Episode 190 of The Home Server Show podcast is available and this week the guys are breaking down domain vs. workgroup and Storage Spaces in the new beta of Windows Server 2012 Essentials. “It’s another Windows Home Server post-mortem but there are no tears; only celebration. Well, maybe not that happy but we are looking […]
Tinkertry has another great video on Windows Server 2012 Beta Essentials, this time explaining that it works fine with PCs in the domain or in a workgroup. Domain complexity can be entirely hidden from the average PC user whose system is being backed up with Windows Server 2012 Beta Essentials as is demonstrated in this […]
Martin Rothschink has released a beta build of his add-in Lights-Out with full Windows Server 2012 Essentials Support. Lights-Out is a power management add-in that allows you to place your server into suspended mode or hibernation and resume on user defined events. Lights-Out (non beta) will officially support Windows Server 2012 Essentials with one of […]
Steven Sinofsky announced at Microsoft’s annual sales meeting that customers will be able to get Windows 8 on October 26th, 2012 either on a new PC or as an upgrade. Earlier this month at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, Tami Reller told attendees Windows 8 would be available in October and now we have a […]
Revision3’s TEKZiLLA twice weekly tech show have a segment entitled “Are your Green Drives Killing Your NAS?” In this 10 minute segment PCPer.com’s Allyn Malventano talks about Western Digital’s new Red NAS Drives with their Time Limited Error Recovery – TLER (normally only available in enterprise RAID edition drives) and automatic dynamic balancing. Allyn also […]
Joe Nalewabau from the Windows Server Essentials Team has written a feature list for Windows Server 2012 Essentials Joe has listed lots of features, including: Storage Spaces File History Microsoft Online Backup Service Support for backing up 50 client machines > 2 TB disk support Remote Web Access (RWA) Windows 8 Metro application. Updated Windows […]
StableBit DrivePool version 1.0.2.6324 BETA is available with finalized translations plus an installer update. StableBit DrivePool is the Drive Extender type add-in for WHS 2011 users that allows you to both pool multiple hard drives into one big virtual drive and to easily add or remove drives at any time whilst providing file protection in […]
Totally unrelated to both WHS and WS2012e, but for those of you who like tinkering with new products Microsoft’s Windows MultiPoint Server 2012 Beta went live yesterday. MultiPoint Server is designed for schools and allows a single computer to support multiple users at the same time, each working independently using their own monitor, keyboard and […]
HP have a webcast on Windows Server 2012 Essentials this Wednesday July 18th at 8:00PM PT. Topics covered will be the features and benefits of Windows Server 2012 Essentials , customer scenarios, the HP Product portfolio and their transition plans, plus a 20 minute Q&A session. More details are in this demo video: Here is […]
A great 20 minute video on the installation of the connector software and a demonstration of both backup and bare-metal restore in Windows Server 2012 Beta Essentials (WS2012E):
