Acer in Japan have announced that their easyStore H340 series of Home Servers will be initially available in 2 configurations. The H340-S1 will have 1 x 1TB of storage space whilst the H340-S2 will have 3 x 1TB drives, totalling 3TB. Both machines are powered by the Atom 1.6Ghz 230 with 1GB of memory and […]
Microsoft now believes that there is a lot of people who are not willing to spend much on server software let alone hardware, but may actually be interested in a basic Windows Server. Chief executive officer Steve Ballmer said in a conference call with financial analysts that within the next two month, Microsoft plans to […]
The Windows Home Server Challenge continues on internet television channel Tekzilla. This weeks episode has viewers questions which will be followed next week by the WHS benchmarks and the real world differences between 100Mbps and 1000Mbps gigabit Ethernet speed. The part on Windows Home Server starts approx 21 minutes into the video which you can […]
The latest update for Windows Home Server (KB961030) is available and will be automatically deployed via Windows/Microsoft Update. This February 2009 update resolves 3 issues with Windows Home Server: If the Home Server Connector shared software folder had been improperly modified or deleted then the user may have encountered problems on their home computers after […]
If you are running version 1.0.2.28 (Beta 3) or version 1.0.3.30 (Final Release) of the add-in WHS Outlook or have tried these versions in the past then you may need to install the latest version or do some registry editing. NOTE: The problem has now been corrected in version 1.0.3.31 and higher. You can identify […]
Another build list, this one by Carlo Mendoza which is currently enclosure free and is based around the DQ45EK mini-ITX board which offers cool, compact and silent operation and is also low power. Read it here.
Another great article for owners of HPs EX485/487 is on accessing your media remotely. The five page tutorial takes you through the various steps for enabling remote access, including adding users, configuring your router and how to setup the dynamic domain name service. This is all concluded with troubleshooting procedures in case you may need […]
Carl Tyler bought a Drobo and Droboshare last year and told a Microsoft friend that he thought a Drobo combined with a Windows Home Server (WHS) could make a great device, his friend rightly replied that WHS did all that Drobo did and more. A few days later at home was a HP MediaSmart EX470, […]
A couple of articles which caught my eye today, the first being another Windows Home Server build list with the requirement of being low energy and cheap. The build list is here. The second article is blogger Tim Heuer’s review of the EX487 Home Server from HP. You can read it here.
The Home Server Show website has a great post on how to run HP Upline from inside the Windows Home Server console. HP Upline allows unlimited secure online backup. It’s not designed to run in Windows Home Server, but following this tutorial will allow you to do so. You can read it here.
