No VPN or anything else, tablet is a direct LTE connection and it works great without all the other hassles. Server is in her home, her warehouse she wants to run QB Enterprise on a tablet. She runs a fairly successful internet sales operation.
I would not call taking a brand new OS, completely untested for the most part, and applying something like that a production solution.īTW I tried it and SQL Management Studio Express crashes on install :)Īs far as why do I want RDS in a small user environment. Why do you need RDS in a less than 15 user environment? Http:/ / / Forums/ en-US/ winserverTS/ thread/ bbf47aa2-8ae5-4f22-9827-afee5a11417aīut, a slightly different question. You are incorrect about Server 2012 Foundation DC's not being able to install RDS. The wheel is going to get very squeaky tomorrow when I call MS. Once the hardware was sold out so was the licensing. Of course there are no more Foundation 2008 R2 servers, nor are there downgrade rights since it is sold only with bundled hardware. Who is going to buy 2 Foundation servers just so they can run RDS? If your spending that much money buy a regular Windows server license and 1 server. So why offer a product with RDS that cannot use RDS? This is all well and good for Server 2012 Standard or Essentials since they come with Hyper-V and a 2 instance license.įoundation does not. Server 2012 is advertised IDENTICALLY to 2008 R2 except now you cannot install RDS on a DC at all. For a small office of 2-3 people Foundation was perfect with RDS for remote access to an app or two. Remote Desktop Services was never recommended to be installed on a Domain Controller, but it did work, and it was only a recommendation. 15 user limit, usually sold on single socket E3 or even i5 based hardware. Like Server 2008 R2 it is advertised with the exact same features.įoundation server is meant for a small business, very small.
Here’s how to do it.Microsoft has released Foundation Server 2012.
As an alternative, you can build your own Windows Home Server, using fairly inexpensive parts, and get full access to the operating system. This makes it slightly less interesting for the serious PC user. Still, you might be surprised to learn that a “turnkey” WHS device like the MediaSmart Server does not have a VGA/DVI port. It uses WHS Drive Extender technology so you can pop in additional drives at anytime, enable drive mirroring to protect data, and even comes with one add-in from HP that lets you post your photos online. The HP MediaSmart Server EX475, for example, costs about $800 for the higher-end, 1TB version. Iomega, Fujitsu, HP, and many others have released-or plan to release-network storage devices built around WHS. Interestingly, network storage companies have flocked to WHS.
Meanwhile, a NAS (network-attached storage) such as the Maxtor Shared Storage II lets you back-up computers in your home and stream videos to your Apple TV, but it’s definitely not a home server. WHS is built on Windows Server 2003, a highly stable and powerful platform indeed. Yet, these programs are meant for the home: a publishing agent that lets you stream videos to your TiVo, a photo uploading service, and even packages that let you encrypt data-say, for those who work in the financial sector from home.
You can add software to the server just like they do in the enterprise. These let you extend the capability of the platform. In fact, application developers are busy designing some pretty cool add-ons to Windows Home Server.
While not open in the sense of open source, this is a true server OS, so is more open than closed-box NAS systems. Microsoft Windows Home Server (WHS), released this fall as an OEM product-which you can buy at NewEggand other sites as long as you buy one other minor hardware item-addresses the need to “open up” our home networks.Īs the first Microsoft product ever released that is a true home server, WHS allows you to configure user accounts, make unattended back-ups of any PC in your home, and even set up remote access to your storage using an interface that is both powerful and relatively straightforward.