This weeks edition of The Home Server Show podcast is available, and in this weeks edition: …Isn’t it nice to get a new server and start tinkering with it? John and Jim seem to do it often and we are talking about it. We also have a little on Drobo, Synology, and John has a […]
How to Use Windows 8′s Storage Spaces to Mirror & Combine Drives is a tutorial from the How-To Geek. Creating, using and managing a Storage Space are detailed and as the next version of Windows Home Server will be using Storage Spaces then now is as good a time as any to brush up on […]
The WebDAV for WHS Add-In has been updated to version 1.0.67 The add-in for WHS 2011 users enables WebDAV access to the server folders allowing you to install and configure the IIS WebDAV feature, Choose the alias name for the virtual directory, grant folder permissions and allow HTTPS access only. Change Log: Added: Check whether […]
PCWorld has an article on how to choose the right server for your small business. The article explains how to choose the right server for your needs and look at the various options available to you. Included in those options is Windows Home Server 2011 as well as NAS, Tower Servers Rack Servers and Blade […]
If you are using a Mac client with Windows Home Server 2011 you will notice that if you later try to uninstall the Microsoft Launchpad application, that there is no uninstall option. If you come across this situation then Microsoft have published a KB Article explaining how to uninstall the connector software from the computer […]
You may remember Previous Versions a front end for the Volume Shadow Copy service in WHS 2011, a feature that allows you to recover an older version of a document or other data file. The forth coming Windows 8 introduces File History and Windows guru Paul Thurrott explains the details: [File History] attempts to right […]
Thanks to hard drive manufacturer Seagate, storage capacity could soon double as it is the first hard drive producer to achieve a storage density of 1 terabyte per square inch. This means that current hard drives could double over the next decade, especially 3.5-inch drives with space of 60TB or more. More information is available […]
StableBit DrivePool the Drive Extender type add-in for WHS 2011 users has had an update. Version 5905 includes the following changes: Added option to force a duplication consistency check (Pool tab). Added code to safeguard against non-responsive (malfunctioning) devices. [D] Added code to handle non-responsive (malfunctioning) devices. [D] = Driver was modified (reboot required after […]
Windows Home Server saved Richard Hay’s data after he encountered a blue screen: While performing a couple of different tasks on my main machine (burning music to a CD-ROM and streaming music from my WHS 2011) the machine blue screened and rebooted. It never recovered and just kept up that BSOD and reboot loop. The […]
Episode 81 of the BYOB podcast is up with more discussion for the "Build Your Own Box" enthusiasts. “eVGA SRX motherboard, Zenbook, The new iPAD, the new Apple TV, SSD Caching with Highpoint’s new card, on Episode 81 of the BYOB Podcast.” You can find it here.
