That defeats the need to have Avast! actually fix the problem. Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials installs with a locked-down version of IE. Avast! needs to fix the Small Office Administrator program to work with IE on the Server. Even the latest version of SOA (1.3.3.42) doesn’t work with the Server IE.

However from a client machine, the SOA on the Server works fine, using the client’s IE.