Archive for July 7th, 2008

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PP1 Drive Extender Balancing Algorithms used for Disk Balancing

Chris Gray, lead developer for Windows Home Server has published a brief description of the balancing algorithms used for disk balancing in Home Servers PP1 Drive Extender. For the geek’s amongst us Chris takes us through auto-migration, duplication and balancing. All the details.

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Getting HP Updates to Work with PP1

After installing Power Pack 1 (PP1) on the HP MediaSmart Server you may notice that you can no longer get the HP updates. Hewlett Packard are releasing a new version of their update once the final version of PP1 is released. In the meantime one way of still getting the updates is to browse the [...]

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How to Duplicate WHS Backups and Remove the Caution Screen

How to Duplicate WHS Backups and Remove the Caution Screen

Daves Computer Tips Newsletter has a great article on how backups work on Windows Home Server and what makes the WHS backup so special. Dave also shows us how to duplicate the computer backup files by using a registry hack on the Home Server and how to remove the caution screen when logging on to [...]

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Add-In: Windows Home Server Disk Management 1.0.8.6

Add-In: Windows Home Server Disk Management 1.0.8.6

Sam Wood has updated his add-in, Windows Home Server Disk Management to version 1.0.8.6 which fixes a crash if removing the last internal drive bay and external drive bays still remain. The user is now prompted to remove external drive bays first. This Add-In provides more detail about your server’s storage status than what the [...]