Just started to configure a brand new server from Dell with Windows
Server 2012 Essentials R2. Surprised to be waiting over 15 minutes with
the Windows logo and a fancy spinning beach ball.
If it's doing something, certainly it would be telling me, right,
instead of just sitting there looking pretty?
Paul
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What's the disk light doing?
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On Wed, 3 Dec 2014, at 10:30 PM, Paul McNett wrote:
> Just started to configure a brand new server from Dell with Windows
> Server 2012 Essentials R2. Surprised to be waiting over 15 minutes with
> the Windows logo and a fancy spinning beach ball.
>
> If it's doing something, certainly it would be telling me, right,
> instead of just sitting there looking pretty?
>
> Paul
>
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On 12/3/14, 2:40 PM, Alan Bourke wrote:
> What's the disk light doing?
There weren't any blinking lights... After about 20 minutes I got a page
to choose the partitioning, did that, pressed ok, that window didn't
clear, but nothing was responsive. Waited 5 minutes and left it to check
again tomorrow.
It seems like progress bars are only eye candy these days. Because they
are in a loop and running smoothly all the time, and not indicating any
sort of percentage done, I'm left wondering if the system is doing
anything at all (besides updating the eye candy). Wouldn't some sort of
text output along with a timestamp be better, so I could step away and
come back and see if the state has changed at all? Especially on a
server? Don't system admins want output?
Paul
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Doing the same thing here, and had patiently waited!
And I am using a 1.6GHz CPU (AMD E350)! :)
On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 6:30 AM, Paul McNett <paul@mcnettware.com> wrote:
> Just started to configure a brand new server from Dell with Windows Server
> 2012 Essentials R2. Surprised to be waiting over 15 minutes with the Windows
> logo and a fancy spinning beach ball.
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On Thu, 4 Dec 2014, at 01:13 AM, Paul McNett wrote:
> Wouldn't some sort of
> text output along with a timestamp be better, so I could step away and
> come back and see if the state has changed at all? Especially on a
> server? Don't system admins want output?
>
I would definitely prefer a more Linux-like approach in these things,
where you can see exactly what the hell it's doing even if you have to
click a button to do it. Sort of like the Ubuntu update procedure.
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On 12/3/2014 3:30 PM, Paul McNett wrote:
> Just started to configure a brand new server from Dell with Windows
> Server 2012 Essentials R2. Surprised to be waiting over 15 minutes
> with the Windows logo and a fancy spinning beach ball.
>
> If it's doing something, certainly it would be telling me, right,
> instead of just sitting there looking pretty?
>
> Paul
Paul: I set up W 2012 Essentials and noticed the same thing. I just
waited until it looked like things were done and all was well. System
configured easy and works nicely. The promises of 25 remote users is a
little deceiving though. Remote access on this server is accessing
files, not running applications. I added TSPlus and it is working
fantastic.
HTH
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On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 6:19 AM, Jeff Johnson <jeff@san-dc.com> wrote:
>
>
>>
> Paul: I set up W 2012 Essentials and noticed the same thing. I just
> waited until it looked like things were done and all was well. System
> configured easy and works nicely. The promises of 25 remote users is a
> little deceiving though. Remote access on this server is accessing files,
> not running applications. I added TSPlus and it is working fantastic.
>
> HTH
>
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You confuse a file server for 25 with a personal computer for 25 separate
users. Sorry but apples to bananas here.
Remote access is only needed for specific actions or activities such as
installs or maintenance.
If you remote into a sever to run software daily you are doing something
incorrectly.
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> You confuse a file server for 25 with a personal computer for 25 separate
> users. Sorry but apples to bananas here.
>
> Remote access is only needed for specific actions or activities such as
> installs or maintenance.
Yeah, Essentials 2012 ONLY support two RDP users, and they have to be
admins. It's only intended for remote admin.
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+1
Alan Bourke wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Dec 2014, at 01:13 AM, Paul McNett wrote:
>> Wouldn't some sort of
>> text output along with a timestamp be better, so I could step away and
>> come back and see if the state has changed at all? Especially on a
>> server? Don't system admins want output?
>>
> I would definitely prefer a more Linux-like approach in these things,
> where you can see exactly what the hell it's doing even if you have to
> click a button to do it. Sort of like the Ubuntu update procedure.
>
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Just wondering: Why is everyone installing Windows Server Essentials ?
Is there something I'm missing?
Regular Windows Server/Win8 installs pretty quick.
On 4 December 2014 at 18:34, Mike Copeland <mike@ggisoft.com> wrote:
> +1
>
> Alan Bourke wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 4 Dec 2014, at 01:13 AM, Paul McNett wrote:
>>>
>>> Wouldn't some sort of
>>> text output along with a timestamp be better, so I could step away and
>>> come back and see if the state has changed at all? Especially on a
>>> server? Don't system admins want output?
>>>
>> I would definitely prefer a more Linux-like approach in these things,
>> where you can see exactly what the hell it's doing even if you have to
>> click a button to do it. Sort of like the Ubuntu update procedure.
>>
>
>
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