This table and our site's content may be used on condition that this notice and link remains intact and unaltered. All products are sourced in South Africa from the official suppliers and the warranty is that of the local supplier. This table has been carefully researched and generated by ComXpert International CC ( //however, errors and omissions may occur. Specifications: ©2023 Respective owners and brand holders. Operating System: Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Foundation.You are better off installing a NAS if all you need is a file server. Might as well purchase 2 Server 2013 Standard Editions if you want: Its three times the work, three times the cost and requires three servers licenses to do with 2012, what you could do with one 2008R2 license. You connect a Universal Serial Bus (USB) storage device to the computer. Note To change the setting, click the Change advanced power settings link under Power Options. The internet is a one-way money pipeline to Microsoft. You configure the Turn off hard disk after setting to a time interval in Windows 8.1 or Windows Server 2012 R2. No worthwhile 'deal' has ever come out of the city of Redmond. You cannot have Remote Web Apps if you load RDP on your DC. You cannot load Exchange and RDP on the same box. You cannot load Exchange on a DC, or Foundation or Essentials You cannot load RDP on Foundation or Essentials No 'deal'Īll you get with Foundation or Essentials is AD and Group Policy.

The stripped down version that come with your server, then the full version when you discover Foundatoin and Essentials gives Its special alright, because you get to buy it twice. So you are hooked into this 'deal' by Microsoft Special Offer. Have to buy Server 2012 Standard anyhow, + the CALs. But Microsoft strips it out, calls it a DEAL (Essentials and Foundation), yet if you want the good stuff, you're gonna What good is it if your can't run Hyper-V and Remote desktop services? Those are the two apps small business need most. So load up a dozen Win8Pro virutal sessions on that Win8 VirtualBox with up to 512GB Memory and Create your own Ghetto Remote Desktop Server with Foundation and Windows 8. (Or Sun Virtual Box (free) (or VmWare(Free).

It seems asinine that you cannot install this role on Foundation, but seemingly you could work around it with Win8.

Then run your Server 2012 Foundation under Win8. I suppose then, you would have to install Windows 8 and Hyper-V as your guest or core.

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