (whatever that is) has no interfaces attached to it and may well not be installed. VPN & Anywhere Access both work OK No obvious (to me) issues. Some reports say just ignore it, but I would really like to eradicate it - there are enough floating/non real/ erroneous Event Viewer/BPA reports already. Anyone with ideas or solutions - please!

Christopher Hilton-Johnson asked 10/16/2020 15:38
Edgar Torres

Routing fax receipts to Office365 email account

Hello, I have a question regarding the configuration necessary for Windows Fax Service delivery receipts to an Office365 email address.  Here's my scenario: Home office Widows Server 2019 Standard version 1809 Windows Server Essentials Experience 2016 (shout out to TheOfficeMaven.com) No Azure AD integration Email hosted on Office 365 Windows Fax Service Manager version 10.0.0 Standard issue U.S. Robotics V.92 USB Modem I receive all incoming faxes successfully.  However, email routing of the fax delivery receipts to my Office 365 email address fails with the following event IDs: 32078, ...

Edgar Torres asked 10/29/2020 21:23
Dick Summers

WSE 2016 "Check Email" tile URL?

My client has Windows Server 2016 with Essentials Experience enabled (WSE), and an internal Exchange server.  The Exchange server is integrated on the WSE Dashboard.  To resolve a Message Transfer Agent and firewall issue, I created separate IPs, URLs, and certificate SANs for email traffic (mail.x.com) and owa (web2.x.com).  The firewall sends only smtp traffic to mail.x.com and only https traffic to web2.x.com. The Check Email tile on the Remote Web Access screen shows the mail server URL (mail.x.com), OWA does not load when the tile is clicked, it goes to the mail server URL, not the ...

Dick Summers asked 10/28/2020 23:31
Bill Swan

Additional Authoritative email domain

Hi  The boss wishes to have another Authoritative email domain in Exchange 2016 of Server 2016 Essentials. I have added Authoritative email domain, setup DNS, added new email account to bosses outlook on LAN pc works ok. OWA works fine with new email login. Adding exchange sync email account to mobile devices works ok. However when setting up outlook externally on boss home pc this does not work, is there some routing thingy I need to do on Server Essentials 2016 for Outlook 2016  to work ? Thanks

Bill Swan asked 10/28/2020 07:46
federico mapelli

Multiple WSE2016/WSE2019 Server with Branchcache in remote office

if I have  multiple WSE2016  server in multiple branch office (with BranchCache activated as Hosted Cache) is it possible migrate only one of those to w2019? Is there BranchCache in 2019?

federico mapelli asked 10/26/2020 22:42
federico mapelli

Best way to migrate from WSE 2016 environment to 2019

Hi Guys! first of all I thank you for the splendid job you did!  I've an Hyper-v robust server within 1 WSE 2016 DC, 2 W2016 members, 2 W2019 members, (I've another hyper-v server with a 2016 dc) and some virtual appliance. I'd like also to upgrade all machine to windows 2019 and: I know wse2019 is a bad choice (Remote Desktop and so on) so I've to migrate from WSE 2016 to W2019 standard + experience role install following this guide. Have I to migrate and then install experience role? There are several ...

federico mapelli asked 10/22/2020 13:28
Steve Kelly

New Server Hardware

Hi all, So we currently have a Dell R330 running Windows Server Essentials 2012 R2. We want to replace the hardware and run Server Essentials 2016 (2019 doesn't quite cut the cloth being as they removed half the features). I'm after some recommendations for the hardware... Ideally I'd like to get a new Dell server (to run the Server Essentials 2016 OS) in RAID 1 (hyper-v) and then potentially get a QNAP NAS to hold all data shares (connected via ISCSI).  The reason for this is if the server goes tits up the shares ...

Steve Kelly asked 09/07/2020 17:26
Art Saffran

Migrate to new server from 2012 R2 to

I have a law firm client that wants to upgrade their server hardware running Server 2012 R2 w/Essentials. Should I look at 2019 since it drops Essentials or Server 2016 w/Essentials? Do you have guides for this migration? They don't do remote but they do like the Essentials server dashboard.   Thanks. --Art

Art Saffran asked 10/14/2020 15:49
Gerry Wieczerza

Situation with Disk Drive Permissions

Good day! Background Hyper-V VM built with Server 2019 VM OS Drive = 200GB VHD VM Data Drive = 500GB VHD OS Installed and client applications added to the system filling the data drive. Tech went to add the first computer to the domain and discovered that the domain was improperly created.  Example: ad.microsoft.com was actually entered as ad.micrsoft.com. Oops! Since all the the clients data had already been moved to the data drive the technician just reinstalled the OS onto the original C: and attached the original D: after the installation. ...

Gerry Wieczerza asked 10/10/2020 13:24
Steve Reynolds

Exchange 2007 group with GUID was not found

I received this error when performing step 10 of uninstalling Exchange 2007 on SBS 2008.  I have attached a screen shot of the command and the error.

Steve Reynolds asked 09/30/2020 17:20
Martyn Hudson

Server 2016 Essentials Dashboard - Will Not Open

After applying a version upgrade to the Trend WFBS Server running on the 2016 Essentials box, the Essentials Dashboard refuses to open.  If you double click on it the splash screen appears and hangs for 30 seconds then closes and nothing.  I suspect local cert issues.  Plenty of info on 2012 R2 but does not apply to 2016. Any ideas on how to look into this further or resolve?

Martyn Hudson asked 09/24/2020 09:16
Dewayne Davis

Window Server Essentials 2016 user limit

We are a small contracting business with (5) users in the office, each with their own workstation. We have a 6th workstation set up by our plotter. We have two more workstations that are for training. We usually have 25-35 electricians in the field that will come in periodically to do safety training on these two workstations. I would like each employee to have their own login to the server. But I am not sure if this is possible with the 25 user limit. I am also using up two of the 25 users for two network printer / ...

Dewayne Davis asked 09/23/2020 20:55
Art Saffran

Outlook certificate error

I have a client who uses Microsoft 365 for email services. Two of the staff have received Outlook certificate expiration errors...see screenshots attached. It appears the certificate issued by Let's Encrypt expired 9/13/2020. I don't use that SSL issuer and am not sure where this certificate comes from. Microsoft 365 says it could be from an old on-premises Exchange server but this client moved from on-premises quite a few years ago (don't recall the exact date). This certificate shows validity dates from 6/5/2020 to 9/13/2020 and I don't know why it got installed in Outlook. Support was not ...

Art Saffran asked 09/21/2020 15:21
Larry Struckmeyer

What Format for the SSL Certificate for Exchange 2016

I ordered a SSL certificate from SSLs.com, a reseller for Comodo which is the same vendor that was used for the SBS before.  I used the EAC-certificates to generate the CSR. What I got back was a cert in the format of mail_domain_tld.zip.  Unzipping that results in two files, one named mail_domain_tld.crt the other mail_domain_com.ca-bundle.  Lacking any better instructions I imported the .crt file into the EAC-Certificates. and the EAC reports "valid". This makes me uneasy.  What is your opinion and what would you suggest I do or should have done? Thanks!!

Larry Struckmeyer asked 09/19/2020 15:15
Larry Struckmeyer

Exchange Migration From SBS to Exchange 2016 Step 5 Part 18

Hi,  In the tutorial the OWA Virtual directories are both https://mail.server-essentials.net/owa.  But after running the scripts ours is different.  The internal is https://server-name.domain.local/owa  and the external is https://mail.domainname.com/owa. Do I need to fix something?

Larry Struckmeyer asked 09/16/2020 16:57
Allen Stone

Windows Server Essential Connector

Hello All:   I am having a problem installing the windows server essential connector on a windows 8.1 pro system. I get the following error message when I try ti install it:   Windows Server Essential Connector has not been installed  Package installation did not succeed Try to install it again and contact your system administrator I looked at an article and was advised to install any updates that were pending on the server, which I did, however, I still get the error message after installing those pending updates. Any suggestions ...

Allen Stone asked 09/14/2020 16:37
James Shimota

Suggestions to find Event source of 6273 and 4625 on SBS 2011 (?)

Running SBS 2011. dont laugh. It's paid for.  If you must know I keep it for the exchange server. I rebuilt this server in 2014 to upgrade hardware - since that time (I think the very first day) I've been logging and error that a user account 'test' on my domain fails a password.  I get 2 messages, one in Net POlicy Server says 'auth - PAP - "Authentication failed due to a user credentials mismatch. Either the user name provided does not map to an existing user account or the password was incorrect."  the other is more ...

James Shimota asked 09/06/2020 22:27
Robert Bird

FRS to DFRS Migration Error - How to proceed?

I have an issue with the FRS to DFRS Migration. Setup is 4 sites with a DC on each and 2 sites with a RODC each (so 6 all together). I have checked the AD health etc and all OK so I ran the  dfsrmig /setglobalstate 1 command, went away and came back a hour or so later and checked the progress with  dfsrmig /getmigrationstate and all had progressed apart from 1 of the RODC servers. I left it over night and the same. dfsrmig /getmigrationstate The following Domain Controllers are not in sync with ...

Robert Bird asked 08/30/2020 08:27
Joe Mills

How Do I Remove the Old VPN Connection from Clients?

Due to the recent *RemoteWebAccess.com fiasco, I recently changed over to a new certificate (using the "Get a free Let's Encrypt SSL Certificate...) Dynamic DNS, etc..  I believe I followed the process and wizards correctly to import and apply the new certificate for my IIS and VPN.  I have removed the old *remotewebaccess.com certificates.  I uninstalled and reinstalled the Connector on all Clients.  I noticed that at time of reinstall of the Connector, the Server did NOT create a new VPN connection on each of the Clients.  Instead I created a new VPN connection on each Client.  Everything ...

Joe Mills asked 08/11/2020 13:59
Steve Reynolds

Should Hyper-V host be on domain before migration?

I am using the guide for migrating SBS 2008 to Server 2019.  Should the Hyper-V host for Server 2019 be on the domain before migration? Thanks, Steve

Steve Reynolds asked 08/24/2020 21:50
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