Home Server Status has been updated to work with WS2012 Essentials (and Windows 8). Requirements: Windows Server 2012 Essentials Windows 7 or Windows 8 32/64 bit .NET v4.x framework Windows Server 2012 Essentials Connector MUST BE INSTALLED! You can download this latest release from here.
From the 2012 Home Server Show meet up, the guys have posted a 50 minute video where they take a look at Windows Server 2012 Essentials. The video covers the very basics, mostly is a Q&A session from the meet up. It addresses concerns people have about moving from version 1 of Windows Home Server […]
The add-in Lights-Out has been updated to version 1.5.3.1819. This latest release has the following changes: High CPU load on Apple Mac OS X Detection of "Server offline" on Apple Mac OS X Server is missing in uptime diagram if standard action is set to "do nothing" but server is controlled by calendar Shutdown problems […]
The Cloudberry Lab is back with an article on how to use CloudBerry Backup with Windows Azure. The tutorial starts with the Windows Azure sign up process including creating the storage account and managing your access keys. Finishing with configuring CloudBerry Backup for your Windows Azure account. You can find the tutorial here.
Its back after a short absence, its episode 101 of the BYOB podcast: “Backbeat go, Microsoft gesture mice, Iconia W700, Surface RT, and What windows 8 device are you looking forward to? All on BYOB Episode 101.” You can play or download the podcast from here.
Another article from Paul Thurrott’s Supersite for Windows, and this ones thinking about backup strategies with WS 2012 Essentials. Paul looks at the various backup/replication technologies that exist in WS2012e: Storage Spaces Centralized PC backups Server Backup You can find the article here.
AWIECO WakeOnLan has now been made available for Server 2012 Essentials. The add-in which gives you the ability to remotely turn on a computer has been made available for WS 2012 Essentials. It enables the Server to start up every computer attached to your network and power off a computer out of the Launchpad. You […]
Covecube the company behind StableBit DrivePool have released WhsDbDataDump, a standalone tool to extract VHDs from the client backups database in WHS 2011: This tool is designed to extract complete mountable disk images (VHD) from the Windows Home Server 2011 Client Computer Backups database of backups. It is self contained and has no external dependencies […]
CloudBerry Backup for WHS has been updated to version 3.0.1 This latest release for WHS v1 and 2011, SBS 2011 Essentials and Windows Server 2012 Essentials includes some more advanced features for Amazon Glacier such as data encryption, compression and restore directly from within the CloudBerry Backup interface. Amazon Glacier, a secure, reliable and low […]
Episode 202 of "The Home Server Show" podcast is up, and this week: “Tim Barrett joins us to talk more Essentials, SBS, and what the death of Windows Home Server means to the SBS side of the business. Also, what to do with Essentials when faced with no Exchange server. Cloud or no? Is it […]
