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The Home Server Show Podcast Episode 124

This weeks Home Server Show podcast is a mammoth one. As well as the weeks Home Server news the BYOB Podcast crew join the guys to talk storage, RAID and backups. You can catch episode 124 here.

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The WHS Homepage Reengineered

Gordon Schmidt who is an active member specifically in the Windows Home Server space is re-engineering the WHS homepage (both yourservername.homeserver.com/home/default.aspx & yourservername.homeserver.com/remote/default.aspx). His goal is to be as creative as he and his 2 younger brothers can be and offer more functionality and customization to the end-user for these these two web pages. Its […]

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The Home Server Show Podcast Episode 123

The latest episode of The Home Server Show has news on Windows Home Server 2011, add-ins, Virtual Machines, Worm Holes plus lots more. That’s episode 123 which you can find here.

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Building a WHS with Muscle

"How-To Build a Windows Home Server with Muscle (but no Drive Extender)" is an updated version of an article which was written at Maximum PC: The next generation of Windows Home Server enables video streaming and transcoding operations, so we built a WHS system that can handle the load Their build list totals short of […]

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Hard Drive Failing Noises

Every hard drive makes a certain noise before it is about to fail and every brand and even models within that brand make slightly different noises. Luckily for us data recovery company Data Cent has put together a catalogue of drive failing noises from the likes of Western Digital, Seagate, Maxtor, Samsung etc which is […]

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WHS2011 – The Video Collection

If like me you prefer to watch instead of reading about Windows Home Server 2011 then we have some great videos for you, 11 to be exact which should keep you busy for a while First up here is a video of “almost” everything that is “click-able” in Windows Home Server 2011 courtesy of the […]

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Why a Microsoft Employee Uses WHS V2

Keen amateur photographer and Microsoft employee Sean Daniel tells us why he shall be using the new Windows Home Server 2011. Sean tells us that removing DE was a very tough decision, but why he agrees with its removal given what he knows (and he should know more than all of us since he works […]

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The Home Server Show Podcast Episode 122

The Home Server Show podcast this week is naturally all about the availability of the Release Candidate of Windows Home Server 2011. Plus of course the weeks news and views from Dave and the gang on all things Home Server. Episode 122 is available from here.

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SBS 2011 Essentials RC Available

With all the excitement of Windows Home Server 2011 RC being released yesterday it nearly slipped under our radar that the RC of Small Business Server 2011 Essentials (also known as codename Aurora) also became available too. Ideal as a first server for small businesses with up to 25 users, you can learn more by […]

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Updated WHS2011 SDK Available

With the RC release of Windows Home Server 2011 also comes an updated Windows Server Solutions SDK which provides tools and information to help developers develop their add-ins, and extend the functionality of Windows Home Server 2011. You can find the SDK documentation on MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg513877.aspx  Using the Windows Server Solutions SDK: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg513988.aspx API reference: […]