Thanks, that's what I thought. Is the learning curve for Standard much more difficult than for Essentials? Essentials will serve my needs, and I am fairly tech savvy, but to say I understand Windows Server would be a gross understatement. Essentials sounds like it's more suited to my qualifications, but I would use Standard, if I thought I could make it work. Thoughts?
Yes, if the hashes don't match you have a corrupt download. You should be able to find a torrent easily for this, then either rename your .iso so it matches the .iso from the torrent, or tell your client to use your .iso as the download target ("relocate" in uTorrent). When you then re-check the torrent it will verify the .iso and it should be almost complete, with only the parts left to download that are corrupt, no need to download the entire thing all over again. You can also add the direct link from the first post as a web seed in your torrent client so that it can also download the missing parts straight from the HTTP download. Edit: This will work because the trial .iso available from MS is exactly the same as the MSDN .iso, hashes MD5 05823ec5bd2cb2ea4d9322a786632718 / SHA1 74764B29F6C5BAFCB680D000F43E138C38A9A414. Just make sure the torrent lists the correct hash for the .iso and you'll be fine.
there are no torrents available to the best of my knowledge... I know how to recover using torrent but problem is I never found a torrent.. probably because its a free download... Anyway couldn't wait much so downloaded it again -- This time it boots well a piece of advice for others downloading - don't use MS Java client download manager to download, use the links provided in this page and download using getright or other reliable DM....
If you had looked closely, you would have seen these are to create 'en_client_restore_disc_windows_small_business_server_2011_essentials_x86_x64_cd_664348.iso' maybe i am stupid, but haven't seen this posted anywhere, not in whs2011 topic, not in sbs2011 topic
Yes,you are correct, the naming protocol for windows sucks. Stupid you are not FreeStyler that is for sure. Thanks again to you and Sebus for these Deltas they are a valuable resource to me and others.
If someone have problems with installing this versions on smaller hard disks below 160GB, just use oryginal installer from Windows Server 2008 R2 (Checked on Essentials edition)