Author Archive for Philip Churchill

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Which RAID Level for WHS2011

"Choosing the Right RAID Level for Your NAS Box" is the title of an article on PCWorld.com which is the ideal read for those of you thinking of using RAID with WHS2011. The article looks at the different RAID levels, starting with JBOB and finishing with RAID 5 and explaining which is best for different […]

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Windows Phone Add-in for WHS 2011

Windows guru Paul Thurrott has announced on Twitter that Microsoft announced to him that a Windows Phone integration add-in for WHS 2011, SBS 2011 Essentials and Storage Server 2011 Essentials would be available in 3-4 weeks time. Great news for Windows Phone users! Just shortly after, Paul also tweeted that Windows Home Server hardware would […]

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BYOB Podcast 43

Episode 43 of the BYOB podcast is available  with lots of information about Windows Home Server with guest Ed Ramirez. And if you weren’t sure, BYOB stands for Build Your Own Box and this podcast is all about everything related to building PC’s, servers, HTPC’s, gaming rigs, and anything else they can get their hands […]

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Storage Management Options for WHS 2011

WHS2011 gives you plenty of storage management options. For example you may want to give each hard drive a separate drive letter or setup a RAID array for data duplication plus of course there are many more options. Paul Carvajal from MediaSmartServer.net takes us through his journey from WHS V1 to WHS 2011, along the […]

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Time Machine Script to Backup Mac to WHS2011

One of our readers here at MSWHS.com has come up with a automated configuration script to allow a samba share to be used with Time Machine. So if you are backing up your Mac to WHS2011 using Time Machine, then instead of going through these 7 steps to get it up and running, you can […]

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The Home Server Show Podcast Episode 135

Episode 135 of The Home Server Show podcast is available with the weeks WHS news and views and this week, ripping options and everything surrounding DVD storage and streaming. You can find episode 135 here.

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Problem Installing WHS2011 with a French Keyboard

If you are installing WHS 2011 and have a French keyboard, then the keyboard layout may be incorrectly changed to that of an English keyboard. To resolve this problem you will need to manually change the keyboard layout to French on the language bar by performing the following steps on the server itself by using […]

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A Users Raid Setup for WHS2011

Sean Briscoe tells us about his custom WHS2011 build after coming from the HP MediaSmart. Sean explains how he arranged his folder structure and setup a RAID 1 array for his Documents, Music and Pictures and is using RAID 5 for his video content and client computer backups. You can read his post here.

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How To Remove The Mac Connector

TomOnTech explains how to remove your Mac from being connected to Windows Home Server 2011. Tom explains why you may want to do this: “If you’re like me and have multiple servers that all use the same type of connector software and are testing things out or just want to remove your Mac from being […]

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Hard Drive Monitoring Gadget for WHS

A user on the MediaSmartServer.net forums monitors his Home Server by using the hard drive monitoring and analysis tool Hard Disk Sentinel with a Windows Desktop gadget. With this gadget it enables him to view information from HD Sentinel on his client PC. Its a little difficult to setup but luckily for us instructions are […]