Archive for October, 2007

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Virtual SCALEO Home Server

For those of you that don’t know, Second Life is a 3-D online virtual world entirely created by its Residents. The infrastructure of user-built virtual worlds, is where people interact, play, trade and otherwise communicate. A virtual SCALEO Home Server from within the Green Island As of October 17th 2007 Fujitsu Siemens Computers has opened […]

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Podcast – Is Windows Home Server what the average home user should run out to get?

Popular software and game news site neowin.net have a weekly NeowinCAST podcast. There News Edition for October 18th 2007 includes a discussion on Windows Home Server and should the average home user run out to get it amongst other topics.The part on WHS is 32 minutes into the podcast and lasts for approximately 10 minutes […]

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Webcast on the Windows Home Server Toolkit

The Windows Home Server Toolkit technical overview is the title of another live web seminar being offered on Microsoft’s Partner Program web site. The Tool Kit is a collection of utilities that can help users diagnose Windows Home Server installation and operation related issues within their home networks. This webcast will give a technical overview […]

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Windows Home Server SDK

For those of you wishing to tinker and write add-ins for Windows Home server, then don’t forget the Windows Home Server Software Development Kit (SDK) in it’s final version is available to help you. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb743248.aspx

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avast! WHS Edition AntiVirus Updated to 2.1 Beta

The guys and girls at alwil software have been really busy.They have just updated their antivirus solution for Windows home Server to version 2.1 beta to include the following improvements: Finally sets the firewall exceptions correctly on all OS’s (i.e. communication with the WHS console should now work immediately, unless a 3rd party firewall product […]

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Windows Home server Review – Sysadmin Made Easy!

Another comprehensive review of WHS is online. Entitled Windows Home Server – Sysadmin Made Easy!, the 7 page article can be found at the Asian HardwareZone Community website. The review first looks at the minimum requirements for Home server and then goes through the client installation. Backup and restore and user accounts are looked at […]

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Installing software direct on the server – where to install

When installing software on the Server directly, it is fine to use the default installation directory (usually C:\Program Files) especially for utility software like defragmentation tools, anti virus solutions and third-party backup software. But remember the system drive C: has only 20GB allocated to it (in the RTM version), so installing too much software on […]

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WHS Version Information 1500.0 or 1500.6 – We have the Answer

I posed a question to you readers a couple of days ago regarding the version information displayed on the Resources tab within the console. My clean OEM install after Windows Update showed the following: Whilst my friends server and others from the WHS forums were showing: As you can see my “Windows Home Server Backup […]

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High Quality Audio Patched to Stereo – Does WHS have any Features in that Area?

I received an email from one of our blog readers Scott Mathews, who asked the following: Hey Philip, I’m in the middle of a total redesign of my home network, and only just discovered WHS (I was goggling for “NAS vs USB” and some posts favored WHS).Part of my goal is to get high quality […]

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avast! WHS Edition Antivirus Updated to Beta 2

The windows Home Server edition of avast! Antivirus has been updated to beta 2  (WHS: 4.7.18, Home/Pro: 4.7.1066). Beta 2 has: Resolved the problem with inaccessible WHS shares Improved code for setting Windows firewall exceptions Minor GUI changes/improvements Scheduled to be released in the first half of November 2007, you have only a couple of […]