Oh the HDD need to be blank for the MediaSmart Server to boot from the USB drive Wait 10 minutes and you should hear the HDD should be busyĪlthough the partition was create to the correct size per the unattended file, I would have expected the whole setup to be unattended, rather than having to follow setup (step6), maybe I did something wrong.Insert USB drive into rear bottom USB port and power-on.create part pri (this creates a new primary partition)ģ.Copy content from ISO to USB Flash DriveĤ.Create cfg.ini in root of the Flash Drive.clean (WARNING: this will erase the whole thumb-drive).list disk (remember the disk number for they key, we’ll call this X).Insert your USB thumb-drive into your Windows 7 machine.Small Businesses for On-Premise File/Print ServerĪdditional storage and Client Backup for Small Business (Probably already running SBS2011 Standard or Premium with On-Premise Exchange, SharePoint, Lync Server)Ģ.Create Bootable USB Flash Drive (you will need an 8GB Flash drive) Off-Premise Exchange, SharePoint, Lync Server SupportĬlient are made member of the Active Directory upon connection to server On-Premise Exchange, SharePoint, Lync Server Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 EssentialsĮnhanced support with Silverlight Enabled Media Player The headless installs are different from a standard OS install or scripted unattended as the screen can be viewed from another machine over the network. Windows Home Server 2011 supports headless server installs so the sister server products SBS 2011 Essentials and WSS2008 R2 Essential as they share the same code base. it has no video output) so installing most OS ‘s are somewhat difficult without seeing the screen, Although it is possible to mod the unit to add it. This is basically a headless server with just HDD’s, (i.e. It shipped with Windows Home Server (version 1.0) at the time, however recently I have had some issues with it crashing plus I thought now would be a good time to look at WHS2011 and SBS2011 Essentials. I purchased HP MediaSmart Server quite sometime ago and have been using it for client backups and general storage. This first blog post, is a bit off topic, but UC will be the general topic of things. Well this is the first post of my new blog, so let me wish you a welcome, I am still playing about with the themes and formatting.

Windows home server 2011 cfg.ini