if you are using Windows Home Server with Windows 8 then you might encounter the following 2 issues: The Windows Live ID credential used in Windows 8 is not recognized by Home Server The Home Server Client Connector setup may not install the OEM client software .This is caused because the Client Connector setup [...]
How to Use Windows 8′s Storage Spaces to Mirror & Combine Drives is a tutorial from the How-To Geek. Creating, using and managing a Storage Space are detailed and as the next version of Windows Home Server will be using Storage Spaces then now is as good a time as any to brush up on [...]
If you are using a Mac client with Windows Home Server 2011 you will notice that if you later try to uninstall the Microsoft Launchpad application, that there is no uninstall option. If you come across this situation then Microsoft have published a KB Article explaining how to uninstall the connector software from the computer [...]
The guys at StableBit have been hard at work compiling the StableBit DrivePool User Manual. There are currently four sections to the guide. The quick start section and sections on adding and removing a drive to and from the pool as well as folder duplication. Its currently still a work in progress, which you can [...]
If you would like to know how to add or remove a user account to Windows Home Server 2011 then groovyPost has a tutorial for you. This back to basics tutorial explains the process of adding users to the network which is one of the first things which you need to do once you start [...]
A back to basics post from last year on how to backup your Windows Home Server folders to an external hard drive. The tutorial by Brian Burgess at BYTE takes us through the necessary steps to giving our data a second level of protection. You can find Brian’s tutorial here.
As Server 8 will be the backbone behind the next version of WHS 2011 and SBS 2011 Essentials, we thought you may want to learn a bit about this next great Server operating system and its features. Our friend Tom Ziegmann has posted a list of Test Lab Guides for Windows Server “8″ Beta which [...]
Paul Thurrott in his Windows 8 Feature Focus series talks Storage Spaces. Paul gives us his Storage Spaces 101 and shows us how it really works by taking us through its setup and configuration as well as comparing its features to Drive Extender from version 1 of Windows Home Server. You can read Windows 8 [...]
Brian Burgess from GroovyPost.com has written a walkthrough on how to install Windows Home Server 2011 onto a USB flash drive. In his how-to Brain takes us through the flash drive setup steps and also links to his WHS 2011 installation steps. A great way of installing WHS if your Home Server has not a [...]
Microsoft has published a Wiki article on TechNet on known issues when you join Windows 8 Beta to Windows Home Server 2011. Apart from the .Net Framework 3.5 issue which we have already covered, also of importance is 3 other issues which others have experienced: Power setting of Client backup doesn’t work. The thumbnail of [...]
