Windows Home Server 2011 will have an add-in by a third party which will provide similar functionality to what Drive Extender (DE) had. The add-in StableBit DrivePool will let you add multiple hard drives into one combined storage pool on the Windows Home Server 2011. You can create folder shares on this storage pool, and […]
Windows PC’s are automatically added to the backup which takes place in a round robin style nightly but if you are using a Mac you end up with a launch pad and access to the server, but no default backup. Our friend Sean Daniel (with help from Fabian and Craig) has put together the steps […]
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.
"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 […]
Microsoft have another video in their Learning Bites series on how to add some very low cost and easy to implement redundancy for your data using software raid which is available from the underlying Windows Server 2008R2 operating system. This allows you to continue using the server until you are able to schedule a maintenance […]
If you use the blog writing software Windows Live Writer then did you know that there is a way of fooling it, so you can store both your drafts and published posts on your Windows Home Server enabling you to access them on any computer on your home network or via the WHS remote access […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The add-in AWIECO RemoteLauncher is now available for Windows Home Sever 2011 RC and Small Business Server 2011 Essentials RC. The free add-in enables you to manage your server remotely and enables you to access predefined System Tools like: Windows Explorer Commandline Event Viewer Services Control Panel Computer Manager Device Manager Registry Editor Task Manager […]
