Recent content by samsquared2

I left SSD1 as the C: drive and did not make the rest of it part of the pool, then used SSD2 as storage pool ClientBackup. Backups are running successfully and I've implemented SMTP2GO for emails. For the 1TB USB drive, I cleaned it, converted it to GPT, added it as a physical disk, then...

Good news to report. I ran Crucial Storage Executive which reported both drives as healthy so I then did a Sanitize on SSD2. It now appears in Diskpart and in PowerShell Get-Disk and Get-PhysicalDisk as the correct size (see below). Disk management shows the drive as unknown, 931.51GB, not...

I disconnected SSD2, rebooted, and had to change SATA settings again. Replaced CMOS battery (it was less than half power) and now AHCI persists with only SSD1 active. Used new cable and connected SSD2 to SATA1 (was DVD drive). Still AHCI but SSD2 not detected. Only Disk0 exists in diskpart...

Well, I am making progress. WSE is installed on SSD1 (SSD2 not connected) with 812GB unallocated, Windows updates have been applied, the dashboard looks fine. However: 1. When the install rebooted (install USB removed), I got an error about date/time and it suggested that I enter setup. When...

I think I need to do something to SSD1 before continuing the install. I disconnected SSD2 but when the install gets to the point of selecting a disk, the options are "Drive 0 Partition 1: System Reserved" and "Driven 0 Partition 2", which has a size of 117.2GB. If I remove that and try to...

The first install went to SSD1 (SATA 0) and because it did not ask where to place the install, I think that I should put SSD2 on SATA 0 to keep that from happening again. What do you think?

I think I need to redo the install from scratch. Even though the OS appears to be fine and is receiving Windows updates: 1. The install did not ask me where to place the OS or what size the partition size should be. 2. The Windows Server Essentials Email service is disabled which is the state...

Once again, I need to re-install WSE 2016. I have the OS installed in a 120GB partition using the original drives (no reformatting, drive wiping, etc. from the previous setup), but don't know how to proceed from here. I have 2 SSDs attached now: SSD1 - 1TB Disk 0 which currently contains the...

Thanks for your help. I used option 2 and selected 'Message' but now I want to have that be the body of the email in the SendMessage. Using -Body $msg fails with invalid argument and -Body [string]$msg yields useless gibberish. What is the correct format for the SendMessage?

I am trying to extract event log details for eventid 262 in the Microsoft-Windows-ServerEssentials/Admin event log which is under Applications and Services Logs. I've opened a Powershell session as administrator but when I run this: Get-WinEvent -LogName...

After making the DNS changes (adding 3 CNAME records, not TXT or SPF), the email service still does not start but I can now send emails via SMTP2GO. I can provide the event log information for the service failure but I don't see the point of doing that because email works. I disabled the email...

Step C1 fails with the same event log error as before. Step D1 was successful. Step D2 fails with this: Send-MailMessage : Mailbox unavailable. The server response was: From header sender domain not verified (samcox.org) At line:1 char:1 + Send-MailMessage -From "sam@samcox.org" -To...

I'll try Option A. It looks like smtp2go has a free plan without time limits so let's use that.

hMailServer is no longer supported and the last release was in 2021. Also, it requires .Net 2.0 to install which I'd rather not do. There must be some other way to accomplish emailing from Windows Server Essentials 2016

I installed the IIS SMTP Server feature (step 2) but did not do the following because I'll be using a gmail account: - Right‑click SMTP Virtual Server → Properties → Delivery tab → Outbound Security / Outbound Connections — set authentication/outbound if you need to relay via your ISP or smart...