Installing small business server 2011 usb

I would highly recommend reading the readme file on the process. When you have SBS it is unique to certain driver updates. You can call into our software group HCMS for assistance on the unique process of updating. Here is a link to the Repository Manager. View solution in original post.

Follow Willy's recommendations, but just for your information, as your are new to Dell Systems Management, here are the main ones:. OMSA OpenManage Server Administrator - this is the management software that runs in the OS, allowing you direct access to hardware logs, hardware information including fan speeds, temperature, etc. This should be installed on any Dell system running a supported OS. By itself, this is most useful when installing Server , as would need an additional tool OS Support Pack.

This can also be used when updating firmware from outside the OS - this method would also require SUU below to update the firmware. This will also install the Dell Utility Partition for integrated diagnostics. It also contains diagnostics and other management utilities.

It can also be run from within an OS to update drivers and firmware. Browse Community. PowerEdge OS Forum. Turn on suggestions. Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type. Showing results for. Search instead for. Yes, you are right, Mezzmo server does not use qWave. Replies: 5 Last Post: , AM. Replies: 3 Last Post: , AM. Replies: 2 Last Post: , AM. Replies: 1 Last Post: , AM. Replies: 4 Last Post: , AM.

Bookmarks Bookmarks Digg del. Archive Top. The time now is AM. I wrote down all my keystrokes for future reference. After figuring this out, I deleted the cfg. The installation began. I used RDC instead of a web browser. Since I was using RDC, it was prompting for a username and password. The default username and password is Administrator and Admin.

I installed the current version of Stablebit for drive pooling and installed my two 2TB drives. I am very happy that my MediaSmart is up and running. USB made bootable with fat32 as recommended in comments instead of ntfs quick. Made cfg. Tried with then without InstallSKU line. What am I doing wrong? If the hard drive boots before the USB it asks for boot disk after the hard drive attempt fails and never attempts the USB.

I changed the order after reboot and was able to proceed. Don't know how to do that on the EX The test system ran into another problem. Errors found in answer file Please verify that the following entries in the answer file are correct: PlainTextPassword.

Update: Had to continue manually to find out what the problem was. Differentiating them should fix that. Now I just need to figure out why the 3TB didn't work on the server yet it did on the test system, plus make the hard drive boot first after the USB has already booted once. I bought a debug board to connect a keyboard and monitor. I had to press F11 to open the boot menu and select HDD. The install wouldn't even begin until I did that and once I did, it was fine.

If you don't hear the HDD clicking within less than a minute, it's not working, don't wait all night to find that out. The health lights will change color and go on and off randomly. Monitor your router to see when the server finally comes up I set the router to give the server MAC a static IP address then navigate there to finish the install. I used the verbose cfg. I just bought a 2tb WD Black and it isn't working. I have a few s that a friend of mine's company was tossing without the hard drives and the first one I tried worked fine with an old used gb drive I had lying around.

I know you put this up 3 years ago, but thank you so very much for keeping it up! You rock, and just saved me who knows how much money in resolving the issue I had. Thank you!!! Hi Randy, good to hear. Ya, I try to keep up on the blog comments, at least once a week, although most of the mind-share has well, left my mind. Now im in bother as it wont boot after shutting it down. It looks like it does a repair but still wont boot.

How can i recover without having to wipe anything. Dont want to loose data as i have no recent back up but it looks like if i follow the same instructions it will wipe one of the drives. If everything is on a single disk, you'll have to plug that disk into another computer to save the data.

If the boot partition is on it's own disk, I recommend disconnecting the other disks and then going through this procedure again. Best of luck, I hate boot problems. I just followed these instructions on my x and am delighted to say it worked a treat, even today all these years later. Your article has given my machine new life, thank you very much!

This is great and all but nothing is working for me. Can't you create screenshots and pictures so we can make sure everything is correct? I am a noob at this kind of thing, despite my technical experience with other stuff. I hope you can update this, it would be much appreciated. I followed every specific detail that you provided to us but it is not working for me at all. Nothing has been working out for me. I been working on it all night trying to figure it out and see what I did wrong and researched through different websites and most were similar to yours and directed me to your article.

This is a good article but something is wrong. I even put it on front and it still didn't work. The hard drive was spinning but no light came on for it. Can you help me out or maybe provide screenshots and pictures of how you do it on your article? Hi Kurosaki, Wow, I wrote this article 5 years ago, and while I still in April of , Have a Home Server box at my house, it's running on an HP MicroServer, which has monitor outputs and is an actual full server albeit designed to be underpowered.

The only thing Home Server does for me these days is run Plex server, and centralized back-up. I wish I could be more help. Good luck friend. Hi Daniel, all, Did any of you manage to try the technical preview of Windows Server ? Any idea what the process is to get it installed on a Data Vault? Hi Pierre, Likely the hardware requirements of Server are too heavy to work on the Data Vault, that's a good guess, like trying to run Win95 on an Apple watch!

Kudos to anyone who can figure it out. I'm surprised you still have a DataVault around, mine have all passed on. Thanks Sean. I always thought newest version of MS were lighter and lighter. It's actually the case with MS Windows in the last few years. I purchased this X many many years ago but never used it until now! So it's brand new I thought of setting it up as a backup for the family's pictures and music.

Do you recommend or it's too outdated? Hi Sean, I finally took the time to set my X up. I actually installed R2 Standard, and it's running very well, a little slow given the 1.

Now considering an upgrade to Server and 4gb ram; let's see On the first line of the. Thanks in advance. Sorry Rick, I decided to put windows 7 and connected keyboard and mouse. So it justs sits now in a corner of my computer room. I installed a newer intel processor more ram and the card that allows me keyboard and mouse. Back when I followed Daniel's column. Well I got it installed.

Seems the name didn't make any diff as it installed fine. Mainly doing this to keep busy as I am an old retired guy and keeps me from getting bored at times. Upgraded the processor and the old Ex working pretty good.

Thank you. Everything worked like a charm. The only thing I ran into was that the server apparently prompts, using the web interface, to finish the installation. Progress appeared to be excruciatingly slow with the progress bar only moving a percent at a time in the beginning but after the first reboot, all went a lot faster. Post a Comment. Monday, April 04, I hear it works on the ex48x, but I only tried the ex49x Creating the Bootable Thumb Drive The first step here will be to prepare your media, usually on your client computer.

I already have instructions on how to do that here. The unattend file is called cfg. Inside the cfg. Remove the drive from the server and attach it to another PC I used Windows 7 and then erase the primary partition.

Installing Windows Home Server This is where the fun starts. Installation without feedback. I recommend putting the box up on the desk where you can see the Health LED light and also listen to the hard drive s. It needs to be the bottom-rear USB port. Power on the server. The server should automatically boot off the USB key, format the drive and install all of the operating system files.

You should hear the hard drives during this phase. Now just plug in your USB Backup drive, and set it up however you like. Kudos to MediaSmartServer. Net While I did these instructions myself, I was struggling at the location of having to format the hard drive, so kudos to the folks over at MediaSmartServer.

Their steps helped get me over that hump, although I noticed that their cfg. My cfg. The cfg. We recommend. For example, if you plan to use remote. Newer Post Older Post Home. CBers that MicroServer offer is awesome. All of them. The post says this. Password required requires letters, numbers and symbols in my attempt. Hi Thank you very much for this Howto. It was very helpfull. Will that method allow me to install Windows 7 on my Ex? I believe you want 64 bit. In fact, I don't think there is a bit version of WHS Worked first time without a hitch on my EX This comment has been removed by the author.

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