Rik Hepworth reminded me that if you want to use your Xbox 360 to watch video streamed from your Windows Home Server make sure that the Guest account is enabled on the server. Although streaming is turned on by default enabling the guest account and disallowing it’s access to everything except the folders you want […]
G Data Internet Security for Home Server protects both version 1 of Windows Home Server and WHS 2011 and up to 5 connected PCs. Protection is controlled centrally on the home server and is completely transparent on the PCs connected to it. The G Data Internet Security for Home Server includes a AntiVirus, Firewall, AntiSpam […]
We explained about Windows 8’s feature called Storage Spaces in our article the other day entitled Drive Extender Reincarnated in Windows 8? For those of you who haven’t read the original article yet I recommend you head over to MSDN to read it. In the meantime the blogosphere have given there opinion on Storage Spaces […]
The latest edition of the BYOB podcast is up and this week its all about Data Recovery, Encryption and Hard Drives: …we have the pleasure of being joined by Scott Moulton owner/founder of myharddrivedied.com. We had a blast and learned an incredible amount about data recovery, hard drives, SSDs, and encryption…Get comfortable as this 2:10 […]
Blog groovyPost takes us back to basics and explains how to add a Windows 7 client PC to version 1 of Windows Home Server. From where to download the connector software from to the completed installation this guide takes us through the entire setup process for connecting a Windows 7 PC to WHS (v1). You […]
PC Doc on his blog "The Doc’s World" has an article on using Air Video to stream content from your Home server. In his article the PC Doc explains how to setup the application on a iPhone, iPad or iTouch and explains how to install and setup the software on Windows Home Server too. Air […]
Covecube the makers of DrivePool have a great discussion in their forums on Microsoft’s pooling solution in Windows 8, Storage Spaces vs DrivePool. Alex from DrivePool posted the following remarks: I knew about storage spaces in Win 8 for a while, but Microsoft’s blog post explained a lot. Obviously, this is a very bad […]
On their Building Windows 8 blog Microsoft’s Steven Sinofsky and Rajeev Nagar, a group program manager on the Storage and File System team revealed details of Storage Spaces a feature in Windows 8 which seems like Drive Extender (DE) implemented in a different way or reincarnated so to speak. Many of us have been using […]
The Serviio for Windows Home Server add-in has just had an update The add-in which enables you to adjust the settings for the Serviio UPnP/DLNA media server from within the dashboard/console is now at version 0.6.1.0: Okay, back to beta here. This is a long-in-coming release for the new Serviio 0.6.x platform that supports streaming […]
The weeks storage news and CES 2012 preview is up in episode 168 of The Home Server Show podcast with Dave, Jim and John. All this plus the weeks Home Server news which you can find here.
