Windows Server 2012 Essentials

• Small organizations want to focus on their core business, not on managing an IT infrastructure. Windows Server 2012 Essentials can help to minimize the time, effort, and money that you spend on IT.
• Windows Server 2012 Essentials helps to provide you and your employees highly secure access to your company’s data and applications so that you can be productive—even when you’re not in the office—and offers you the flexibility to make technology decisions based on your individual business needs..
  

• The server’s intuitive user experience and powerful data protection features, such as full client PC backup, can simplify your life and help you focus on your core business.
• The new Storage Spaces feature allows you to aggregate the physical storage capacity of disparate hard drives, dynamically add hard drives, and create data volumes with specified levels of resilience.
• Windows Server 2012 Essentials can perform complete system backups and bare-metal restores of the server and the client computers that are connected to the network—now with support for volumes larger than 2 terabytes.
• New with Windows Server 2012 Essentials, Windows Azure Online Backup can be used to protect files and folders in a cloud-based storage service that is managed by Microsoft.
• Windows Server 2012 Essentials also centrally manages and configures the new File History feature of Windows 8 clients, helping users to recover from files that are accidently deleted or overwritten without requiring administrator assistance.
  

• Empower your remote workforce with the freedom to work where and when they choose with an Internet connection and web browser. The Remote Web Access feature provides a stream-lined, touch-friendly browser experience for accessing applications and data from virtually anywhere you have an Internet connection and by using almost any device.
• Windows Server 2012 Essentials also provides an updated Windows Phone app and a new modern app for Windows 8 clients, allowing users to intuitively connect to, search across, and access files and folders on the server.
• Windows Server 2012 Essentials turns setting up virtual private networking (VPN) into a painless wizard-driven process of just a few clicks, and simplifies the management of VPN access for users.
  

• Windows Server 2012 Essentials monitors its own health status and the status of client computers running Windows 7, Windows 8, and Mac OS X version 10.5 and above.
• Health status notifies you of potential issues related to computer backups, server storage, low disk space, and more.
• These alerts, and the prescriptive guidance they include, allow you to respond to and correct issues proactively—before they become problems that impact productivity.