PC Pro have just reviewed the Acer easyStore H340, where it got 5 stars out of 6 as its overall rating. Not the most energy-efficient server, but well specified and comparatively affordable You can read their review here.
Brent Friedman has been busy updating WHS Mobile and has released details of what is to come in version 1.5.3.4, which should be available within a couple of weeks. The three major changes are push notifications of server alerts/health, being able to create shares from the device and video streaming. Alerts from push notification will […]
How do you backup the Windows Home Server data itself? One option is to use an external hard drive and the How-To Geek takes us through the process of adding the external drive and how to remove it afterwards. You can read their tutorial here.
CloudBerry Online Backup for Windows Home Server has been updated to version 1.4 with the following new features: Ability to use different S3 accounts/buckets for backup plans Ability to delete files from S3 on Backup Storage tab Notification email enhancements Ability to run service as Administrator – important for WHS Drive Extender support Chunk size […]
Redec Syslog is a simple syslog server add-in which enables Windows Home Server to become a syslog server for your network devices and receivers. Syslog is a standard for forwarding log messages within an IP network and is typically used for computer system management and security auditing. In my case I wanted my Linksys WRT54GL […]
Here’s a quote from from Martign Brant, a Dutch IT pro which I picked up the other week from Twitter. I had to post it as it nicely sums up a new new users experience with Home Server:
The Home Server Show has a post for Outlook users which shows you how to publish your Outlook calendars using the WebDAV capability of the Windows Home Server. WebDAV is a protocol used to publish content to the IIS web server which is built into Home Server and also enables you to manage that content […]
If you are building your own home server you might have a hard disk controller that isn’t supported by Windows Home Server. It could be a RAID device that you will use in drive only mode or it might be a unit that is quite new and the drivers are not built into the installation […]
Larry Lentz has a great story where his wife accidentally wiped the contents of an important Note she was keeping in Outlook, but since the Windows Home Server went in at Christmas, Larry was able to to recover Outlook’s OST file in a couple of minutes. Larry takes us through the steps here.
The Computer Techno website has a brief history of Windows Home Server from its incarnation in late 2007 through the Power Packs to Windows Home Server v2. The post also takes a look at the various manufacturers providing WHS hardware. You can read it here.
