Have you ever wished that your Windows Home Server would tell you when it’s about to shut off due to a power outage? Well it can be done. Blogger Sean Daniel shows us by using a UPS, configuring the alerts in the power management control panel and by using 1 of 2 VBS scripts. All [...]
In the May (2008) edition of the magazine PC Pro, the Tranquil PC T2-WHS-A3 Harmony Home Server wins a PC Pro A List award. To celebrate for this weekend only Tranquil PC are offering their acclaimed Recovery Kit valued at £29 FREE of charge on all Home Server orders. the review concludes that: …the T2-WHS-A3 [...]
The IT source for hardware analysis and industry news AnandTech has a look at the data corruption bug in a more technical light taking us through the Drive Extender technology. What you shall read is a mixture of things they know for sure, along with some educated guessing based on what sources told them. They [...]
After our post yesterday regarding an article in Personal Computer World, George Melissargos from Iomega who was interviewed for the piece contacted us. Iomega’s Windows Home Server product called the Home Center has been placed on hold for now due to market conditions and was not delayed due to the data corruption bug. Iomega offers [...]
We have shown you before how to install the Connector Software on Vista x64 machines even before Power Pack 1 with that technology is released. Readers leaving comments found that it also worked on Windows XP x64 SP2 also. One by the name of budious said: …to my surprise, found that it detected the computer [...]
As announced previously Todd Headrick the Product Manager of the Windows Home Server Team posted a question over on the WHS forums asking if you would like Power Pack 1 released prior to June 2008, the date when the Data Corruption fix is due. More than 220 replies later and with Windows home Server MVP [...]
Storage company Iomega has dropped it’s Windows Home Server product because it could not be made at a price low enough for its target audience. The 500GB unit would have sold at approx 600 euros (£450), but price was not the only factor in the decision to drop it from its range. George Melissargos, Iomega’s [...]
General Manager of Windows Home Server Charlie Kindel talks about what’s in Home Server for IT Pros on Microsoft’s Edge site. Charlie runs 5 servers at home, and had no problem integrating Home Server and its functionality. He talks about two guys, Jeff and Oliver, that don’t really exist, but that his team had in [...]
Our Norwegian friend Sgaah has posted a guide on how to make VCalendar run on Windows Home Server. VCalendar or Virtual Calendar is an open source Web calendar application for posting and maintaining events and schedules online, in calendar format. The guide is in Norwegian but as Sgaah says pictures tell more then a thousand [...]
The Mid-Hudson Computer User Group is holding a presentation on Windows Home Server this Thursday 13th March at Poughkeepsie in New York.John Bickford you tell you all you need to know about Home Server with a Q & A session beginning at 6:30 p.m., followed at 7:00 p.m. by business announcements. The feature presentation will [...]
