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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