reinstall whs 2011 and now product number is invalid
I replaced the mb is there a fix for this
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2011 and now product number is invalid
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Keep homeserver.com domain w/o WHS?
Sadly I've had to move off WHS 2011 but will badly miss the free dynamic DNS hosting and my Remote Access homeserver.com domain. Is there a way I can keep my WHS domain without running WHS?
I've been pondering this and I figure there must be a scheduled task or something that periodically checks in your server with Microsoft to update your public IP and keep things going. But I don't know if that's the case and what that task looks like. I could always run WHS in a VM and just spin it up periodically so it can check in but I'd rather avoid that if possible due to the overhead of maintaining that VM.
Suggestions?
EDIT: I can see the main gist of my question was unclear. I'm looking not just to keep my domain but also to update the IP Address associated with it without running WHS. In that situation how do I go about providing Microsoft my public IP address whenever my ISP changes it?↧
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Is this a safe / good way of renaming my WHS 2011 server?
Hi there,
I would like to rename my WHS 2011 machine, but its not as easy as I thought! A couple of threads I've read (here and here, among others) indicate that the "correct" way to do it is to reinstall server. Some threads mention stopping the Certification Authority Service and doing some registry editing (e.g. here), but I'm not too comfortable doing that.
However this thread and this one indicate that it can be done using powershell and sysinfo rename.
Please can someone (ideally from MS) advise whether this is a good / safe / sound /reliable method of changing the server name?
I've not got any clients set up on the server, so thats not a concern - I do have a large backup history I'd like not to lose access to though! I do not need to change the workgroup either, just the server name. Many thanks.
Cocksy
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Missing installation DVD
I've lost the installation DVD for WHS 2011. Where is it available for download?
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Subdomains and dns
Okay, so I have one external IP and I'm using SBS 2011. Its my understanding that dns should be able to handle sub domains sort of. So i have remote.xxxx.co.uk that points to my sbs server and OWA and so on. I would like to have plex.xxx.co.uk to point
to my plex server on a different internal ip. Now I can forward ports on the router and use say plex.xxx.co.uk:32400/gui or whatever it is but its just not good enough there must be a better way to have my cake and eat it
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WHS 2011 Server Backup unable to find USB flash storage to use as backup drive
I am trying to set up the Server Backup to backup my server's OS drive. I have purchased a 128GB Sandisk USB flash drive hoping to accomplish this and formatted it as NTFS. It's empty and usable in the OS, but it is not showing in the Hard Drives tab in the dashboard, or in the drives tab when using the Server Administrator to set up the backup directly.
Does the dedicated backup USB drive really have to be a mechanical one? I figured there would be no difference between a USB mechanical drive and a USB flash storage.
Any help would be greatly appreciated thanks!
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HTTPS and HTTP
Hi, I have sbs 2011. I use to be able to put remote.domain.com in and it would take to to remote web access now i have to put in https://remote.domain.com it use to put that automatically why would it all of a sudden stop working.
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After Upgrade from Vista to Windows 8, then 10, Drives show "Offline"
Hello:
I just upgraded a Vista machine to Windows 8, then 10. The vista machine was already doing backups to WHS 2011. After the upgrade, I re-installed the connector on the Windows 10, and when I tried to back it up, it said that drives were "Offline".
So, I reconfigured the backup, the it showed something like this:
C:\
C:\ (Offline)
D:\
D:\ (Offline)
So, I unchecked the "offline" drives, and checked the new ones. Then it worked. Does anyone know why it duplicated the C and D drives, and one each of them was Offline? Does it change the serial number or something like that?
Thanks,
Rich Locus, Logicwurks, LLC
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How do I get Rollup 4 for Windows Home Server 2011
Now that mainstream support for windows home server has ended, how do I get the old updates?
I need the KB2757011. My desktop is not connecting to the server.
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WHS 2011 BootMGR Missing
Ok, I screwed up and I need help.
In an effort to make a partition correction to my WHS 2011 Server I ended up with the BootMGR is missing error and it won't start. Yes, I can restore it to yesterday and it starts up just fine, but the core problem remains. The problem is the"active" partition is NOT the sys drive and when I need to replace the "active" drive down the road I'm screwed. So I'd like to make my Drive 0, the sys drive, "active". Doing so ends up with BootMGR is missing.
Mobo is the ASUS 990FX, AMD 965, 16GB DDR3 (8 active as limited by the OS). Drive 0 is C & D, a partitioned 256GB Samsung SSD, ACHI SATA III. Trim Enabled. Smokin fast. Drive 1 is a WD 1TB 1001FAES, D2 is a 1TB WD1001FALS, D3 is a 2TB WD2002FAEX and the external backup is connected to the JBOD Bus 0 eSata and it is a WD20EARX.
Drive 3, the 2TB drive unknowingly had the partition set "active" from being used in the previous WHS v1 setup. I discovered this problem when I pooled the drives in Drive Bender and decided to replace that drive, leaving the system without an"active" partitioned drive. So I used the administrator tool and made my C: drive (the SSD) active, and went through the dos process of making Drive 3 "inactive" but leaving it partitioned and formatted and it remains part of the Drive Bender Pool.
So how do I correct the BootMGR missing error without going through the process of reformatting my SSD? Is it possible? I've ejected all of the other drives from the server and have the SSD there alone as Drive C&D. Can I make a BootMGR correction on C: and retain all of the Drive Bender and Bitdefender programs I have installed without completely reformatting the system drives?
HELP!! Thanks!
Don Francis
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Launchpad on windows 10
Hi,
I use the whs 2011 launchpad on windows 10. Recently, launchpad has failed to properly load and says the server appears to be offline. Once it finally loads after I accept to access server offline, I can access the server via server folders and dashboard but not remote access. Searching on-line for a possible answer some reckons I should use sfc /scannow or DISM /Online/Cleanup-Image/RestoreHealth. However, they both fail. Any ideas as to what parameters I should use or does anyone have any ideas on how to rectify this problem? Is this a known problem with the latest update of windows 10?
Regards,
David
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temp folder filling
I have been using WHS2011 for several years. Everything was working very well. Recently, my operating system partition (c:\) was reported to been low on space. I extended the partition size and it filled up rapidly again.
Disk cleanup does not appear to be removing files in c:\windows\temp. I removed them manually. The c:\windows\temp folder seems to be filling up with files named cab_nnnn_nn. Is this normal? How can I prevent this from happening?
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when to retire WHS2011/migrate to DSM?
I'm on my second WHS machine and have been running WHS since the get-go. The current machine, built for WHS 2011, was built in July of 2011 and has been running 24x7 all but about three weeks of that time. (Intel BOXDQ67EPB3/Core i3-2100T based.) For the first three+ years of its life it lived in a nice cool dry climate. It now lives in a fairly warm and very humid one. The case is beginning to rust, but otherwise the hardware has been rock solid. The biggest headache I ever had with it was getting it up and running with UEFI/AHCI and Ethernet on an intel non-server board in the first place.
The most volatile of the shared folders data is in an intel BIOS RAID1 array. The server backs itself up twice a day to an external USB drive using Server Backup. I also backup the shares data to a separate external USB drive frequently using an xcopy script. The external drives swap to offsite once every six months. Between the offsite intervals I have a script on a client PC that copies newly modified shared files to AES 7Zip archives on OneDrive. I'm reasonably confident the server could burn down tomorrow and I wouldn't lose more than a couple of days of data. (Assuming I could read the Server Backup on some other machine--do not know if Windows 10 can read one of these. Anybody know?)
Sooner or later, it will need to be retired. But I'm not really sure when that is or what the driving factor will be. I think I will replace it with a Synology box--today it would be a DS216+.
So, my question/topic for discussion is this: when to retire the WHS 2011 server? The OS is now out of mainstream support, but my understanding is that it will continue to get the Server 2008R2 security updates for some period. (What period?!?) The .homeserver.com domain name still woks. (But until when?) The client stuff still works, though it has been glitchy recently about starting all the services, with the current Win10 clients. The server's hard disks (a Seagate Momentus XT ST95005620AS 500GB 7200 RPM hybrid 2.5 for the OS, and 2x HITACHI Deskstar 0S03230 3TB 5400 RPM 3.5s for all the shared folders data) will die at some point, but when? My preference is, obviously, to have it live at least a week or two past its replacement's entry into service so the migration is least painful. Other than the "Joy" of making the new platform work and integrating it with all the other stuff, I'm in no hurry, so if I could time bringing the replacement online to exactly that same week or two, that would be fine. If I knew when that was going to be. I'd rather go earlier than after the WHS 2011 box is in a failed state.
What are everybody else's thoughts on retiring their WHS2011 machines?
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whs restore wizard cannot find server - network not available
This is now my second HP desktop that WHS 2011 cannot find the server due to not loading the network driver. I have tried everything I know, like copying the "drivers for full system restore" folder to my flash drive and then installing drivers
from the wizard. That didn't work. I tried downloading the Realtek drivers to a flash drive, that didn't work. I deleted the 64 bit folder and left the 32 bit hoping a 32 bit driver would work, but, alas, it did not. I have been using the alternate method
of using ClientRestore from the WHS Dashboard on another PC to restore the drive from a USB HD. I found myself again in need of restoring yet the second HP PC, and still have this network problem. My first HP was an HP Pavillion Elite PC m9040n,
and this one is an HP Envy 700qe. I am frustrated with these HP machines not finding the server from the restore wizard. I get the message to make sure I am connected to the network and my server is o0n, both of which are on. I know it is a problem with
the NIC, in this case a Realtek RTL 8168/8111 PCIe Gigabit Ethernet NIC. What will make this machine find the server??? Anyone have an idea that I have not already tried? My laptop cannot make the Client Restore work with a USB HD, so I need this
to work properly from the internal HD.
Jim Marcum
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Cannot boot to Client Restore USB
Hey guys. I have a machine that was previously running Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center. The machine was configured with UEFI booting. The WHS2011 server had the GPT-UEFI hotfix installed and always backed up without issue. My HDD failed in the Win8.1 machine. I've replaced it with a SSD and want to restore from my backup. I've created a Client Restore USB from the WHS dashboard. The machine has no CD drive.
When I try to boot to the USB on the machine in UEFI mode, I immediately get an error... File: \EFI\Microsoft\Boot\BCD Status: 0xc000000d.
When I try to boot to the USB in Legacy BIOS mode, the WinPE shell starts but immediately throws a 0xc0000025 error before even getting to the driver screen.
I can get it to start the restore wizard sometimes by booting to the USB in Legacy BIOS mode while shutting off all other boot devices, but it won't let me restore. The wizard says I need to boot to the restore wizard in UEFI mode to do the restore.
I've been trying to restore this for DAYS and have searched endlessly on the internet and this site and can't seem to find anything that works. PLEASE help, I really need to get my computer running again as it was.
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Alert Viewer Error
Under Windows 10, when the connector detects that windows requires an update, in the Alert window, clicking on Open windows update produces this error message: "Alert viewer Error - Cannot run the trouble shooter"! Can any body help, as I have tried all the usual i.e. uninstalling, re - installing, no change!
Phil.
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We couldn't complete the features undoing changes
Hi folks,
I have windows server 2012 R2 hosted on hyper-v 2012 r2 after installing updates its fail to install then I got msg we couldn't complete the features undoing changes, I tried to uncheck option enable secure boot but it same issues I can't even login
to server it stuck on this msg any help plz
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W10 1511, 10586 Breaks WHS2011 Launchpad
I have updated two W10 machines to this latest update and in both cases, the Launchpad still connects to my WHS2011 Server but does not show any of the buttons (Backup, Remote Access etc) - has anyone else seen this?![]()
Phil P.S. If you find my comment helpful or if it answers your question, please mark it as such.
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Anyone Else Seeing This Issue With Groove Music and WHS 2011?
Microsoft has released a new version of the Groove Music app (version 3.6.1210.0) for Windows 10, and this keeps losing my entire album collection, and trying to rebuild it in a never-ending cycle.
I have 1,000+ albums stored on a Windows Home Server 2011 system, and four Windows 10 PCs (desktop, laptop, a Windows Tablet and a Surface 3) all running Groove connected to it, with the root music folder on the WHS2011 system defined as a library (and hence defined as a watched folder within Groove).
Now that all the instances of Groove have been updated to version 3.6.12.10.0, what will happen is that when I'm viewing my Albums, the albums will suddenly disappear, Groove will say there are zero albums available offline, and display the "Get some music" message. After some time (30 minutes?), or a restart of the app, Groove will start reindexing the music folders and albums will start appearing. This goes on (slowly!) until all the albums have been scanned from the WHS2011 folders, at which point they will all suddenly disappear again and the process starts over.
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VSS writers are not stable whenever CA Arcserve backup tool initiate the backup (VM hosted in Hyper-V)
Hi Team,
We have been facing VSS writers issue , whenever the third party (Arcserve) tool initiate the backup (It is VM hosted in Hyper-V)
We have been asked to reboot the server to make VSS writers stable. Please help us to fix the issue.
Scenario:
Step 1: All the VSS writers are stable before backup starts.
Step 2: Once Arcserve initiate the backup (image level), all the VSS writers went to timed out status. Then the backup failed again.
Step 3: Once we reboot the server, the Writers status are stable.
Step 4: Please note that we are able to take Native windows backup without any issue.
Kindly check this issue and let me know if there any fix available.
Thanks for your understanding !.
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