Windows 10 connector for Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials

Question

_{Thursday, March 9, 2017 6:25 PM}

Hello,

I have an issue to connect my Windows 10 computer to my Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials server, I want to join my domain. I have found that I need to manually install the Windows 10 connector but I can't find it anywhere.

The connector isn't on your connector's page (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40285)

Where can I find it or is there an other way to connect my computer to my server ?

Regards,

All replies (9)

_{Thursday, March 9, 2017 7:54 PM | 1 vote}

Hi,

What happens if you open your browser and put http://server-name/connect in the address bar and press enter?

Larry Struckmeyer [MVP]-- --If your question is answered please mark the response as the answer so that others can benefit.

_{Friday, March 10, 2017 8:18 AM}

Hi, 

If I do that, I can download a connector but I think it is incompatible or defective for Windows 10. If I try to install it after the download, I have the error : "An unexpected error has occured, to solve this problem, contact your admin".

I did exactly the same with Windows 8.1 and it worked.

_{Monday, March 13, 2017 10:20 AM}

No other solution ?

_{Tuesday, March 14, 2017 1:38 PM}

Solved. I made all updates on the computer and on the server. It works.

_{Tuesday, March 14, 2017 1:47 PM}

Guess I should have asked.  Thanks for sharing.  This should help some others who access this thread.

Larry Struckmeyer [MVP]-- --If your question is answered please mark the response as the answer so that others can benefit.

_{Wednesday, January 10, 2018 2:23 AM}

I struck this error when trying to connect a W10 Pro machine to a Server 2012 Essentials server.

The solution was to create a local admin account, login to it, delete the user associated with Azure AD (when I installed W10, I created a user account using my organisation details), connect to the http://server-name/connect and run the connector package.

_{Monday, January 29, 2018 3:12 AM}

Would the solution be the same for Server 2012 R2 Datacenter?

_{Monday, January 29, 2018 10:52 AM}

Possibly - depends on the exact issue you are facing.

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_{Thursday, June 21, 2018 12:39 AM}

With regards to this problem, please make sure you have manually set the DNS IP in the  network connection setting tab before running the Essentials connection wizard,

Kind regards Tony,