One thing that surprised me when I was installing Windows Home Server was the fact that it didn’t ask me for a time zone. Sure enough, when it finished booting up after the install the time was 2 hours off for me. WHS defaults to GMT -8, which is great if you live in California, […]
Remote or off-site backups are a great solution for those who wish to protect their WHS files from fire, flood or theft. This adds a great layer of redundancy in case of catastrophic loss. For WHS there are a few remote or on-line backup options out there (iDrive-E, Mozy, Carbonite) and some even offer a […]
For those of you beta testing avast! WHS Edition, we have some good news if one of your client machines is a Vista-based laptop.Due to the way Vista uses profiles within the Windows firewall, the service within Avast! does not communicate with the server correctly. This will be fixed in beta 3 which will be […]
Controversial writer David Berlind from the ZDNet Berlind’s Testbed blog has posted a follow up to the article he wrote in September (2007), Will Windows Home Server be Microsoft’s next flop? He writes that since the article was published that he has received emails saying he was out of line for saying what he did.Berlin […]
With Windows Home Server only being available as an OEM product, you will not get the two free support requests that come with most of Microsoft’s retail boxed products. So what can you do if you have a problem and are really stuck? Well, you can call on the help of the WHS community. Two […]
Microsoft have put more information on how to use Windows Home Server on their site. Entitled The Microsoft Home Server House, it can be got to from their WHS page below the “It’s all coming together” picture by clicking on “Experience a Connected Home” (will open in a separate window) or by going directly to […]
It’s come to our attention that the add-in OnTheFlyUnzipper has a serious bug. If the add-in is uninstalled it will remove two Windows Home Server files with it. Good news though, the German Homeserver Blog says that the error was immediately corrected and a new version has been posted. For those of you with a […]
I done a podcast today for the PerfectDisk Blog, which is a blog run by the people behind the defrag tool PerfectDisk 8 and is about everything you need to know about defragmentation. In the podcast I explain who I am, I go through some of the details of Windows Home Server and end with […]
We started earlier in the week with a reader asking for advice and since then we have a few more questions from Windows Home Server enthusiasts, or a potential one at least. First up is Michiel who asks: What are the best settings for WHS “Power Options”?Is it possible to turn the hard disks off […]
If you have installed Windows Home Server and previously had RC1 installed, or another machine on your network had the same name you are now using for WHS, chances are you might run into the situation where the WHS connector software on the client machine is always telling you that you need to “Update Your […]
