This was a common request from customers (especially from Home Server customers) and we added this inĪnywhere Access is a term we use to cover the various ways that customers can access their server, whether they are using a remote PC, laptop, tablet or smartphone.
SBS 2011 Essentials did not support disk drives greater than 2TB for backup and restore. We also made some significant performance improvements to client backup. SBS 2011 Essentials had backup support for up to 25 machines.Įssentials 2012 doubles this support to 50 machines. Support for backing up 50 client machines. This provides an additional layer of protection above local Windows Server Backup mechanisms. Essentials 2012 integrates with the Microsoft Online Backup Service which makes it simple for customers to register their server and perform online backups. This is a great experience for Windows 8 clients as it provides the added safely of having their File History stored on the server. In Essentials 2012, we have made it simple for the administrator or partner to configure Windows 8 clients from with the Dashboard to turn on File History and point the File History folder to the Essentials 2012 server. File History is a new Windows 8 feature that allows you to store changes made to files on your client machine and then easily find and restore previous versions without requiring the assistance of an administrator. In Essentials 2012, we have integrated Storage Spaces through wizards and alerts to help make it simple and easy to use. The ability to simply add a disk drive and increase capacity has long been a request from customers and partners. Storage Spaces is new to Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 and offers a number of compelling scenarios for first-server environments including easy capacity expansion and resiliency for physical disk failures using commodity disk hardware. The major data protection features we have enhanced or added in Essentials 2012 include: On the Window Server blog, I described some of the Essentials 2012 features, and in this post I have reused the same general descriptions of those features.ĭata protection has always been a key feature in all of the products our team has produced (in fact we have a dedicated feature team for data protection). We started there and through the planning and development phase used a number of principles to guide our work. I’ve taken the major features for Essentials 2012 and broken them down into the following categories:įrom a broad feature perspective, Essentials 2012 builds on the existing feature set in Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials (SBS 2011 Essentials). (Essentials 2012) has been released, many customers and partners have asked for a “feature list” for Essentials 2012. First published on TechNet on Jul 17, 2012
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