Would you like to know how to get Windows Home Server to auto-login? If so, Sean Daniel explains to us how to get this setup on your server by using the tools AutoLogin from sysinternals and Microsoft’s own SRVANY.EXE. This is a great read if you have some applications that you need to run as […]
WireValley has a users Windows Home Server build list, this one powering WHS 2011 by a AMD Athlon 2 and 8GB of memory in a Thermaltake V3 Black Edition case. Another users build list which you can find here.
SmartNAS is a desktop NAS product from Newtech for the small office running Windows Home Server 2011. Up to 6 hard drives can be installed within the SmartNAS which is powered by a Atom dual-core processor and 4GB of memory. Complete with 1Gb LAN interface, 2x USB 3.0 ports and 2x USB 2.0 ports. Also […]
IBM have announced that after 5 years they have been able to reduce the number of atoms required to create a bit of data from about one million to 12. This breakthrough will allow hard drive manufactures to produce much bigger capacity hard drives 100 to 150TB compared with 1TB Today, hard drives use ferromagnetic […]
StableBit DrivePool have released another update for its Drive Extender type add-in for WHS 2011 users. Build 5449 has the following changes: Fixed installation issue, where if the previous M4 install failed in the middle, future installs would not work. [D] Fixed directory enumeration issue that was causing the WHS client backup engine to report […]
Microsoft have announced that Windows 8 will feature a newly engineered file system by the name of ReFS in it’s server edition of the product. ReFS, which stands for Resilient File System will be introduced only as part of Windows Server 8 to start with and so naturally will affect users of the next version […]
The WHS Drobo Status add-in has just been updated to beta 2. This plugin allows you to view how much space you have available on your Drobo from within WHS 2011 dashboard as well as the status of the drives. Beta 2 includes the following changes: Added support for multiple Drobos Now include the Drobo […]
Ric Chapman over at Technibble.com tells us how we can manage our home office with Windows Home Server 2011. The article starts out be asking why WHS 2011? and then goes through the setting up process of Microsoft’s latest Home Server offering. Backups, Add-Ins, remote access and alerts & notifications are also taken a look […]
The DE type replacement add-in StableBit DrivePool has had another update for WHS 2011 users. Build 5421 has the following changes: [D] Fixed simple rename crash (E.g. when renaming from OS X). [D] Disk buffer fixes. Attempted to fix folder re-share on migration (unable to reproduce). [D] = Driver was modified (reboot required on […]
Beta 2 of the Tomcat release of Drive Bender has just been released. Release v1.2.3.5 beta (2012-01-14) has the following changes: Bug fix: The pool could lockup under certain conditions (issue is caused by the named (alternate) stream support previously introduced, as a result this has been removed for the time being). Bug fix: BSOD […]
