Server Essentials – techspeeder https://techspeeder.com Troubleshooting Helps and Tips for the Geek Wed, 09 Nov 2016 00:04:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 54126538 Server Essentials 2012 & 2016 Can’t Email Health Reports https://techspeeder.com/2016/11/08/server-essentials-2012-2016-cant-email-health-reports/ https://techspeeder.com/2016/11/08/server-essentials-2012-2016-cant-email-health-reports/#comments Tue, 08 Nov 2016 23:55:58 +0000 http://techspeeder.com/?p=1748 This morning I noticed I was missing a bunch of the health reports from my servers that were running Server Essentials 2012 or 2016.

I opened the Dashboard on one of the servers and found these errors. . . . Cannot Send Mail and Windows Server Essentials Management Service is not running. 

I went into Services, like the error message suggested, but the Windows Server Essential Management Service was still running.

Server Essentials Unable to Email Health Report

I did a little digging and I found that apparently there is a bug in the Server Essentials software and when Daylight Savings Time occurs the server no longer can email health reports. 

Here is how to (workaround) fix the issue. This works for servers running Server Essentials 2012 and 2016.

Step One: Make sure the Essentials Dashboard is closed.

Step Two:  Open Services and find the Windows Server Essentials Provider Registry Service. Restart this service.Restart Windows Server Essentials Provider Service

Restarting the Windows Server Essentials Provider Registry Service restarts multiple services including the WSE Email Service and the WSE Management Service. 

Go back into your Essentials Dashboard and try emailing yourself a report. In my case, I was able to receive reports after the WSE Provider Registry Service was restarted.

I hope this helped. This was posted by techspeeder

]]> https://techspeeder.com/2016/11/08/server-essentials-2012-2016-cant-email-health-reports/feed/ 5 1748 Server 2016 Anywhere Access Shows IIS instead of Login Page https://techspeeder.com/2016/10/28/server-2016-anywhere-access-shows-iis-instead-of-login-page/ https://techspeeder.com/2016/10/28/server-2016-anywhere-access-shows-iis-instead-of-login-page/#comments Fri, 28 Oct 2016 22:52:41 +0000 http://techspeeder.com/?p=1730 After installing two Server 2016 Essentials servers this week, I found Anywhere Access on both servers didn’t work properly. When I browsed to the Remote Web Access URL (mycompany.remotewebaccess.com) , I was always greeted with the Internet Information Services (IIS) page.Internet Information Services (IIS) I figured I may have setup something wrong, so I double-checked my settings but everything was setup correctly.

I then went to mycompany.remotewebaccess.com/remote and the site then came up fine. 

This is the workaround I found to fix this issue.  

Step One: Open Internet Information Services (IIS)

Step Two: Go to Sites > Default Web Site > HTTP Redirect

Step Three: Check the box Redirect requests to this destination: “Enter company URL with /remote at the end. HTTP Redirect IIS

Check the box “Only redirect requests to content in this directory (not subdirectories)”

Step Four: Click Apply    You should be set now. If this doesn’t work for you, restart the Default Web Site.

I found this forum thread on TechNet with other experiencing the same issues. It wouldn’t be a bad idea to comment on that thread. That will help bring it to Microsoft’s attention. I believe this is a bug with Server 2016. Server 2012 and 2012R2, this worked perfectly without having to do this HTTP Redirect.   I will keep you posted if I learn more.

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