Snorf

Thanks again for the reply. To answer your questions: My ISP is Telus and I am on their home 50 down 10 up plan but they block port 80 and 443 and a few others. The RWA auto configuration fails in 2012R2E, i will try the port forwarding on the Actiontec T1200H modem/router but I think they block the ports at the ISP level so nothing comes through to my router so the auto configuration will most likely never work with the free domain and dns from microsoft built into 2012R2E, which is a downer. I will try port forwarding 8080 to 80 and 8443 to 443 and see if I can access the server from the www. Would a dyndns help me? I probably wont get to try all your suggestions until the weekend. I will report back what happens. Snorf

Hey thanks for the reply. I will check it out. I have 2 other issues though now: 1. I want to copy all my files from WHSv1 to 2012R2E and I can't connect to R2E with WHSv1 so no idea other than copy all to usb drives and then copy again. R2E can't connect to WHSv1 either........ 2. My ISP blocks Port 80 and 443 unless I go on a business plan and I really wanted RWA to work. Any suggestions now on the above 2 new problems would be a great help. Thanks in advance! Snorf

I am firing up a new server WS2012R2E (retiring WHSv1), and I was wondering what everyone else is doing to back up the main boot drive for the server. My configuration will be an SSD for the main boot drive and then pooled drives with DrivePool. I would like to be able to have some sort of backup/image or something backing up the WS2012R2E installation, so if and when the boot drive fails I just stick in a new one and put the image or whatever on and I am good to go instead of having to do a complete re-install and set up all the users and vpn and everything again. Any and all comments appreciated. I did try the search function but did not find much (probably my fault), so links to topics where this has been already discussed would be appreciated as well. Thanks! Snorf