A short 42 minute episode of The Home Server Show this week on cloud storage and Symform: Jim and I take just a little of your time to discuss cloud storage in general and the space that we use and things we need to try in order to reduce our storage. Jim is also trying […]
Another update for My Movies Home and Essentials Server Solution for users of WHS 2011 and WS2012 Essentials. Version 2.13 has the following changes: Added: Option to use external storage devices instead of only internal storage. Update: Product package renamed to My Movies Home and Essentials Server Solution to cover that the package is now […]
Its time again for another episode of the BYOB podcast: “This week we discuss SurfacePRO and XBMC with our guest Adam Snell from androidandi.com on this episode of the BYOB Podcast.” You can find episode 111 here.
The add-in My Movies Home and Essentials Server Solution for WHS2011 and WS2012 Essentials has had an update. Version 2.13 PR5 has the following changes: Fix: The application prompted to register AnyDVD when updating, even if already installed. Fix: MusicBrainz was disabled was a meta-data provider during Pre Release testing, and is now enabled again. […]
The beta build of Drive Bender for WHS2011 and SBS Essentials 2011 has a new release. Version 1.4.7.7 features a new SMART engine powered by Hard Disk Sentinel. Here is the full change log: Added: Hard Disk Sentinel is now powering the S.M.A.R.T. functionality. Added: Physical drive number emulation supported (allows TrueCrypt volumes to be […]
Robert Pearman has written a script which will allow you to restore the WS2012 Essentials firewall customisations. Whilst troubleshooting a problem on a server, have you ever reset Windows Firewall back to Defaults, but this could have unexpected consequences. You could export and import the policy from Windows Firewall, with the import overwriting the […]
The beta release of StableBit DrivePool for WHS2011, SBS 2011 Essentials and Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials has had an update. Version 1.3.0.7388 BETA includes many fixes and optimizations. Here’s the full change log: Added an optimization layer to BaseDataInfo that checks whether value and string type properties have actually changed before firing off an […]
Its time for another episode of "The Home Server Show" podcast, and this week it’s all MicroServer: When I say all Microserver, I mean ALL Microserver. The entire episode is dedicated to “the little server that could.” This thing can do it all and my guests have done it! I’m talking with Chris Kenney, the […]
Microsoft have published a series of TechNet videos on Windows Server 2012 Essentials in their Virtual Academy. There are 6 videos or modules in all, the 1st being an overview and how to plan plan: An introduction to Windows Server 2012 Essentials, to get an overview of its main feature areas, and learn about some […]
StableBit Scanner for WHS2011, SBS 2011 Essentials and Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials has had an update to fix the SMART query timeout. Here’s the full change log for version 2.3.1.2859 / 2.3.1.2860: In the file scan, when non-recoverable entities are detected (such as unknown file systems), do not allow the user to start recovery […]
