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Update: The Microsoft’s script was taken down. I have been contacted by someone look at the comments section who has published an alternative. Get it here. The PowerShell script can be used to query and reset terminal server grace period to default days if it is nearing to the end. We often need to deploy Terminal Server Remote Desktop Session Host in for testing purposes in development environments allowing more than 2 concurrent Remote Desktop Sessions on it.

In the comment section, there was a user who affirmed that he verified it on Windows Server as well and it works just fine. With that, stay tuned for more. Connect on: Facebook.

Feel free to network via Twitter vladan. On the contrary! The first option, the deletion of the registry key, worked like a charm on a Windows 16 version The deletion of the registry key, worked like a charm on Windows version After delete the regkey its back after reboot server and server gets in days licens.

I am also facing the same issue. The graceperiod in regedit is coming again and again after the restart. I have deleted so many time and restarted the server. Right Click Windows powershell run as administrator 3. I followed the first step and it worked like a charm. I double click it and it briefly shows a window and disappears. First time I tried it, it did not work. The counter reset but when the original grace period ended I was not able to authenticate to the servers.

I resolved it by repeating the process but also opening regedit by right clicking and hitting run as administrator. Just an FYI for anyone who had issues with this process. 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. Application: SharedServiceHost. Exception Info: System. FileNotFoundException at System. String at System. Init System. String, System. FileMode, System. FileAccess, Int32, Boolean, System. FileShare, Int32, System.

String, Boolean, Boolean, Boolean at System. FileAccess, System. FileOptions, System. String, Boolean at System. FileMode at Microsoft. String at Microsoft. Run Microsoft. ITaskDataLink at Microsoft. RunTasks System. HandleWindowsUpdate System. RunInitialConfiguration at System. RunInternal System. ExecutionContext, System. ContextCallback, System. Object, Boolean at System. Run System. CallCallback at System. Fire at System. Faulting application name: SharedServiceHost.

Looks like one of the dependency files are missing on your system. 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. Create a server backup just in case I need to roll back to In-place upgrade to Server Standard. First problem: All of the server essentials services were set to disabled.

Turned on what I needed to automatic and rebooted. Hey, would you look at that? Dashboard looked much happier.

Only thing I seem to have lost are the server backups from and In place upgrades from prior versions of Windows Server Essentials and even domain migrations are just going to end up causing you a lot of extra work and grief in the long run. Thus, and as Robert Pearman mentions in his article, it only seems to present itself as an issue when doing an in place upgrade from prior versions of Windows Server Essentials to Windows Server Essentials. Nice find on locating and linking us to his fix for the problem though.

Windows Server Essentials , etc. The wizard will then recognize the in place upgrade, and configure it accordingly. I have been using this on a server of almost a year now with everything working great.

I have upgraded my Windows 10 PCs to version and now they show offline and not available in the console. Doing that will force the connector software to skip joining the client computer to your domain a second time and messing up your user profile on the client computer. Thereby saving you a lot of grief in the long run. I get the following error:. Can that be language related or build related page redirects me to What version of Windows Server vNext are you using? Received my first update for the experience role and all updated perfect.

Thanks for your continious support Mike. The latest NET Framework 4. Great Guide. First time running through it. Everything went fairly smoothly minus some missing spaces in my copy paste in step 6 preventing service creation until step 8. The system cannot find the file specified. InvokeEsse ntialsConfigureServiceCommand. You must of missed it while performing step 4 in the manual install instructions.

Now there is a new build available: Windows Server Preview Build I could download that and upgrade, but that would be wise, I suppose? Microsoft is currently releasing new builds of it at a feverous pace about once every week or two. I had a working setup a year or so ago when the article was published, but my recent attempts at this all fail. I went as far as installing server , updating it as of Jan 1 , installing the role, but not configuring it, then sharing the whole c drive.

Went back to my box and wrote a script in cmd to run all the powershells in order, then robocopy the files. Did the services, the firewall rule, and vpn fix. But I cannot start wssconfiguration from powershell. The solutions there were to ensure the config wizard was not run on the install. Does the installer available free with purchase of another product still work on the most recent server install? Are you running the PowerShell cmdlet from an elevated i. Run as administrator PowerShell prompt?

Good luck! Thanks for your reply, Im sure its much more straight forward with the installer, I need to look over your products and either choose the least expensive or see what seems interesting. If you want to look at it, here is my script that I am running as admin as a notepad file saved as wsee. I have tried it manually too, The error I get running it on a bare stock version of winserver with all the switches is. So its something in the files not allowing wssconfigurationservice to start.

I was wondering if it had to do with the latest build versions of winserver or winserver, since this write up and the original source files are just over 2 years old. A final question on the installer, If I license your least expensive product and use the installer on my dc, but then reimage it say a year down the line, or upgrade to , will your installer still work since its the same physical pc?

This could possibly be due to a permissions issue on the following file:. If you simply re-install on the exact same Windows Server product edition e. Standard or Datacenter , and underlying hardware or VM configuration , then you will be just fine even after in place upgrading to , etc. Perfect, thanks Mike, Im still looking into your products on what may be valuable in a homelab environment, but just to update.

I did get the manual method working, my script actually had two typos in it, one line i robocopyed from z: to z: instead of c: thus not actually copying anything, that was the start menu and if you look closely at the wsssetupcmdlets copy, you will notice that i am copying it to the wrong directory, thus not allowing the setup to run. I have corrected these errors, and all ran well. Thanks again for your pointers. Sorry to make a software dev read through my terrible batch programming.

But hey, it was quick and dirty, and in the end after fixing typos, it did work. Im sure theres a more efficient way of writing it, but I like automation, which is why im still probably going to buy a product to look into the installer. Glad to hear that you found those typos, and correcting then resolved your issue. Nice sleuthing! So hopefully that will just fix me up. Thanks for your support.

Thanks again Mike, I plan to format and reinstall serverstandard prior to using your installer just to ensure nothing goes wrong. Its a Homelab and not production, so I can do that basically whenever I choose lol, but as for the VPN fix, I have already applied both of those.

The error I am getting is more similiar to what is described here: Set up Anywhere Access wizard completed with errors, VPN was not configured successfully. I am going to wait to see what happens when using your installer. Just to update, it seems like everything went well when using your installer, Anywhere Access and VPN have installed and configured successfully. Perhaps Mike, you may want to look into silently installing this package with the WSEE Installer, just to save users that step.

Folks will simply need to follow the download link that Microsoft provides and manually install the appropriate version of the Windows ADK on their servers for themselves if they want to enable the client restore feature.

I remember seeing this message when I used it last time, but I thought I could proceed at my own risk. Now it just ends the install. I do not care about any other pre-WSE19 features. Is there a way to only install the WS backups feature? Why not just convert i. Can I use a previous installer version to do the install anyways? It has worked perfectly for me on the server I have reloaded a few times. Hi Mike! I installed the Install WSE Experience on Server successfully and was able to configure everything per your excellent write up.

Please contact your administrator. Other than that, have you by chance disabled TLS 1. If so, then you might want to try temporarily re-enabling TLS 1. One thing I did not work out is whether you have to setup e. Is there a way to run the configuration wizard for the Essentials Experience rather than doing it through the command line?

If not, then it is probably worth calling out the need for these steps to be done as part of the preparation steps as, once setup it seems impossible to change some of these settings, at least if the server is the Primary Domain Controller. Glad to hear that the manual installation went well for you.

WSEE sure does work really nice on it though. For more info on why see here. This is just one of the many things that the WSEE Installer nets you over attempting to do the installation manually. The WSEE Installer will result in a MUCH more proper, complete, secure, and maintainable installation seeing as it does way more than I could ever possibly explain in a succinct list of manual install steps.

Got the health warning that an update was available, so I downloaded and ran the updater. It seemed to work okay, but I still have the health warning. Does it still come back again even after doing that? Thanks for bringing it to my attention. Thanks for looking into it! Have you done the tests? The Microsoft Online Integration Services seem to be a real mess. That being said… I broke down yesterday and set up a 30 day trial for Microsoft Premium , and tried testing out the integration stuff.

Sure enough, it always fails with the the above mentioned generic error under both and Microsoft has also implemented something called security defaults in Azure Active Directory , and since enforcing the enabling MFA on all of your user accounts within 14 days is part of this security feature, you will need to disable it as follows:. My question is how do I fix the issues with Microsoft Cloud Integration Services failing when configuring them?

Unfortunately, there are just way too many steps involved in making the online services integration features work properly for me to be able to provide them within the succinct list of manual install steps which are already fairly lengthy and complicated. If I already followed the guide and have WSEE working on Windows , but need to get Office Integration working can I just run the installer, or do I need to remove it and start over?

I would agree but it would be a lot of work to rebuild this server. I ran the install and it appears to have worked. Office integration is now working. Thank you for the help. Thanks for letting everyone know. Only I had prob with setup, but after I created domain manually, everything went smooth. Is the license somehow connected to a hardware fingerprint? Because the only thing that comes to mind is that I have upgraded my motherboard and cpu in my server since originally installing wse.

Any way to get that fixed up? Yes it is. Registration Key be reset in order to resolve that issue. I took a few days off to celebrate the resurrection of our Lord and Savior with friends and family. Can I deploy N. For this scenario the branch office server have to be a dc? Please let me know. As mentioned in the main article above, the WSEE Installer is only made available to existing license holders of our software products e.

Thanks Mike, Just wanted to confirm for other interested persons, the installation of WSEE on server standard which had been updated in place from a configured Server Essentials server. The event logs indicated the error, which was the permissions on a registry key. All domain settings, Azure backup and other applications working without any changes. Thanks for the pointer to the permissions error on the registry key. Thanks for taking the time to let everyone know how the install went for you.

If automatic updates are turned on, the updates should be automatically delivered to you. Install available firmware microcode updates from your device manufacturer. All customers will have to check with their device manufacturer to download and install their device specific hardware update. See the “Additional resources” section for a list of device manufacturer websites. Note: Customers should install the latest Windows operating system security updates from Microsoft to take advantage of available protections.

Antivirus software updates should be installed first. Operating system and firmware updates should follow. This means that all devices that are running Windows operating systems are potentially vulnerable. This includes desktops, laptops, cloud servers, and smartphones. We advise customers who are running these operating systems to seek guidance from those vendors. At the time of publication, we had not received any information to indicate that these vulnerabilities have been used to attack customers.

Starting in January , Microsoft released updates for Windows operating systems and the Internet Explorer and Edge web browsers to help mitigate these vulnerabilities and help to protect customers. We also released updates to secure our cloud services. We continue working closely with industry partners, including chip makers, hardware OEMs, and app vendors, to protect customers against this class of vulnerability. We encourage you to always install the monthly updates to keep your devices up-to-date and secure.

We will update this documentation when new mitigations become available, and we recommend you check back here regularly. Security updates for this vulnerability were released as part of the July monthly update release on July 9, We held back documenting this mitigation publicly until the coordinated industry disclosure on Tuesday, August 6, On May 14, , Intel published information about a new subclass of speculative execution side-channel vulnerabilities known as Microarchitectural Data Sampling and were assigned the following CVEs:.

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KB Windows Server Guidance to protect against speculative execution side-channel vulnerabilities. We recommend that you install all of the latest updates from Windows Update first, before you install any microcode updates. For more information about this issue and recommended actions, see the following Security Advisory:. The article also contains links to the available Intel microcode updates by CPU. These updates are available via the Microsoft Catalog.

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For more information about this vulnerability, affected products, and recommended actions, see the following Security Advisory:. KB lists specific Knowledge Base articles by Windows version. The article contain links to the available Intel microcode updates by CPU. The updates require corresponding firmware microcode and registry updates for functionality. This update is also available through Windows Update. To get the latest Intel microcode updates through Windows Update, customers must have installed Intel microcode on devices running a Windows 10 operating system prior to upgrading to the Windows 10 April Update version The microcode update is also available directly from Catalog if it was not installed on the device prior to upgrading the OS.

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Windows kernel update for CVE This security update resolves several reported vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. To learn more about these vulnerabilities, see Microsoft Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures. Blog: Windows Analytics now helps assess Spectre and Meltdown protections. The following security updates provide additional protections for devices running bit x86 Windows operating systems. Microsoft recommends customers install the update as soon as available.

We continue to work to provide protections for other supported Windows versions but do not have a release schedule at this time. Note Windows 10 monthly security updates are cumulative month over month and will be downloaded and installed automatically from Windows Update.

If you have installed earlier updates, only the new portions will be downloaded and installed on your device. Starting in January , Microsoft released security updates to provide mitigations for devices running the following xbased Windows operating systems. Depending on your role, the following support articles can help you identify and mitigate client and server environments that are affected by the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities.

SCCM guidance : Additional guidance to mitigate speculative execution side-channel vulnerabilities. ADV Guidance to mitigate speculative execution side-channel vulnerabilities. Intel : Security Advisory. ARM : Security Advisory. AMD : Security Advisory. Consumer Guidance : Protecting your device against chip-related security vulnerabilities. Antivirus Guidance : Windows security updates released January 3, , and antivirus software. Update to Disable Mitigation against Spectre, Variant 2 : KB Intel has identified reboot issues with microcode on some older processors.

Surface Guidance : Surface Guidance to protect against speculative execution side-channel vulnerabilities. Verify the status of speculative execution side channel mitigations : Understanding Get-SpeculationControlSettings PowerShell script output. Server Guidance : Windows Server guidance to protect against speculative execution side-channel vulnerabilities.

Virtual Machine Resource Controls. Azure Stack guidance : KB Azure stack guidance to protect against the speculative execution side-channel vulnerabilities. Azure reliability : Azure Reliability Portal. To help address these vulnerabilities, you must update both your hardware and software. Use the following links to check with your device manufacturer for applicable firmware microcode updates. Use the following links to check with your device manufacturer for firmware microcode updates.

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Windows Storage Server NAS equipment can be headless , which means that they are without any monitors, keyboards or mice, and are administered remotely. Such devices are plugged into any existing IP network and the storage capacity is available to all users. Multiple such NAS servers can be clustered to appear as a single device, which allows responsibility for serving clients to be shared in such a way that if one server fails then other servers can take over often termed a failover which also improves fault-tolerance.

Windows Storage Server can also be used to create a Storage Area Network , in which the data is transferred in terms of chunks rather than files, thus providing more granularity to the data that can be transferred. This provides higher performance to database and transaction processing applications. Single instance storage SIS scans storage volumes for duplicate files, and moves the duplicate files to the common SIS store.

The file on the volume is replaced with a link to the file. Windows Storage Server R2 provides an index-based, full-text search based on the indexing engine already built into Windows server.

Windows Storage Server can be promoted to function as a domain controller; however, this edition is not licensed to run directory services. It can be joined to an existing domain as a member server. Windows Small Business Server SBS is a software suite which includes Windows Server and additional technologies aimed at providing a small business with a complete technology solution.

SBS has the following design limitations, mainly affecting Active Directory: [30]. Windows Home Server was announced on January 7, , at the Consumer Electronics Show by Bill Gates and is intended to be a solution for homes with multiple connected PCs to offer file sharing, automated backups, and remote access.

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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. Application: SharedServiceHost. Exception Info: System.

FileNotFoundException at System. String at System. Init System. String, System. FileMode, System. FileAccess, Int32, Boolean, System. FileShare, Int32, System. String, Boolean, Boolean, Boolean at System. FileAccess, System. FileOptions, System. String, Boolean at System.

FileMode at Microsoft. String at Microsoft. Run Microsoft. ITaskDataLink at Microsoft. RunTasks System. HandleWindowsUpdate System. RunInitialConfiguration at System. RunInternal System. ExecutionContext, System. ContextCallback, System. Object, Boolean at System. Run System. CallCallback at System. Fire at System. Faulting application name: SharedServiceHost. Looks like one of the dependency files are missing on your system. 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. Create a server backup just in case I need to roll back to In-place upgrade to Server Standard.

First problem: All of the server essentials services were set to disabled. Turned on what I needed to automatic and rebooted. Hey, would you look at that? Dashboard looked much happier. Only thing I seem to have lost are the server backups from and In place upgrades from prior versions of Windows Server Essentials and even domain migrations are just going to end up causing you a lot of extra work and grief in the long run. Thus, and as Robert Pearman mentions in his article, it only seems to present itself as an issue when doing an in place upgrade from prior versions of Windows Server Essentials to Windows Server Essentials.

Nice find on locating and linking us to his fix for the problem though. Windows Server Essentials , etc. The wizard will then recognize the in place upgrade, and configure it accordingly.

I have been using this on a server of almost a year now with everything working great. I have upgraded my Windows 10 PCs to version and now they show offline and not available in the console.

Doing that will force the connector software to skip joining the client computer to your domain a second time and messing up your user profile on the client computer. Thereby saving you a lot of grief in the long run.

I get the following error:. Can that be language related or build related page redirects me to What version of Windows Server vNext are you using? Received my first update for the experience role and all updated perfect.

Thanks for your continious support Mike. The latest NET Framework 4. Great Guide. First time running through it. Everything went fairly smoothly minus some missing spaces in my copy paste in step 6 preventing service creation until step 8. The system cannot find the file specified.

InvokeEsse ntialsConfigureServiceCommand. You must of missed it while performing step 4 in the manual install instructions. Now there is a new build available: Windows Server Preview Build I could download that and upgrade, but that would be wise, I suppose?

Microsoft is currently releasing new builds of it at a feverous pace about once every week or two. I had a working setup a year or so ago when the article was published, but my recent attempts at this all fail.

I went as far as installing server , updating it as of Jan 1 , installing the role, but not configuring it, then sharing the whole c drive. Went back to my box and wrote a script in cmd to run all the powershells in order, then robocopy the files. Did the services, the firewall rule, and vpn fix.

But I cannot start wssconfiguration from powershell. The solutions there were to ensure the config wizard was not run on the install. Does the installer available free with purchase of another product still work on the most recent server install? Are you running the PowerShell cmdlet from an elevated i. Run as administrator PowerShell prompt? Good luck! Thanks for your reply, Im sure its much more straight forward with the installer, I need to look over your products and either choose the least expensive or see what seems interesting.

If you want to look at it, here is my script that I am running as admin as a notepad file saved as wsee. I have tried it manually too, The error I get running it on a bare stock version of winserver with all the switches is. So its something in the files not allowing wssconfigurationservice to start. I was wondering if it had to do with the latest build versions of winserver or winserver, since this write up and the original source files are just over 2 years old.

A final question on the installer, If I license your least expensive product and use the installer on my dc, but then reimage it say a year down the line, or upgrade to , will your installer still work since its the same physical pc? This could possibly be due to a permissions issue on the following file:.

If you simply re-install on the exact same Windows Server product edition e. Standard or Datacenter , and underlying hardware or VM configuration , then you will be just fine even after in place upgrading to , etc. Perfect, thanks Mike, Im still looking into your products on what may be valuable in a homelab environment, but just to update.

I did get the manual method working, my script actually had two typos in it, one line i robocopyed from z: to z: instead of c: thus not actually copying anything, that was the start menu and if you look closely at the wsssetupcmdlets copy, you will notice that i am copying it to the wrong directory, thus not allowing the setup to run. I have corrected these errors, and all ran well. Thanks again for your pointers. Sorry to make a software dev read through my terrible batch programming.

But hey, it was quick and dirty, and in the end after fixing typos, it did work. Im sure theres a more efficient way of writing it, but I like automation, which is why im still probably going to buy a product to look into the installer. Glad to hear that you found those typos, and correcting then resolved your issue. Nice sleuthing! So hopefully that will just fix me up. Thanks for your support. Thanks again Mike, I plan to format and reinstall serverstandard prior to using your installer just to ensure nothing goes wrong.

Its a Homelab and not production, so I can do that basically whenever I choose lol, but as for the VPN fix, I have already applied both of those. The error I am getting is more similiar to what is described here: Set up Anywhere Access wizard completed with errors, VPN was not configured successfully.

I am going to wait to see what happens when using your installer. Just to update, it seems like everything went well when using your installer, Anywhere Access and VPN have installed and configured successfully. Perhaps Mike, you may want to look into silently installing this package with the WSEE Installer, just to save users that step. Folks will simply need to follow the download link that Microsoft provides and manually install the appropriate version of the Windows ADK on their servers for themselves if they want to enable the client restore feature.

I remember seeing this message when I used it last time, but I thought I could proceed at my own risk. Now it just ends the install. I do not care about any other pre-WSE19 features. Is there a way to only install the WS backups feature? Why not just convert i. Can I use a previous installer version to do the install anyways? It has worked perfectly for me on the server I have reloaded a few times. Hi Mike! I installed the Install WSE Experience on Server successfully and was able to configure everything per your excellent write up.

Please contact your administrator. Other than that, have you by chance disabled TLS 1. If so, then you might want to try temporarily re-enabling TLS 1. One thing I did not work out is whether you have to setup e. Is there a way to run the configuration wizard for the Essentials Experience rather than doing it through the command line? If not, then it is probably worth calling out the need for these steps to be done as part of the preparation steps as, once setup it seems impossible to change some of these settings, at least if the server is the Primary Domain Controller.

Glad to hear that the manual installation went well for you. WSEE sure does work really nice on it though. For more info on why see here.

This is just one of the many things that the WSEE Installer nets you over attempting to do the installation manually. The WSEE Installer will result in a MUCH more proper, complete, secure, and maintainable installation seeing as it does way more than I could ever possibly explain in a succinct list of manual install steps. Got the health warning that an update was available, so I downloaded and ran the updater. It seemed to work okay, but I still have the health warning. Does it still come back again even after doing that?

Thanks for bringing it to my attention. Thanks for looking into it! Have you done the tests? The Microsoft Online Integration Services seem to be a real mess. That being said… I broke down yesterday and set up a 30 day trial for Microsoft Premium , and tried testing out the integration stuff. Sure enough, it always fails with the the above mentioned generic error under both and Microsoft has also implemented something called security defaults in Azure Active Directory , and since enforcing the enabling MFA on all of your user accounts within 14 days is part of this security feature, you will need to disable it as follows:.

My question is how do I fix the issues with Microsoft Cloud Integration Services failing when configuring them? Unfortunately, there are just way too many steps involved in making the online services integration features work properly for me to be able to provide them within the succinct list of manual install steps which are already fairly lengthy and complicated. If I already followed the guide and have WSEE working on Windows , but need to get Office Integration working can I just run the installer, or do I need to remove it and start over?

I would agree but it would be a lot of work to rebuild this server. I ran the install and it appears to have worked.

Office integration is now working. Thank you for the help. Thanks for letting everyone know. Only I had prob with setup, but after I created domain manually, everything went smooth. Is the license somehow connected to a hardware fingerprint? Because the only thing that comes to mind is that I have upgraded my motherboard and cpu in my server since originally installing wse.

Any way to get that fixed up? Yes it is. Registration Key be reset in order to resolve that issue. I took a few days off to celebrate the resurrection of our Lord and Savior with friends and family. Can I deploy N. For this scenario the branch office server have to be a dc?

Please let me know. As mentioned in the main article above, the WSEE Installer is only made available to existing license holders of our software products e.

Thanks Mike, Just wanted to confirm for other interested persons, the installation of WSEE on server standard which had been updated in place from a configured Server Essentials server. The event logs indicated the error, which was the permissions on a registry key. All domain settings, Azure backup and other applications working without any changes. Thanks for the pointer to the permissions error on the registry key.

Thanks for taking the time to let everyone know how the install went for you. Alas, after severe messing around to get VPN access working, the Devices tab no longer shows the Server itself. Is there any way to add the Essentials server back to the Server Device tab? Hi Mike, now that server went into preview Announcing Windows Server —now in preview do you suggest to switch I always like to be as updated as possible or do I have to reinstall when final version is out.

All of your settings, etc. What is your policy on refunds if by chance the installer does not work after purchasing a product for the purpose of downloading the installer?

The thread is a bit long. As stated on our Policy page , we have a no-questions-asked day refund policy on all of our software packages. That being said… Please do be aware that if you request a refund, then the license for your purchased product as well as for the WSEE Installer will be deactivated, and so any installation of the product or of WSEE that has been installed via the WSEE Installer will cease to function once the license has been deactivated.

Thanks Mike! After a bit of troubleshooting and help from everyone here I was able to get it working like a charm. Thanks a million! I do plan on still purchasing remoteapp. Thanks again! As mentioned last month May , thread is getting older however Mike is readily available to support his fine product line WSEE. With WSEE being so easy to work with, can continue working in my comfort level again within a home based domain. Is it normal for users to lose connection and access to files after an update is installed with a reboot?

I manually had to login them back into the connector at each computer. It is quite normal to lose connection installing e. Yes, it periodically checks the validity of the license, and to see if any updates are available for the WSEE bits that were installed. No personal information is sent as per our privacy statement.

Thank you for the response. We have strict firewall policies which will probably result in the connection being blocked. Does that mean we will not be able to use the WSEE installer?

If so, do you recommend a manual install? Hi Mike I bought a new server, and as I see my license is assigned to another server. Which is quite right.

Can I uninstall or delete the old server to free my license, or what? Setup all the Services and the firewall rule. NET folders to copy your list shows , but you mention in a previous post? Checking the event log and it shows that it has two main errors on. Then I mentioned that I forgot to install the five features via powershell on the target server first. After doing that, the second run was successsful. Take a look at the adprep output and the group membership of the local Administrator Upgrade went fine and Essentials Dashboard went away.

Somehow expected…. After that I have had the Dashboard back again and I have done some basic tests server backup Currently everything looks good, but for sure I will do some additional testing with clients and so on….

Glad to hear that your in-place upgrade to with WSEE manually installed worked out well. Thanks for sharing your experience with everyone. Before I attempt a rollback and test I wanted to check with this community to see if others are having the same problem or not.

Thanks, Joe. If you sort the folder by date modified, then all of the most recent log files will appear at the top, making it easier for you to locate the more relevant ones to look through. Thanks for the reply. The error has been intermittent since the update. The Health Assessment appears to run every 30 minutes. The error will sometimes clear itself but then may return with the next assessment.

My WSEE was installed many many months ago using the installer. Thanks again Mike! While you investigate I think I will try reversing the update on the non-critical server and let you know.

Whenever the health of the server is evaluated, a configuration file for the online services is automatically downloaded to the following location on the server:. Hopefully someone reports it to Microsoft and they correct the issue bug soon. I would expect the error to remain constant if the config file is corrupt.

And again and at least in my case across both of my servers, the error did not ever present itself on the dashboard prior to the update. If that makes sense. And so the Bing. Glad to do it…. Mike, I have now posted this problem on several forums including the Microsoft. Do you have a link to where you posted it on the Microsoft. Unfortunately, if Microsoft is monitoring or participating in that forum they are staying silent on the matter.

FYI, I have now corrected this particular issue in the latest Version Trying to install the server connector on a clean install of windows 10 21H1. Can anyone report success using the connector from windows 10 21H1? And you are done. Every time you install a feature update for Windows 10, the connection between the server and the clients gets broken. I had blamed this on being a new version of windows, but after looking at logs I can see that it really boils down to a certificate on the server for https that is no longer valid, somehow… Going through the WSE RemoteAccess repair wizard seems to not work at all, despite many attempts.

The foo. Installer tells me, that my license is used on another server … Best regards. I read in the article that Server performs much better than which is great news because it has always been sluggish.

But I am torn between or I mainly use this for backing up clients. Any thoughts from anyone on what you would do? Windows Server is more secure offering both TLS 1. Thanks for the quick reply and advice. I will go with Server I am thinking of keeping it and let it update once a month and see if any of the Essentials files were updated. Thanks for figuring all this out.

Am on with Mikes experience role installed now for couple of weeks. All very smoothly without ANY issues came form , highly recommended. I went with and all is working great. I do have one odd issue. I am not sure if you are using it for client backups but when I set mine up I have an item called Local Disk in my Select which items to back up.

I do have Halo series I bought from the Microsoft Store but have no idea why it sees some of these folders under an item called Local Disk.

It is odd. Hi Mike, I had an Essentials and downgraded it to a standard server. Then I upgraded the server standard to a inplace. After I have removed it without restarting the wizard runs through but does not recognize the existing domain.

The server is DC with me. I know that thing like the back of my hand but it was missing!! Thank you so much for the prompt reply Mike! Maybe they should offer it as a paid add-on, folks like me would pony-up! What is my least expensive option?? Perhaps allow people to donate to a charity of your choosing, then receive the password?

I see now you recommend against doing this WSEE installation manually. For details see our Pricing page.

Thx Mike! Last question. Specifically I have some saved PC backups of pre-rebuild and pre-Win11 upgrades that I would ideally like to keep a while longer. Can you use Server Essentials in place of Server Essentials to extract the required files, reg keys, etc from?

If not, then I strongly suggest that you go that route in order to ensure success. I did start out with a clean Standard standalone installation, as advised. In doing so, I got the password for the MediaAdmin service from the old AD, while the service is configured to use the password from the new AD which is now gone.

I wonder if you could simply delete the existing MediaAdmin and ServerAdmin managed service accounts and then just recreate them??? FYI, I found this text in some of the Microsoft documentation explaining what Essentials does on the server in regard to those accounts….

The MediaAdmin account is added as a member of the Administrators group. Error trying to reset service account password. KurtH comment. Given your deep knowledge of Essentials you might know this: I have Windows Server with essentials experience installed but not the Remote Desktop Services role.

This allows me to change the RD gateway https port number from to something else in my case, necessary because is already going to another LAN destination from my router. But now when I want to connect to a host on the LAN via Essentials Remote Web Access, it does not write the port number as a suffix to the gatewayhostname within the. I wonder if there is some registry setting to update the gatewayhostname in the generated. As it stands it is necessary to manually change.

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