A nice case study from fellow MVP Kevin Royalty on the benefits of using WS2012 Essentials in a small business environment: As the IT department for most of its small-business customers, Total Care Computer Consulting was eager to begin offering Windows Server 2012 Essentials as a replacement for Windows Small Business Server 2008. In addition […]
Late last year Drive Bender introduced S.M.A.R.T. monitoring, giving the user real-time feedback on the health of their hard drives. But instead of reinventing the wheel and carry on developing their own SMART application, Drive Bender have teamed up with the people at Hard Disk Sentinel. So the next release of Drive Bender will […]
My Server is in app for Windows Server 2012 Essentials users which helps keep you seamlessly connected to your server resources on devices running Windows 8 and Windows RT. Available as a free download in the Windows Store, My Server is similar to the My Server Windows Phone app where you can manage users, devices […]
Paul Thurrott explains his thoughts about sync, storage and backup by explaining how he does things himself. Paul has a HP micro server running Windows Server 2012 Essentials. It has five 3-TB hard drives attached. Two of which are external and three which are internal. Paul admits that it is sagging under the weight of […]
Episode 110 of the BYOB podcast is up, and for this episode: Its the low cost podcast this week. DNS-325 recycling, iOS now has an OpenVPN app, Firebox x500 modded to be a router, and the Obi100 VoIP with Google voice. We are fortunate to be joined by Tobias Hieta from Plex Media to talk […]
The 5 bay Drobo FS replacement the 5N is given an unboxing in GeekBeat TV. It’s always a cause for celebration when we get a cool new device at the studio to unbox, and especially so when it’s from Drobo. We use Drobos to keep all our shows safe and we’re excited to see the […]
The AWIECO WakeOnLAN Pro app is now available for Windows Phone 8. Start up computers attached to your network with AWIECO WakeOnLAN Pro, pin computers to Live Tiles This application is built by AWIECO and needs the AWIECO WakeOnLAN Pro add-in for Windows Home Server 2011 and Windows Small Business Server 2011 . To […]
Folder redirection will fail on Windows Server 2012 Essentials if there is already a folder in C:\ServerFolders\Folder Redirection, that matches the username. Folder redirection will fail if you delete and recreate a user with the same name. This is due to the new user not having the permission to create redirected folders since the client […]
Another good write up on Windows 8 Storage Spaces, this time courtesy of PC Pro. Their 4 page how-to guide gives us an understanding of pools and storage spaces, talks resiliency and parity and explains what happens when a disk fails. A comprehensive read which you can read here.
For users of SBS 2011 Essentials and Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials, the Windows Server Solutions BPA has been updated for January 2013. Update Rollup 4 for Windows Server Solutions BPA include the following 3 new rules: DefWebSiteExtended – This rule checks whether the default website is extended correctly. RemoteVDirAuthentication – This rule checks […]
