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[nlitend1]

Here it is:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30327


A little more info:

http://www.tomontech.com/2012/07/microsoft-releases-windows-server-2012-essentials-public-beta/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TomOnTech+%28Tom+on+Tech%29

Edited by nlitend1, 11 July 2012 - 11:42 AM.

[jmwills]

Thanks for the link.....coming soon to a VM near me!

[JermLloyd]

Another place to get it: http://homeserversho...tials-download/

This is a link to this post FYI

[Joe_Miner]

This is a link to this post FYI

Bad day. The link I ment to put in turns out to be the same as what you had. Never mind........ I need to go back to bed!

[jcollison]

It's installed. Virtual Box. 15 min max

[jmwills]

First impressions?

[Joe_Miner]

It's installed. Virtual Box. 15 min max

Inquiring minds want to know!

[HSS-Dave]

Dang. Bad time for me to be travelling!

The YouTube of episode 189 is up and ready. http://youtube.com/homeservershow It has some screens and John giving a little preview of Essentials. I'll get the audio out tonight!

[jcollison]

Working on a post for the front page right now. Will have some screen shots in the post.

[HSS-Dave]

Jim's first look post is up.

http://homeserversho...first-look.html

[tinkererguy]

Initial tests looking pretty darn good, check out the YouTube video and screenshots of bare-metal restores and backups:
http://tinkertry.com...s2011-and-whsv1
eager to hear how others are finding similarly speedy results in your lab tests, compared to WHS2011.

[Joe_Miner]

Initial tests looking pretty darn good, check out the YouTube video and screenshots of bare-metal restores and backups:
http://tinkertry.com...s2011-and-whsv1
eager to hear how others are finding similarly speedy results in your lab tests, compared to WHS2011.

Thanks! Enjoyed your video and write-up.

Fantastic Speeds!!!!

[krom]

Working on a post for the front page right now. Will have some screen shots in the post.

Jim's first look post is up.

http://homeserversho...first-look.html

Initial tests looking pretty darn good, check out the YouTube video and screenshots of bare-metal restores and backups:
http://tinkertry.com...s2011-and-whsv1
eager to hear how others are finding similarly speedy results in your lab tests, compared to WHS2011.

Very nice job, both of you.

I wish it were out now as my v1 died a few weeks ago and I was just waiting for some time set up my new server and move to WHS 2011. But with this I might want to wait and go with Essentials 2012 now instead. Unfortunately that leaves me in limbo for the time being.

[jmwills]

Yes for about 60 days or so. You could go ahead and stand up a 2011 box and then migrate the data.

[jcollison]

We posted a video first look. http://theaverageguy...eta-first-look/

[pcdoc]

Been playing with it most of the day. So far it seems pretty good. I like the new dashboard but hate the metro implementation (does not make much sense in this application). Functionally I found a few issues. First the remote access is buggy under untangle, it really beckons for a UpNp router. Took me almost an hour to get it to work and even though it works fine, the it shows the configuration is not correct on the status page. They left the normal server manager under the hood and that is filled with error messages (much like server 2012) that are too cryptic to understand. Definitely has potential but is work in progress at this point. Going to load it in to some test hardware this weekend and test out my favorite subject (storage spaces) as well as test some of the back up features. Anxious to test the 2T issue which is supposed to be resolved.

[jmwills]

One of the interesting aspects of this product, since we are now dealing in a Domain environment would be to use DFS replication which is layman's terms is a fancy "AllwaySync" between two domain servers. Both could be physical or virtual doesn't matter but they have to be within the same domain.

A little high end perhaps for most users but this is the way Microsoft is pushing us.

[pcdoc]

They need to work on their install program. Just tried putting it on a dedicated system, ran through the full install only to fail after reboot as it needs a 90 Gig drive and I had a 60 gig SSD. Would have been nice if they checked the hardware requirements first. Just a thought. Then again, I should have read the hardware requirements first but that would have taken the challenge out it.

[jmwills]

90 huh...I figured it was 160 like the other. I guess we know how to modify that little issue right?

[gcoupe]

I downloaded the beta and installed it in a virtual machine to take a quick look at it. Despite Microsoft saying that WSE 2012 is suitable for "home use", I think they are being disingenuous. It might be fine for the likes of us, but I can't see this being used by the average home user.