Archive for October 22nd, 2007

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ATT, Comcast, Time Warner – Uploads and Downloads to Time Out Automatically

I got a letter today from one of our readers in the States, now if you are a heavy user of RDP and FTP this could affect you. Over to Don: I would like to inform that anyone who is using ATT or Comcast in some areas are going to run into problems with WHS. [...]

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French Home Automation Webcast

Microsoft enthusiast and evangelist Benjamin Gauthey has posted a two minute Webcast in French showing a D-Link IP camera being remotely controlled via the web sites pane within the remote management interface of Windows Home Server. Available from here. English translation by Google.

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Tick, Tock … What’s Up with the WHS Clock? – Time Synch Problems

Tick, Tock … What’s Up with the WHS Clock? – Time Synch Problems

One thing that surprised me when I was installing Windows Home Server was the fact that it didn’t ask me for a time zone.  Sure enough, when it finished booting up after the install the time was 2 hours off for me.  WHS defaults to GMT -8, which is great if you live in California, [...]

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Backup Windows Home Server via FTP

Backup Windows Home Server via FTP

Remote or off-site backups are a great solution for those who wish to protect their WHS files from fire, flood or theft. This adds a great layer of redundancy in case of catastrophic loss. For WHS there are a few remote or on-line backup options out there (iDrive-E, Mozy, Carbonite) and some even offer a [...]

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avast! AntiVirus WHS Edition – New Beta

For those of you beta testing avast! WHS Edition, we have some good news if one of your client machines is a Vista-based laptop.Due to the way Vista uses profiles within the Windows firewall, the service within Avast! does not communicate with the server correctly. This will be fixed in beta 3 which will be [...]