Windows server 2012 essentials office 365 sync free. WIndows Server 2012 Essentials R2 password sync to Office 365 not working.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

If this issue still exists please refer to the help link for more troubleshooting steps. This time, the Configuration Wizard ran to successful completion.

Thanks again for sharing your experience with everyone, and you are most welcome for the WSEE Installer. After i downloaded now the german version from your wsee. To marry a client with the wsee is no Problem, but after i set up wich drives to backup i tryed to run the first backup. But no suckses, every time the Clientbackup service is crashing.

But always at a different Time in the Backup. I have no Idea what i could do that the one service is not crashing anymore. On the same machine at a second harddisk is my primary w with manual installed wsee in english and work without any problem. Please try looking in the following location on BOTH the client computer AND on the server itself to see if there are any log files that give you an idea as to why your client backups are failing:.

Just sort the log files within the folder by their modification date, and then look at the newly modified log files to see if you can find any information within them related to the client computer backup service crashing i. Some news, client backup now is working. The Problem was some corruptet file in the clientbackup folder on the server and every time it was trying to acces that file the service on the server was crashing.

Delted the folder and recreate it in the wsee dashboard than it was working. But i now have a other Problem, after the backup was working i want to chance my second client to the new server. Every thing is fine expect, the second client shows allways offline.

Have now add in lights out for the server the lights out bulp in tray on client shows server online. Tryed to uninstall kaspersky on client but that changed nothing. But befor uninstall every essentials app have all pewrmissions. And that client was working with the english server essentials without problems too with kaspersky installed.

Could you please give me again some hind where to search. The last hind with logs was good that was showing me the read error. But now i have no logs because after the marriage from client with server the client is allways offline so i cant set up even the backup.

Glad to hear that client backup is working for you now. Thus, about the best I can tell you here is to check out the log files on both the client and server; and in the same location that I mentioned to you in my prior comment to see if you can find any indication as to why the connection is failing. Other than that, have you tried completely uninstalling the connector software from your client computer, and then reinstalling it again?

Is the client computer properly joined to your Essentials domain? However, in order to successfully use the script on Windows Server with WSEE , you will need to edit it by opening the script in a text reader such as Notepad, etc. Hi Mike, Thanks very much for this. When I load server manager it tells me that configuration is required for the Active Directory Certificate Services. I have tried a few times and get stuck at that place all the time.

Did you happen to run into any issues with any of the earlier steps? Finally figured it out, spaces were needed where none were and some were where none were needed lol. I have yet to test remote connection using the connector but other then that it now works fine. I have to admit that what you did requires a lot of work Believe me, I know having been a network analyst for more than 30 years so congrats are in order, this is awesome!!!!!!! I had to delete the virtual storage pool on my server since windows said it belonged to a different domain.

It seemed to be working great — thanks! PS — I turned it off and then on again, but no difference. Okay, realized that my storage space was just My inability to create a client PC may be related to the tiny pool it initially created, which was only 10GB. So I deleted the pool in Server Manager, got the 4 drives I have in the Primordial pool of available disks and went to the Essentials Dashboard.

When I try to create the storage space in the Dashboard, it says to select drives to create the storage space, but none are shown.

Maybe others with experience in this area will jump in and provide you with some further assistance. After the successful reinstall of the connector software, make sure that its tray icon is green and shows that the client is properly connected up to the Essentials server and not grey or red, which indicates a connection problem. Lastly, please be aware that if your client computer is running Windows 10 , then there are LOTS of reports of issues with getting the client computer successfully connected up to the Essentials server appearing over on the Essentials boards.

Storage Space comment: Yep, read that comment. Yeah, I checked and the selected drives are online, and I can put files over to the two test drives with no problems.

However it does NOT wipe out the other drives, which contain my old storage space. Good suggestion about looking in the essentials board — thanks for the link and the suggestion to stay out of trouble!

There were no errors, and the storage space was recognized just fine by the server Dashboard. Once everything is working properly i. Windows 10 version is a complete and utter mess IMHO. Apparently when Windows 10 gets updated to version , it wreaks havoc on the installed Windows Server Essentials Connector software i. Optional After the above program has been successfully uninstalled from the client computer, manually delete the following folders from the client computer if they happen to still exist:.

Optional Delete the following registry key branches using Regedit. Connect computers to a Windows Server Essentials server without joining the domain. Get Connected in Windows Server Essentials. I actually run into this issue quite a bit with W10 bi-yearly updates screwing up the WSE connector on W10 computers joined to a domain.

It creates a registry entry that makes it so that when you reinstall WSE connector on domain joined computer, it will skip the domain join step and just install the connector software. I found this information here Connect computers to a Windows Server Essentials server without joining the domain. Yes as mentioned above , the SkipDomainJoin connection method is well documented by Microsoft over on their website:. Hi, Thanks for this. We upgraded from server Essentials to server standard before realising essentials was no longer included.

I was planning on upgrading to a newer Windows server OS soon. I would like to still use the Essentials server roll option that Microsoft removed after server Yes, the client backup feature in all versions of Windows Server Essentials i.

They just want client backup feature available for use. Yes the client backup feature does indeed work under the Essentials SKU.

Thus, you might as well give them a platform that is fully supported by Microsoft. I hate that Microsoft abandon Server Essentinal with this great feature. I tried a test installation in a VM. Everything is working except third party plug-ins. There is no error during installation.

Do I have to copy some other Files or modify anything else? Very strange. Glad to hear that you got the add-ins working in a different VM though. Not a single file is modified nor altered in any way. Third party add-ins are indeed fully supported i. Your best bet there would be to contact the manufacturer of the add-in directly and ask them about it. I got it running following your instructions above, but am continuing to see a problem which also existed in Essentials where the storage service gets confused and declares a folder offline even though the underlying disk still exists.

The generally accepted workaround according to Missing server folder alert, but folder is still present! Is it possible that registration of the event sources got missed in your instructions above? Thanks for figuring it out! As is mentioned at the top of the manual install steps shown above, the steps only represent the bare minimum that is required in order to get Windows Server Essentials Experience installed, and working, on Windows Server If someone is looking for a straight forward easy, complete, and proper install, then we suggest using the WSEE Installer package instead.

I have a couple of quick questions. My original WSEE server was demoted and removed from the domain, blanked, reinstalled fresh as , re-joined to the domain, and started at your steps from there. Does the WSEE config process in fact promote the member server to a domain controller?

If not, can the member server be promoted to a domain controller AFTER the config process has completed successfully? If you want to keep the domain name and server name from your old Essentials server, just be sure that the old server is offline, and then use the exact same domain name and server name when configuring your new Windows Server with WSEE installation i. Unless you have lots of users, and have heavily modified your Active Directory, Group Policy, etc.

Whereas, on a normal installation of WSEE, the server will automatically get configured as a primary domain controller for you as part of the Essentials configuration process. I myself have never tried installing WSEE on a server that was already configured as a domain controller. The key for me was understanding whether or not WSEE configuration was attempting to promote the member server to a domain controller during the process.

It was the first server in the environment, created the new domain etc. Thank you Mike!! Promoted that server to a secondary domain controller for the DOM domain 3. I checked the box and clicked OK, but then the installer disappeared and nothing seemingly happened.

I looked around for any running processes none and checked the new Server Essentials deployment Event Log that the MSI created in my Event Viewer but nothing no events. On first logon after reboot, the Windows Server Essentials configuration wizard launched. I cancelled the wizard without completing it. Restored data from backup to ServerFolders. Kudos on making the migration work, and a big thanks for sharing how you accomplished it with others here. It might have something to do with the state of the migrated server.

That being said… If it happens to anyone else, then they can simply restart the server as you did , or they can just manually run the wizard by executing the following program anytime after the main installation has successfully completed, or after any subsequent restart of the server that takes place during the Essentials configuration process :.

Have you seen this behavior? I was making an assumption that functionality would have been deprecated in Windows and not likely to come over with the WSEE installation. Here are the rules:. The Server Infrastructure Licensing service silsvc. And yes, I do recall reading that the grace period is more accurately represented as 28 days vs Typical Microsoft. BTW, quick question for you… May I ask why you opted to cancel the configuration wizard and then manually run the Start-WssConfigurationService PowerShell command without any arguments instead?

Was that not the case? I know… WTF? Also, I read somewhere on this page that you advised somebody else not to run the Configuration Wizard, but instead to run the PowerShell command, because you assumed the Wizard would fail during role check, since the actual role did not exist and was not installed. PowerShell Good! I had a bad feeling that the Wizard would either fail and hose my WSEE installation, or possibly even worse it might succeed and hose my working domain.

I actually think the wizard would have worked just fine for you. I suppose that in those other comments you reference that I made, I was indeed probably just assuming that it would fail. No harm, no foul, on your config though seeing as the wizard simply executes the PowerShell command in exactly the same way as you did manually. Good to know that it will work without it and that it will just use the credentials of the signed in admin when omitted. Doing this will cause client computers to go into a strange state when reconnected to the server.

Excellent tip! Thanks again for sharing your findings with everyone. I install missing updates. I guess, given this information, the issue is more of a nuisance than an actual problem. I undid and re-implemented the suggestions with several reboots in between, but it seems whatever damage was done, was done permanently.

Has anyone been able to get it working? Mine was a fresh build, not an in-place upgrade. Specifically, the authentication method used by the server to verify your username and password may not match the authentication method configured in your connection profile.

Please contact the Administrator of the RAS server and notify them of this error. All other Essentials Tests except the Role Install pass. Thankfully, WSE RemoteApp works beautifully, so I do still have remote access to my network resources, but it would be really nice to get Anywhere Access working.

However, after doing some research and testing, I believe that the VPN connection issues can be resolved by performing the following steps:. Connect to your Essentials server via a standard Remote Desktop Connection, etc.

Sort the Logs folder by date modified which will place the most recently modified log files up at the top , open the log files in Notepad, and the newest entries will be located down at the bottom of the log file. Announcing Windows Storage Server Thanks for your answer. Or do I need to do a fresh install? Thanks for your comprehensive answer. The installation first failed and reverted back to Windows Storage Server. Only when I selected not to install updates during installation, the installation succeeded.

Please any advice where i messed up? Start-WssConfigurationService : The term ‘Start-WssConfigurationService’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.

From what I can gather it appears that the problem stems from the Windows Server Essentials services not starting properly even though they have been properly configured to start Automatically during the configuration of Essentials. There are a total of 8 Windows Server Essentials services, and all but the email services should be started. Works great for both file and bare metal restores.

Thanks Nathan. If Windows Server Essentials is working just fine for you, then there should be no real reason for you to make the upgrade to Windows Server with WSEE installed. I imagine that, if it is possible, it will be a fairly involved process. Mike, Thank you for the comprehensive instructions. Have you run across this, or have any suggestion on where to troubleshoot this?

Have you checked your network router, firewall, etc. For a bit more info see:. If you do not want this server to be a domain controller, join this server to your domain by using the Windows native tools. RemoteApp programs, etc. However, you can also opt to join a server that has WSEE installed on it to an existing i. However, in your case from what I understand , your existing server is already configured as a primary domain controller, and you just want to add the WSEE server role to it.

In that case, when you configure WSEE on your server, it will discover that the server is already a domain controller, and it will allow you to complete the WSEE configuration on the existing domain controller instead of having to join it to a separate domain controller or create a brand new domain controller from scratch.

Thus, you should just proceed with the WSEE configuration once it i. For more info see:. NOTE : The connector software will automatically join the client computer to your domain by default. Are you saying that you already have the Windows Server Essentials Connector software installed on your client computers?

If so, then I assume that you had them connected up to an older version of Essentials e. For more info see here and here. G mentions in the last link that I linked you to in my prior reply, where he sets the SkipDomainJoin registry value on the already joined clients, and then installs the connector software in order to force the connector software to skip the domain join part of the installation process since the client is already joined to the domain.

Then go ahead and delete the SkipDomainJoin registry value after the installation completes. Mike, this is the final post! All computers are now showing up under devices! Client backups work, Anywhere Access works, Shares work, etc!

For anyone that has Server Standard and you previously joined the clients to the domain manually.. These two links were invaluable: — Connect computers to a Windows Server Essentials server without joining the domain — Comment by MR.

Thank you for the follow up post to let everyone know what worked for you when installing WSEE on a server that has already been configured as a domain controller prior to installing WSEE on it , and when installing the Windows Server Essentials Connector software on client computers that have already been joined to the domain prior to installing the connector software on them. Great job! Great work, BTW! The dism works and I end up with a folder Server-Mount which contains all the Server folders in it.

No files, such as Policy. Later on i. I hope that makes sense. If you enjoy tinkering with servers, then by all means, please do have at it. I may well ultimately purchase one of your products for my main production build. Also, will your product work if the Server is a DC? Q: How does Work Folders compare to other Microsoft sync technologies? Why would someone use both? Hats off to you for publishing this on the Web. I do have a few observations, however, and just wondering if other people are seeing the same things I moved the various settings and files from one VM to the other using a shared virtual disk.

When I ran the second command, after about 20 seconds, I got a message saying that the Company Name was in use, so I changed the Company Name in the command to I see that others have had this issue so I left it off and checked the Windows Update settings later Everything looked good, with a working Dashboard and full functionality. However, there are a few puzzles However, this did not happen. I am trying to join a Standard server to an existing WSE I had it all working but got spooked because it looked like the server was holding or taking FSMO roles away from the wse Part of the reason to do this is to eventually demote the wse server because we are at 36 users and even though I have 40 licenses for , I do not think they are valid for the WSE and it must go away.

I want to use DFS to sync the data folders to the new server, then move folder redirection, then demote and pull the First off, you cannot have multiple Essentials servers running within the same network when they are acting as a primary domain controller holding all of the FSMO roles which is the default configuration for an Essentials server. The only way that you can run multiple Essentials servers on the same network is if they are each running as member servers where they are domain-joined to a completely separate domain controller.

Enabling multiple instances of Windows Server Essentials Experience in your environment. Join a second server to the network. Step 2: Install Windows Server Essentials as a new replica domain controller. And, another user has very kindly posted the steps that he took for doing a successful domain migration here. Thanks for your comments, I am reworking my process. I did successfully join the existing WSE domain and get the essentials role installed on standard, I did the join just before the Start-WssConfigurationService.

Thanks for the links. I will probably go with Mariattes server-essentials tools. I believe I added the AD roles to the member server incorrectly before. Thanks for pointing that out for everyone.

Are you aware of a way to disable TLS 1. We are all being told to disable these but it appears that WSE is deeply dependent on them. I know that if I disable TLS 1. It seems like Microsoft is not going to update this role to newer requirements. Also that Office integration will require TLS 1. You can still harden the security on an Essentials server by disabling many of the other insecure protocols, ciphers, etc.

In fact, in my WSE RemoteApp add-in, I implement a script and other security settings that automates all of this hardening stuff for my customers while still leaving TLS 1. Basically, Microsoft needs to recompile the assemblies being used by Essentials so that they support a higher version of the.

Unfortunately, Essentials is pretty much considered to be abandonware by Microsoft now, and so unless something really forces their hand on this issue such as a major security breach in this area, etc.

How to resolve Azure backup agent issues when disabling TLS 1. While it will enable an older. NET v4. Without Microsoft directly implementing the fix within their own assemblies or possibly by some other forceful means within the. One can only hope that Microsoft will eventually step up and natively implement TLS 1.

See this comment below for a bit more info. For WCF using. NET Framework 3. Based on that Microsoft documentation, the WCF framework in. Unless Microsoft has changed something in this regard, disabling TLS 1. Additional testing is most definitely warranted here before folks proceed with implementing it on a production server IMHO. Mea culpa! Someone needs to buy that Joe Mills bloke a beer for figuring this one out!

When you choose to disable TLS 1. REG file that can be run on all of your client computers in order to add the required. NET Framework security settings. With TLS 1. Sounds like you put together your own reg kit. Enabling TLS 1.

Last night I had to re-enable TLS 1. It would not run successfully until I re-enabled TLS 1. Then it ran successfully, then I re-ran the PFS script. Still having trouble with some clients mapping drives but not others. Is there a way to post to the TLS 1. Temporarily enabling TLS 1. Any info as im running server with the above working, but i only use the automatic DNS name registration and updating for remote connection to router etc, ie the remotewebaccess.

As this is all i use dont use the backup or anything else, just the domain name for access to emby server and my router. You can have up to five different Microsoft personalized domain names associated with a single Microsoft account. Followed your details steps to the letter, eventually ;o. I did seriously consider buying something so I could get the msi but decided to go the manual route. Some copy and pasting later I had a rudimentary robocopy script to copy the required files and folders to USB and another to copy it to the standard install.

Then copied and pasted the other requirements, sanitizing the text in notepad. Have you seen anything like this before? See here and here for more info. So am I best starting my build again from scratch or is it recoverable, I will look through the links you sent now.

Everything has been going well since in installed your WSE installer on a fresh Std install. This is all i see in the Backup log. Please stop the conflicting operation, and then rerun the backup operation. Disk management then becomes unresponsive.

After a reboot everything looks OK and all my drives are good as far as S. Contemplating started again from scratch if I have too but would rather not. So looked at the wse installer on your site and the one I used. When I re-run mine it says in need to run a cleanup exe first and the site one says the older version must be removed first.

Will that have any ipmpatc on my data saved on the server? Other than that, have you tried running the backup repair wizard on your client computer backups just to see if that helps any? That way, if you ever encounter issues such as this one, you can just restore the server back to a time prior to when the problem first started occurring. I prefer a clean start to these things anyways so will go that route, plus I have an image of the server pre wse install which will speed things up.

I use the server backup process but also have a secondary image backup using Acronis TrueImage. It was Acronis that helped me out this time. Regards Christophe. Please go back and try again.

Tried Firefox and new Edge. Converting a current evaluation version to a current retail version. I believe that it has been fixed now. So if you want a server running longer than the 3-year extended trial, you have to buy a WS Standard license, right? Three years is quite a long time though. By that time, a completely new version of Windows Server will be available Windows Server , etc.

There is no resolution that I can find on the web. Very thorough! There wasnt an option Will this do all of the basic things without hosting the domain? So… Just as with and R2, , and that preceded it , Essentials must either be or see a domain controller and cannot be configured in a Workgroup. By default in an out-of-the-box install , Essentials is configured as the primary domain controller on your network.

That way, the configuration wizard for Essentials will see that the server is already joined to another domain, and it will then configure the Essentials server as a member server within that domain instead of configuring it as the primary domain controller. This is just how Microsoft designed Essentials to work, and it has nothing whatsoever to do with installing Essentials on Windows Server I followed your instructions above, I think, correctly and in the order that you specified.

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Best I can tell you here is to try it all again while making sure that you have properly copied over all of the required files along with their required permissions.

You can find the Logs folder here:. At line:1 char Hi Mike, ive gone ahead and got the MSI installer. You must use Windows Server Standard or Datacenter instead. Whereas, the WSEE installer performs a much more complete, and proper, installation i.

You should simply continue to enjoy it as it stands. Thx, Mike. Your manual process is still working, only two things: Setting -All gives an error — but can omitted as somebody mentioned, and the server name is not changed and cannot be changed later. So change server name before starting the process. In every test I run, the server always gets re named properly for me here.

I tried again, still no change of name. The EE part works well, the WS part not so much. I end up with a very limited administrator role, cannot access the network adapter or change the name of the server. When I expand the administrator role, I get locked out of the server on the well known trust issue.

Now getting your product. Your installer works as intended, it seems. I must have made an error somewhere in the manual process. Long running R2 Essentials server, in-place upgrade to Server Essentials. Bare metal restore to R2 Essentials. In-place upgrade to Server Essentials. You can change these settings at any time in the OneDrive section of PC settings. When you sign in to Windows with a Microsoft account, Windows syncs some of your settings and info with Microsoft servers to make it easier to have personalized experiences across multiple PCs.

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CEIP reports are sent to Microsoft to help improve the features our customers use most often, and to create solutions to common problems. Configuration information, including how many processors are in your PC, the number of network connections in use, screen resolutions for display devices, and which version of Windows is on your PC. Performance and reliability information, including how quickly an app responds when you click a button, how many problems you experience with an app or a device, and how quickly information is sent or received over a network connection.

App use information, including information such as how frequently you open apps, how often you use Windows Help and Support, which services you use to sign in to apps, and how many folders you typically create on your desktop. Because most users decide to participate in CEIP within several days of setting up Windows, Microsoft uses this information to analyze and improve the Windows setup experience. This information is sent to Microsoft when you’re connected to the Internet. Microsoft filters the information contained in CEIP reports to try to remove any individual identifiers that they might contain.

The GUID lets us determine which data is sent from a particular computer over time. CEIP might also periodically download a file to collect more relevant information about the way you useWindows and apps. This file helps Windows collect additional information to help Microsoft create solutions for common problems and better understand usage patterns of Windows and apps. Microsoft uses CEIP information to improve our products and services, as well as third-party software and hardware designed for use with these products and services.

We use the GUID to distinguish how widespread the feedback we receive is and how to prioritize it. For example, the GUID allows Microsoft to distinguish between one customer experiencing a problem one hundred times and one hundred customers experiencing the same problem once. For more info, see CEIP frequently asked questions. Windows Defender looks for malware and other potentially unwanted software on your PC.

MAPS will send information about malware and other potentially unwanted software to Microsoft, and may also send files that could contain malware. MAPS reports include information about potential malware files, such as file names, cryptographic hash, software publisher, size, and date stamps. These URLs might occasionally contain personal information such as search terms or data entered in forms. Reports might also include the actions you took when Windows Defender notified you that the potentially unwanted software was detected.

MAPS includes this information to help Microsoft gauge how effectively Windows Defender can detect and remove malware and potentially unwanted software, and to attempt to identify new malware.

Windows Defender detects changes to your PC by software that hasn’t been analyzed for risks yet. Windows Defender takes action on malware upon detection as part of its automatic remediation. Windows Defender completes a scheduled scan and automatically takes action on software that it detects based on your settings. Basic membership reports contain the information described in this section. Advanced membership reports are more comprehensive and might occasionally contain personal information, for example, file paths and partial memory dumps.

These reports, along with reports from other Windows Defender users who are participating in MAPS, help our researchers discover new threats more rapidly. Malware definitions are then created, and these updated definitions are made available to all users through Windows Update.

The sample report is used for further analysis. If a file is likely to contain personal information, you’ll be prompted before it is sent. If Windows Update hasn’t been able to obtain updated signatures for Windows Defender for a period of time, Windows Defender will attempt to use MAPS to download signatures from an alternate download location.

To help detect and fix certain kinds of malware infections, Windows Defender regularly sends MAPS some information about the security state of your PC. A number that uniquely identifies your PC is also sent. The reports might also be used for statistical, testing, or analytical purposes, and for generating definitions. In this case, Microsoft uses the contact information in your Microsoft account to contact you with details about the problem and how to fix it. If you choose to customize settings, you can control MAPS by selecting Get better protection from malware by sending info and files to Microsoft Active Protection Service when Windows Defender is turned on under Share info with Microsoft and other services.

The History feature provides a list of all apps on your PC that Windows Defender detects and the actions that were taken when the apps were detected. You can also view apps that Windows Defender prevents from running until you choose to remove them or allow them to run again these are called quarantined items.

The list of software that Windows Defender detects, the actions that you and other users take, and the actions that Windows Defender takes automatically are stored on your PC.

All users can view the history in Windows Defender to see malware and other potentially unwanted software that has attempted to install itself or run on the PC, or that has been allowed to run by another user. For example, if you learn about a new malware threat, you can check the History to see if Windows Defender has prevented it from infecting your PC.

Windows Error Reporting helps Microsoft and Microsoft partners diagnose problems in the software you use and provide solutions. To help prevent problems and make software more reliable, some solutions are also included in service packs and future versions of the software. Many software products are designed to work with Windows Error Reporting. If a problem occurs in one of these products, you might be asked if you want to report it.

Windows Error Reporting collects information that is useful for diagnosing and solving a problem that has occurred, such as where the problem happened in the software or hardware, the type or severity of the problem, files that help describe the problem, basic software and hardware information, or possible software performance and compatibility problems.

If you use Windows to host virtual machines, error reports sent to Microsoft might include information about virtual machines. Windows Error Reporting also collects information about apps, drivers, and devices to help Microsoft understand and improve app and device compatibility.

Information about the company that published an app or driver might be collected. If you choose to turn on automatic reporting while setting up Windows, the reporting service will automatically send basic information about where problems occur. In some cases, the reporting service will automatically send additional information to help diagnose the problem, such as a partial snapshot of PC memory. Some error reports might unintentionally contain personal information. For example, a report that contains a snapshot of PC memory might include your name, part of a document you were working on, or data that you recently submitted to a website.

To help diagnose certain types of problems, Windows Error Reporting might create a report containing extra information, such as log files. After you send a report, the reporting service might ask you for more info about the problem that occurred. If you choose to provide your phone number or email address in this information, your error report will be personally identifiable. Microsoft might contact you to request additional information to help solve the problem you reported.

Windows Error Reporting randomly generates a number called a globally unique identifier GUID that is sent to Microsoft with every error report. Microsoft uses information about errors and problems reported by Windows users to improve Microsoft products and services, as well as third-party software and hardware designed for use with these products and services.

We use the GUID to determine how widespread the feedback we receive is and how to prioritize it. However, if you choose to provide contact information as described above, we may use this information to contact you. If you choose express settings while setting up Windows, Windows Error Reporting will automatically send basic reports to check for solutions to problems online.

If you choose to customize settings, you can control Windows Error Reporting by selecting Use Windows Error Reporting to check online for solutions to problems under Check online for solutions. For more info, see the Microsoft Error Reporting Service privacy statement. Windows File Association helps users associate file types with specific apps.

Apps that are typically associated with the file name extension are displayed. If you choose to use Windows File Association, the file name extension for example, docx or pdf and your PC display language are sent to Microsoft.

When a file association is made with a particular app, a unique identifier for the app is sent to identify the default app for each file type. When you submit a file name extension, the service returns a list of the apps that Microsoft is aware of that can open files of that extension. Unless you choose to download and install an app, no file type associations will change.

When you try to open a file type without an associated app, you can choose whether to use Windows File Association. No file association information is sent to Microsoft unless you decide to use the service. Windows Online Help and Support, when turned on, allows you to get the most up-to-date help and support content available when you’re connected to the Internet.

When you use Windows Online Help and Support, your help search queries are sent to Microsoft, as well as your requests for help content when a link is clicked. Windows Online Help and Support also uses standard web technologies like cookies. Microsoft uses the information to return help topics in response to your search queries, to return the most relevant results, to develop new content, and to improve existing content.

We use cookies and other web technologies to make it easier to navigate help content and to help us better understand how users use Windows Online Help. Online Help and Support is turned on by default. To change this setting, tap or click the Settings icon at the top of the Help and Support window, and then select or clear Get online Help.

To clear the cookies used by Windows Help, open Internet Options in Control Panel, click or tap the Delete button under Browsing history , select Cookies and website data , and click or tap Delete.

HEIP sends Microsoft information about the version of Windows that your PC is running and about how you use Windows Help and Support, including queries you enter when you search Windows Help and Support and any ratings or feedback on the Help topics presented to you.

When you search, browse, or provide any ratings or feedback on the Help topics presented to you, this information will be sent to Microsoft. The data collected is used to identify trends and usage patterns so that Microsoft can improve the quality of content we provide and the relevance of our search results. We use the GUID to determine how widespread the issues we receive are and how to prioritize them.

For example, the GUID allows Microsoft to distinguish between one customer experiencing an issue one hundred times and one hundred customers experiencing the same issue once. The Help Experience Improvement Program doesn’t intentionally collect any information that could be used to personally identify you. If you choose express settings while setting up Windows, you join the Help Experience Improvement Program. If you choose to customize settings, you can control Help Experience Improvement Program settings by selecting Send Microsoft info about how I use Help, as part of the Help Experience Improvement Program under Help improve Microsoft products and services.

After setting up Windows, you can change this setting in Windows Help and Support. You can use Remote Assistance to invite someone to connect to your PC and help you with a PC problem, even if that person isn’t nearby. After connecting, the other person can view your PC. With your permission, the other person can use his or her mouse and keyboard to control your PC and show you how to fix a problem. Remote Assistance creates an encrypted connection between the two PCs over the Internet or the local network.

When someone uses Remote Assistance to connect to your PC, that person can see your desktop and any open documents, including any visible private information. In addition, if you allow the other person to control your PC with his or her mouse and keyboard, that person can do things like delete files or change settings.

After a connection is made, Remote Assistance will exchange contact information including user name, PC name, and account picture. A session log file maintains a record of all Remote Assistance connections.

The information is used to establish an encrypted connection and to provide the other person access to your desktop. Before you allow someone to connect to your PC, close any open apps or documents that you don’t want the other person to see.

If at any time you feel uncomfortable about what that person is seeing or doing on your PC, press the Esc key to end the session. You can turn off session logging and contact information exchange by clearing these options in Remote Assistance settings. Windows Search lets you search your device and the Internet from one place.

Please note that there are other, separate search features on your device provided by Microsoft, such as search in the Windows Store, Internet Explorer, and other Microsoft products. If you choose to get web search results, Windows sends what you type in Windows Search to Microsoft. To help improve search results, Windows Search also sends information to Microsoft about how you interact with the feature. Windows Search also sends an identifier to provide personalized search results based on your interactions with Bing and other Microsoft products and services.

If you sign in to Windows with a Microsoft account, the identifier will be associated with your Microsoft account. You can choose not to get personalized results in Windows Search, in which case this identifier won’t be sent. If you allow Windows Search to use your location, the physical location of your device as provided by the Windows Location Platform will be sent to Microsoft as a part of each search request.

Alternatively, we may attempt to derive your approximate physical location based on your IP address. If you choose to use Windows Search to get web search results, we use the search term you’ve provided, your local and online search history, information associated with your Microsoft account, and the location of your device to provide relevant search suggestions, personalized search results, and personalized experiences in other Microsoft products and services.

To learn more about how your data is used, read the Bing privacy statement. When you use Windows Search to search within a third-party app, use of the information collected will be subject to the third party’s privacy practices. If you search within a Microsoft app, the app’s privacy practices will be explained in its privacy statement.

If you choose express settings when setting up Windows, you allow Windows Search to get search suggestions and web results, and you allow Microsoft to use data from Windows Search including location to personalize Windows Search and other Microsoft experiences.

If you choose to customize settings, you can decide whether to change these settings for Windows Search. After setting up Windows, you can change these settings in Search in PC settings. Clearing your search history instructs Microsoft not to use any previously collected search history to personalize search suggestions or order search results.

It doesn’t clear advertising or other personalization info including information derived from your search history , nor does it delete information that is used by Microsoft in aggregate to improve search results and other Microsoft experiences. That information is retained and anonymized, as described in the Bing privacy statement. You can manage Microsoft advertising and other personalization info online.

Dynamic Update makes it possible for Windows to perform a one-time check with Windows Update to get the latest updates for your PC while Windows is being installed. If updates are found, Dynamic Update automatically downloads and installs them so your PC is up to date the first time that you sign in or use it.

To install compatible drivers, Dynamic Update sends information to Microsoft about your PC’s hardware. The types of updates that Dynamic Update can download to your PC include:. Installation updates. Important software updates for installation files to help ensure a successful installation. In-box driver updates. Important driver updates for the version of Windows that you’re installing.

Additionally, if you install Windows from the Windows Store, Dynamic Update will download and install the latest updates to Windows, as well as certain hardware drivers your PC needs. Dynamic Update reports information to Microsoft about your PC’s hardware to help identify the correct drivers for your system.

If you install Windows from the Windows Store, Setup downloads and installs updates automatically. This feature sends a single report to Microsoft containing basic information about your PC and how you installed Windows. Microsoft uses this information to help improve the installation experience and to create solutions to common installation problems.

The report generally includes information about your installation experience, such as the date of installation, the time it took for each installation phase to complete, whether the installation was an upgrade or a new installation of the product, version details, operating system language, media type, PC configuration, and success or failure status, along with any error codes.

If you choose to participate in the Installation Improvement Program, the report is sent to Microsoft when you’re connected to the Internet. The GUID doesn’t contain any personal information and isn’t used to identify you. Microsoft and our partners use the report to help improve our products and services. You can choose to participate in this program when you install Windows by selecting I want to help make the installation of Windows better.

When you install Windows, Setup helps you determine if your current PC is ready for an upgrade to Windows 8. When determining compatibility, we collect certain information about your potential upgrade experience, such as the capabilities of your computer hardware, the devices connected to your computer, and the programs installed on your computer. We use the information collected to determine the right drivers for your PC and to determine compatibility of your PC, programs, and devices with Windows 8.

We may also use it to improve our products and services. If you install Windows from the Windows Store or from physical media inside an existing Windows installation, the information described in this section will be sent to Microsoft.

Windows Share lets you share content between Windows Store apps that support sharing. It also lets you share content with your friends. When sharing, the source app passes content to the target app only after you select the target in the Share pane. So that you can access them more easily, target apps and people that you frequently share content with will appear in a list in the Share pane.

The information stored about how often you share with target apps and people that you frequently share content with is used to sort the list in the Share pane in order of frequency.

If you share information with a third-party app, use of the information collected will be subject to the third party’s privacy policy. If you share with a Microsoft app, the app’s privacy practices will be explained in its privacy statement.

By default, Windows stores information about your use of Windows Share. Windows SmartScreen helps keep your PC safe by checking downloaded files and web content within apps to help protect you from malicious software and potentially unsafe web content. Before an unknown or potentially unsafe downloaded file is opened, Windows will display a warning. If SmartScreen detects potentially unsafe web content in an app, Windows will display a warning in place of the content. To help protect your privacy, the information sent to Microsoft is encrypted via SSL.

If you choose to use Windows SmartScreen to block potentially unsafe content in apps, Windows sends information to the SmartScreen online service including the addresses and types of content that some Windows Store apps access when you use them. In response, the online service tells your PC whether the content has been reported to Microsoft as unsafe or suspicious. Reports sent to Microsoft include information such as the name or identifier of the app and the full addresses of web content accessed by the app.

To help protect your privacy, the information sent to Microsoft is encrypted. Information that might be associated with a webpage accessed inside an app, such as search terms, might be included in the address sent to Microsoft. For example, if you look up a word in a dictionary app, the word you look up might be sent to Microsoft as part of the full address accessed by the app.

Microsoft filters these addresses to try to remove personal information where possible. Windows generates a number called a globally unique identifier GUID that is sent to Microsoft with each report. Microsoft uses the information described above to provide warnings to you about potentially unsafe downloaded files and content within apps.

For example, if SmartScreen detects a potential threat inside an app that supports SmartScreen, Windows will display a warning in place of the content. We also use the information to improve SmartScreen and other products and services.

If you choose express settings while setting up Windows, you turn on Windows SmartScreen. If you choose to customize settings, you can control Windows SmartScreen by selecting Use SmartScreen online services to help protect against malicious content in sites loaded by Windows Store apps and Internet Explorer, and malicious downloads under Help protect your PC and your privacy.

Windows Speech Recognition provides speech recognition within Windows and for any apps that choose to use it. Windows Speech Recognition increases its accuracy by learning how you use language, including the sounds and words you like to use. Windows Speech Recognition stores a list of words and their pronunciations on your PC.

Words and pronunciations are added to this list using the Speech Dictionary, and by using Windows Speech Recognition to dictate and correct words. When the Windows Speech Recognition document review feature is turned on, text from Microsoft Office Word documents with doc or docx file name extensions and email from email folders other than Deleted items or Junk email on your PC and on any connected file shares included in your Windows search index locations is collected and stored in one-, two-, or three-word fragments.

One-word fragments include only words you have added to custom dictionaries, and two- or three-word fragments include only words found in standard dictionaries. All collected information is stored in your personal speech profile on your PC. However, administrators can access any profile on your PC. You can review the data before it is sent. If you choose to send this information, acoustic adaptation data that was used to adapt to your audio characteristics is also sent.

If you complete a speech training session, Windows Speech Recognition will ask you whether you wish to send your speech profile information to Microsoft. This information might include recordings of your voice while you completed the training session and the other information from your personal speech profile. Windows Speech Recognition uses words from the speech profile to convert your speech to text.

Microsoft uses personal speech profile information to improve our products and services. You can choose whether to run Windows Speech Recognition. If you run Windows Speech Recognition, the document review feature is on by default. You can choose to change your document review settings the first time you run Windows Speech recognition.

You can change your document review settings or delete personal speech profiles and most document review information by going to Speech Recognition in Control Panel and clicking Advanced speech options. You can control the locations that document review will collect word fragments from by modifying the locations included in your Windows search index. To view or modify what locations are included in your Windows search index, open Indexing Options in Control Panel. At the end of any training session you’ll be given the choice whether to send your training and other profile information to Microsoft.

You can also send information when Windows Speech Recognition is launched by right-clicking Microphone , and then clicking Help improve speech recognition. In either case, you can view all data files before they are sent, and can choose not to send them. The Windows Store lets you find, manage, and install apps for your PC. The Store lets you find and install apps for your PC.

To find and install apps, you must sign in to the Store with a Microsoft account. This gives the Store access to information in your Microsoft account profile, such as your name, email address, and account picture.

The Store collects and associates the following additional information with your Store account:. Payments to the Store. Information about what you bought, how much you paid, and how you paid when buying apps or making in-app purchases with your Store account.

Apps you’ve installed. In addition to storing this information online with your Store account, the Store stores licensing information on your PC for each app you install. This information identifies you as the owner of the license.

PCs you’ve installed apps on. The make, model, and computer name of each PC you install apps on, along with a number that uniquely identifies the PC. In-box apps: Provides reliability and stabilization fixes for inbox apps, including Camera, Photo, and Video Viewer.

Stabilizes OneDrive integration with inbox apps. Graphics and multimedia platform: Improves graphics and multimedia reliability and performance, including stabilized visuals across power states. Improves 3D performance. Improves the handling of PlayTo. File server and clustering: Improves Enterprise Client Sync experience.

A fix is scheduled to be included with the upcoming update rollup in November You experience an error when resuming a computer from hibernation, and a blank screen is shown. This issue may occur with some computers that have TPM chips enabled. Microsoft is aware of this issue, and this article will be updated when a fix is available.

 
 

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The case info I posted above is from another partner who reached out to me regarding a support case he opened up. In this case, a system administrator has to create accounts for users in Microsoft

 

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Type the credentials for the account that you want to use to connect to your Microsoft subscription, and then click Next. Let’s take a look at the security measures they have developed to protect it. First we should know what Server R2 Essentials is.