Would you need a Home Server if you were, say, a better mother?

The Windows Server Solutions division of Redmond’s Microsoft is producing a 24-page children’s book, Mommy, Why Is There a Server in the House? that will be sold on Amazon.com.

While Microsoft plans to distribute the children’s book at events, it hopes that people will purchase a copy on Amazon.com. “It’s designed for the technical enthusiast,” said Steven VanRoekel, senior director, Windows Server Solutions Group, Microsoft. “We can’t just produce T-shirts anymore and hand them out at shows.”

The book is the same title, but a longer version of the one displayed on Stay-At-Home Servers which today added another video entitled Home Sweet Server where a reporter interviews a family about why they bought a home server by asking them increasingly inappropriate and insulting questions. At one point he says to the mother, “You think your family would need a home server if you were, say, a better mother?”

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Add-In: Client Info Updated

Eric Maurer has released a new version of the add-in Client Info which enables you to see hardware information about your home server and all client computers; including processor, memory, IP address, drive size, drive temp, and if a drive SMART failure is predicted.

Client Info 1.0.2

Changes to this new version 1.0.2:

  • Disconnected computers are displayed correctly
  • RAM is calculated correctly
  • Error messages have been made easier to reed
  • Username and password are stored for each client computer
  • Hard drive temp alarms can be set for each client and the server
  • A warning is shown if a SMART failure is predicted

More information and the download are available from here.

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Virtual Windows Home Server

If you are like me and enjoy testing the different features of Windows Home Server and all the different add-ins available for it then it is a good idea to set up another copy of WHS in a testing environment.

One way of doing this is within a virtual machine that allows you to install a complete copy plus applications into a virtual (emulated) computer, complete with BIOS and hardware configuration options.

This way you can create a custom test environment that can be rebuilt at any time, and can easily be restored to previous states without going through a full installation of Home Server.

For full details on how to accomplice this the website I Hate Linux has the walk through using the free Microsoft Virtual PC software.

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