Do you know how to shutdown or restart your Windows Home Server from within the console? I’m sure you do, but if not the How-To Geek has a reminder and takes you easily through the process, which you can find here.
How do you backup the Windows Home Server data itself? One option is to use an external hard drive and the How-To Geek takes us through the process of adding the external drive and how to remove it afterwards. You can read their tutorial here.
The Home Server Show has a post for Outlook users which shows you how to publish your Outlook calendars using the WebDAV capability of the Windows Home Server. WebDAV is a protocol used to publish content to the IIS web server which is built into Home Server and also enables you to manage that content […]
If you are building your own home server you might have a hard disk controller that isn’t supported by Windows Home Server. It could be a RAID device that you will use in drive only mode or it might be a unit that is quite new and the drivers are not built into the installation […]
If you are having connection issues with Windows Home Server then you need the Windows Home Server Toolkit. The How-To Geek have a guide on installing Microsoft’s utility and explains how to use the Connector Troubleshooter element of the toolkit as well as it’s advanced mode. You can read the guide here.
If you plug in a USB hard drive to your Home Server to backup the WHS unit itself you will notice that there is no way to schedule the backup. Thankfully there is a set of instructions on how to get a "scheduled” backup using a key stroke macro which will run via the Windows […]
Computer Shopper have a tips & tricks guide on how to build your own Windows Home Server, which explains how to cook up and configure your own WHS on the cheap using an old PC. The massive 9 part article goes through the minimum parts needed, installation and configuration, setting up users and Windows clients, […]
Wuala (http://www.wuala.com/) is an online storage platform from Lacie. It differs from many other platforms because you can trade storage with other users. That is you can allocate a certain amount of storage that can safely and securely be used by other users and in return get access to storage provided by other users. From […]
"Configure your Computer to Backup to Windows Home Server" is the latest tutorial from the How-To Geek which looks at the process of configuring a computer on your network to be backed up automatically to WHS. You can catch it here.
If you are finding it difficult to restore a 64-bit PC with Windows Home Server then we have a solution for you. These problems are mostly due to network interface and/or SATA AHCI/RAID drivers and Matt Whitlock explains in the first place where to find the drivers and then how to restore a 64-bit PC […]
