The add-in Home Server Status v2.0 has had a very small update. Change log: FIXED: Removed WHS v1 icons. Originally, I used very similar WHS v1 icons for nostalgia, but since I do not wish to break MS copyright, I have totally replaced the icons in the settings page and system tray with originals. FIXED: […]
Episode 149 of The Home Server Show UR1 Edition is available. This weeks podcast has news and views from Dave and the guys on everything Home Server, including details on Update Rollup 1. You can get it here.
As announced earlier this year hardware from Acer for WHS 2011 in the form of the the RevoCenter is (finally) nearing release. The Acer RevoCenter RC110 – RC111 looks similar to its v1 offering but naturally has beefier hardware. Sporting a Intel Atom D425 in the RC110 and a D525 Atom in the RC111, both […]
David McCabe has another article on BYTE on how to add users to Windows Home Server 2011. Another great back to basics tutorial by David which takes us through creating user accounts and the options open to us along the configuration process. You can read it here.
With HP’s news last week stating they are going to spin off or sell it’s Personal Systems Group (PSG), many of you have asked if this will affect you if you own the HP ProLiant MicroServer, a great server to install Windows Home Server. And the good news is no it will not affect you […]
A list of resources for Windows Home Server 2011 have been published by Microsoft. The seven listed documents which are available for download include brochures, datasheets and whitepapers related to WHS 2011. You can find them here.
Update Rollup 1 for WHS 2011 is now available that fixes 9 known issues. This first major update package for v2 users address the following: Issue 1 You cannot register a Remote Web Access domain name that contains two or more root domain levels (such as testuser.com.uk). Additionally, you receive an error message that resembles […]
Hot on the heals of 1175 is the latest version of Drive Bender which fixes a number of start up issues experienced by some users. Here is the change log for release 1.1.7.6 (2011-08-22) Bug fix: Networked mount points now start correctly (these were hanging the startup process). Update: License issues are now sent via […]
Squeezebox Server for Windows Home server has had an update. Version 7.6.1 fixes these issues for Squeezebox Server: Playback: Unable to play tracks in Browse Music subfolders Scanner: Scanning of music library stops prematurely if player accesses music library during scanning Tracks deleted still appear in music library after New and Changed scan Extra spaces […]
We wrote about Home Server Status back in July and explained that it bought back the Windows Home Server v1 status icon to WHS 2011 via either the taskbar or system tray, since out the box v2 does not have any popup or warning about when the Home Server is running a backup. Well now […]
