The Beagle built a 2012 Essentials lab machine on his HyperV host at home and gives us a tour (with commentary). A nice preview for those of you who have not tried WS2012e yet. You can find the Beagle’s post here.
Its time for another episode of "The Home Server Show" podcast: It’s the Home Server Show post Christmas show and we are sharing the airwaves with Surface Geeks. I don’t think you will even notice a difference actually! The Surface Geek listeners will hear some differences because we are going to talk about a monster […]
CloudBerry Backup for WHS version 3.2 has been released. The new release comes with the following features. Amazon Glacier Smart Restore. Amazon Glacier data restore is charged based on the peak usage during the given month. In other words if you have to restore 100GB and you restore them in 1 hours you will pay […]
Back in early December Microsoft forum user Kevin Purcell posted his experiences of using Windows Server Essentials 2012. Kevin lists 13 experiences he had with Microsoft’s latest small server offering which detail Storage Spaces, media issues amongst others which may be of interest to you if you are a new user of WS2012 Essentials. You […]
Episode 106 of the BYOB podcast is available: Happy Holidays! 2012 in review, SkyDrive Sync, Crucial RMA, CrashPlan, Super Router, Type Cover, Surface RT, Windows 8 Apps on the BYOB Podcast. And you can find it here.
From all of us here at MSWHS.com we wish all our readers, advertisers, supporters and contributors a very merry Christmas/happy holidays (depending on your faith) and wish you a wonderful time with family, friends and your Servers! Santa is preparing on this Christmas Eve To deliver presents, which I am waiting to receive In his […]
The IT Pro Connection blog on TechNet has an interesting article on thin provisioning in Storage Spaces. The article explains what thin provisioning is and how to configure it in Storage Spaces. A nice read which also includes a 13 minute video which you can find here.
Did you know that Windows Server 2012 Essentials includes DirectAccess? Windows Server 2012 Essentials now includes the ability to be a DirectAccess server! In the Windows Server 2008 R2 timeframe, DirectAccess required two distinct servers and two public facing IP addresses. In Windows Server 2012, only one public IP address is required and DirectAccess can […]
The Home Server Show blog has a great post on Storage Spaces Performance in Windows Server 2012 Essentials on a HP N40L ProLiant MicroServer: While I was expecting poorer write speeds with Parity drives (based on past testing) I was surprised by the relative poor write speeds for 2-way and 3-way Mirror drives with ReFS. […]
If you are thinking of using Windows 8 as a Home Server then the guys behind the add-in Lights-Out have a preview of Lights-Out for Windows 8 "Home Server" available to beta testers. Lights-Out for Windows 8 "Home Server" (but will also run on Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 and later) will be available […]
