If you are not in the US and have been trying to access the online evaluation experience for WHS 2011 than you may have experienced problems trying to access it. The Evaluation Guide asks you to log into the user account screen and the Dashboard using the password "pass@word1", but upon doing so I got […]
Microsoft have just launched the online evaluation experience for WHS 2011. As Microsoft stated on its launch, there would be no evaluation media or download for WHS2011 as was the case for v1, but this time a virtual experience would be made available for users to demo and experience the product, in the following areas: […]
Family Diary is a suit of applications to allow you to set up a database of appointments and contacts for family and friends. Currently the suit consists of the Windows Service, a Windows client application, an Outlook Add-in, a Windows Phone 7 application and a Windows Home Server Add-in. All the applications in the Family […]
Transfer-Manager is an add-in for WHS2011 which enables you to make your Home Server the central transfer station for all your up and download needs. The add-in is currently in beta and a new build is released every Sunday with new bug fixes and new functions. Build 0.5.410 from the 8th May adds the following […]
Episode 265 of the Hanselminutes Podcast is all about Windows Home Server and network attached storage. Host Scott Hanselman and guest Travis Illig talk about NAS options, their Windows Home server’s which they both own, Drobo and the Synology DS1010/DS1511 Home Storage System. Travis explains why using Western Digital green drives in a server capacity […]
My Movies for Windows Media Center and it’s associated My Movies Collection Management service have both been updated to version 4. With My Movies you can manage your movie collection and browse and watch by genre and rating and with the WHS add-in you can automatically copy and index your movies or CDs onto Home […]
The guys are back for your weekly dose of The Home Server Show, and this weeks podcast has Home Server news including add-in updates plus views and debate from Dave and the gang. Episode 134 can be found here.
Richard Hay from WindowsObserver.com decided to try WHS 2011 on his home network Richard’s files: …are stored on the server’s 1.5TB internal drive (J: drive) are mirrored on the second internal 1.5TB hard drive plus the J: drive is backed up once each day to the external 1TB hard drive. So that data is also […]
There are a combination of steps that need to be completed for you to backup Your Mac to WHS2011 using Time Machine. And if you are wondering what they are then Paul Carvajal has documented the 7 steps necessary to get this up and running, which you can find here – Thanks Paul!
Seagate are claiming to have the first 3.5in 1TB single platter hard drives. This technology will first appear in Seagate’s GoFlex Desk external drives over the next few weeks with their Barracuda range of desktop hard drives following with 3TBs of storage on 3 disk platters as well as 2TB, 1.5TB and 1TB models. Seagate […]
