To learn how to install and configure Windows Server Essentials Experience, here is a complete guide.

With Windows Server Essentials Experience, you can have features like PC backup and Remote Web Access without the limitations imposed by Windows Server Essentials. Here is how you install Windows Server Essentials Experience on your Windows Server. Go through the steps described below and start using Windows Server Essentials on your Windows Server.

Step-by-Step Installation, Configuration, and How-to Use of Windows Server Essentials

install and configure Windows Server Essentials Experience



It's an inexpensive version of Windows Server that enables small businesses to provide such features as file sharing, remote access, and data backup. You can enable features which are normally limited using the Essentials Experience role with Windows Server 2016, 2019, or 2022. His duties span from System health monitoring to User and group management including all of them that integrate with Microsoft Online Services correctly. For activation purpose for Windows Server 2022 essentials, a product key for windows server 2022 standard would be used.

Install Windows Server Essentials for Experience


Windows Server Essentials Experience Role and Role features are installed using the Window Server Manager. The steps ahead will walk you through it.


First step run the Server Manager once login as administrator in Windows server.


Select Manage option > select Add Roles and Features.


As soon as it opens to the Add Roles and Features Wizard, click Next


Then select between Role based or Feature based installation,


Following choosing server next.


Once prompted to Server roles, check and enable "Windows Server Essentials Experience.


Add Features option will appear in the pop-up window.


After redirecting to the Features tab, click Next.


On the next page, after reading about Windows Server Essentials, shown on a new tab click Next.


Then select on the destination server automatically restart, confirm by clicking on "Yes", and later click "Install" shown on the Confirmation page.


That may take a while, so be patient. After the installation, it may appear as though nothing happened - just close the Add roles and features wizard and move on with Windows Server Essentials Configuration.


It's now up to us to install the role after the installation and installation-related feature are complete. If done correctly, after finishing an installation icon is visible with yellow color alongside a warning, the 'Manage' option starts visible where clicking that opens 'Manage' menu options or head to select the options: Configure Windows Server Essentials.


A dialog to configure Windows Server Essentials will pop out when you click the link and it will start scanning your system settings.


You are ready to go to the next step, but before doing so, we recommend clicking the link provided to review the Windows Server Essentials Deployment guide.


Click Next after you enter the name of your business and the internal domain.


After having identified yourself as an administrator and having changed your password, click the Configure button.


The progress bar will appear once you have moved to the Result tab. Since it is configuring a server according to Windows Server Essentials, this process will take some time to complete. Your server will be restarted after this is done.

Running Windows Server Essentials


After rebooting, you will be getting black screens that turn on for less than a couple of seconds too. Now log in using the password we created for the administrator's account. The Windows Server Manager automatically opens once you log on but you need to create a trusted network connection first. If any confirmation wizard pops up configuration will show as Complete. Click the "Register with Microsoft cloud services" link, then follow the on-screen instructions to connect Microsoft 365.


From here, you can open the Windows Server Essentials Dashboard through the Start Menu by searching. The Windows Server Essentials Dashboard has a number of tabs that you can open to see all the different views. You can look under the Devices tab and it will show you all network computers, storage such as volumes and hard drives under the Storage tab, applications including ones you've added under the Application tab.


These steps will hopefully help you understand the installation and configuration of the Windows Server Essentials Experience.




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