[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Guang Wu from Small Business Server Sustained Engineering]
Windows 8 Consumer Preview has been released, we encourage customer testing the new client with SBS 2011 Essentials, SBS 2011 Standard, SBS 2008 and Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials. If you experience any issues, please discuss with the community , or file a bug on the connect site . Note this is for test purpose only . Installing beta products in a production environment is not recommended or fully supported.
For known issues for SBS 2011 Essentials and Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials, Please see this Wiki .
Below are the known issues and workaround when connecting Windows 8 Consumer Preview (CP) to SBS 2011 standard and SBS 2008:
When trying to connect win8 CP to SBS 2011 standard via http://connect , the Connect Computer Wizard can be opened successfully. However a warning message will be displayed when verifying the computer requirements. Screenshot shows as blow:
You can hit “Next” and continue connecting the computer, it should finish all the tasks and complete successfully.
When trying to connect Win8 CP to SBS2008 server via http://connect , the following page will be displayed, the wizard cannot continue :
After you install .Net 3.5 to the win8 client and enable it, the wizard will still fail due the Windows SKU checking.
Workaround:
After connect Win8 CP to SBS2011 Standard or SBS2008, Win8 client cannot get the updates via WSUS from the server side, and the server cannot get the update status from win8 client via WSUS either.
Workaround:
You can get the Win8 client updates from Windows Update:
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