Hi, I wrote this up for someone with SRV 2K8R2. I've no idea if it will work with 2012 but you can try it. I used an ISO to install SRV 2K8 R2 in VmWare Workstation. It probably took about 1hr or so. Before I installed it I told it to auto log in. You also need to increase the RAM from the default 1GB to 2GB as it's a 64Bit product and this is it's minimum requirement. I suppose it might run with 1GB but slowly. You'll see VMWorkstation status bar change from installing to just press ctrl g to direct input to this VM. It will take about 1hr to install the VM, depending on your host machines spec. I assumed I was on the Desktop and did the following. 1. WinKey M, to make sure on desktop. 2. WinKey to open start. 3. Type CMD. 4. Hit apps key. 5. Hit A for run as admin. 6 Wait a second or so then hit alt Y to confirm run as admin. 7. Type Net start audiosrv then press return to start the audio service. How I confirmed this was working was opened the cmd again in admin mode, just so I could hear the audio alert that comes with the UAC prompt. Once everything was making noise I hit the start menu and typed services, found the Windows Audio service and set it to automatic. So there would be audio there each time it logged in. Hope this helps. Regards, Barry. Barry Toner "To leave the world a bit better; to know that one life has breathed easier because of you. This is to have succeeded" ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Marvin Hunkin Sent: 27 July 2015 12:17 To: blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] windows server 2012 Hi. Yes, I did try google, and did find some thing about the accessible and the gui on a few forums posts, on the oracle site. Nothing has been improved in a few years. Okay, google and found the 180 day evaluation on tech net on the Microsoft site. And actually found it on the dream spark site, http://www.dreamspark.com as a current it student. And downloaded the 32 bit version, instead of the 64 bit version. Marvin. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins