"The Windows Server Essentials and Small Business Server Blog" have an article on getting started with the Dashboard in WS2012 Essentials. For the new Dashboard we are taken through the new home page and are shown tasks which have now been simplified, health monitoring and client monitoring as well as new features and extensibility via [...]
The beta build of StableBit DrivePool has had an update. Version 1.2.0.6962 BETA for WHS 2011, SBS 2011 Essentials and Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials has the following changes: Added byte deltas to re-balance markers. The StableBit Scanner balancer will now respect existing limits and use protected vs. unprotected limits when deciding how to [...]
Service Pack 3 for the add-in Lights-Out has been released and it brings support for Windows Server 2012 Essentials. This latest release works for Windows Server 2012 Essentials, Small Business Server 2011 Essentials, Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials and Windows Home Server 2011, and has the following changes: Official support for Windows Server 2012 Essentials [...]
Episode 100 of the BYOB (Build Your Own Box) podcast is available: This week Jim Collison and John Zajdler join us for an open discussion of technology and hardware. It BYOB’s longest show yet so keep that commute in the slow lane for The 100th episode of The BYOB Podcast. You can find episode 100 [...]
Paul Thurrott is back telling us how to cope with alerts in WS2012 Essentials. Paul explains how the alerts work and how to ignore or delete an individual alert. We are also shown how you can be alerted to issues that are local to your own PC only instead of all networked PCs. You can [...]
Paul Thurrot is back, this time with a tip for the WS2012 Essentials user. How to enable and configure media sharing is Paul’s tip, who explains: You’re prompted to set up Essentials 2012’s media server as part of the initial setup tasks in the Dashboard. That said, if you skip over this step, you can [...]
Paul Thurrott continues his series looking at WS2012 Essentials by taking a look at the client experience. Paul goes through the install steps and tells us what’s it like to what it’s like to join and use a domain and explains the Launchpad and Dashboard for WS2012e users. You can read Paul’s article here.
WD has released a new range of enterprise 3.5" hard drives running at 7200RPM with a 1.2 million hour MTBF. Available in 2TB, 3TB and 4TB capacity the WD RE SATA hard drives have the following features: Dual port, full duplex connectivity: For business-critical enterprise topologies. 1.2M hours MTBF: Provides high level of reliability for [...]
Episode 199 of "The Home Server Show" podcast is up: One Ninety Nine. Jim has the night off so John and Dave tear through the news and discuss a lot of Essentials 2012. If you have needed a shot of Essentials then fear not! Big news at the end of this show that will lead [...]
A member by the name of josjev at tonymacx86.com has written up how they got Time Machine backup working on WHS 2011 using iSCSI: I am running WHS2011 as my home server and have been looking for a way to use it for Time Machine backups for my Mountain Lion Hack. For a while i [...]
