Category: Windows Home Server

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Add-In: WHS Folding Beta Testers Needed

WHS Folding is a Windows Home Server Add-in which we have mentioned before which is a distributed computing project to better understand protein folding, protein aggregation, and related diseases such as Alzheimer’s, ALS, Huntington’s, Parkinson’s disease, and many Cancers. The add-in is currently in private beta but the author Kurt Anderson is looking for some […]

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A Home Server Rig for Around $500

Want to build a Windows Home Server rig for around $500? Then Tested.com has the guide for you and a video too. The guys test an AMD CPU against an Intel model with some file transfer tests and power usage tests. You are then taken through the installation and configuration of Windows Home Server, including […]

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Backup your Mac with Windows Home Server

Will Smith from Tested.com has a guide on "How To Back Up Your Mac with Windows Home Server", which details how to get Windows Home Server working with OS X’s Time Machine Backup. You can catch it here.

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6 Favorite Windows Home Server Add-Ins

Will Smith has posted his 6 Favorite Windows Home Server Add-Ins over on Tested.com “One of my favorite features of Windows Home Server is the ability to extend it’s capabilities using add-ins. Windows Home Servers’ add-ins range the gamut, from incredibly useful tools that help you keep your home server running reliably to goofy toys […]

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Microsoft Server President Talks Home Server

Bob Muglia who is president of the Server and Tools Business (STB) at Microsoft gave an interview with CNET on the future of Windows Server products and about the shift to the cloud. The edited transcript is available for you to read here, but what is of interest to us is what he had to […]

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The Lenovo IdeaCentre D400 Review

The Lenovo IdeaCentre D400 Home Server gets review at Maximum PC who give it a 7 out of 10 rating. Their short review also has some benchmarks compared to a home brew Windows Home server, which you can find here.

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Diagnosing a Client Backup Failure

Wayne Small’s backups started to fail on his Windows 7 PC which even hung when also trying a manual backup. On inspecting the log files it became apparent that the fail was happening at the VSS Snapshot attempts. Wayne run the VSSADMIN LIST WRITERS command as well as running a script to re-register the VSS […]

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Setting up WebDav on Home Server

"Setting up WebDav on Windows Home Server" is an article which is available at AwsomeGeeks.com. It’s always convenient have access to your files from on or off network. However, sometimes it’s also essential for other people to have access too, especially if you collaborate together. Services like Dropbox are great, but if you’re not willing […]

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DVBLink Server Network Pack Version 3.0

DVBLink Server Network Pack version 3.0 is out, allowing you to watch your favorite TV channels not only inside your house, but also over the Internet using a browser interface wherever you are. The DVBLink Server Network Client stays at version 2.1 to ensure interoperability with the currently available release version of all DVBLink source […]

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ASUS TS mini Review

ASUS have taken a rather different path for their home server, forgoing the traditional four bay caddy design favored by other manufacturers for a sealed case that can hold two internal disks. So this is only a small capacity server then, aimed at users who don’t want to store a great deal of information? Well […]