WHS enthusiast Richard Hay explains the critical steps necessary when preparing to do your own hardware upgrade on your Home Server. From the final backup before upgrading to bios setup for the new motherboard and finally restarting the discovery process, Richard takes you through the process which you can read about here.
Joe’s backups started to fail on his Windows Home Server, with the following message: "The computer failed to take a snapshot of the volume for backup." Joe found out that the error was due to his Windows 7 PC not having enough free space on the system reserved partition, with the solution to expand this […]
The add-in WHS Thumbnailer has been updated to version 1.0.0.3 Beta. The thumbnail generator for Windows Home Server includes the following changes (28 May 2010): Fixed a bug where thumbnails would overwrite files with existing names if already present More prep work for localization REALLY increased maximum thumbnail dimensions to 2048 * 2048 this time! […]
Tech Evangelist Richard Hay has a great post on how Windows Home Server just keeps on working. I am here today to tell you that WHS just keeps on keeping on. Without much interference from me it sits in the corner of our home office and backs up each PC at night and is the […]
A Windows Home Server enthusiast wanted to add a SI3114 SATA controller to his Home server to add its 4 SATA ports to the system. Apart from the problem trying to find the appropriate driver for this particular Silicon Image controller card he also had the card froze his WHS at a prompt that said […]
Episode 258 of "The Media Center Show" has host Ian Dixon talking to David Thompson from UK based Tranquil PC about their Home Server and Media Center machines. A great episode which you can listen to here.
The latest Home Server Show podcast is available with Home Server news from John, Chris and Dave as well as add-in chat and some craziness too. You can listen to episode 92 here.
Version 3.0 beta 1 of DVBLink is available for testing – The software which enables you to add tuner cards to Windows Home Server. The main feature added to this release is transcoded streaming to internet browsers. TV is streamed using Windows Media format and works both for internet and intranet although 5 consequitive ports […]
Home Server Land has put up a teaser picture on their Wall in Facebook of a new add-in called WHS Folding. Folding@home is a distributed computing project which help scientists studying protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases by you simply running a piece of software on your PC, and in this case on your Windows […]
A new version of AdminiMe for Windows Home Server is available. The add-in constantly monitors your server in the background, without you having to do anything and will notify you in case something goes wrong. Update Release-1 includes the following fixes: APP:CA002 Cpu Analyzer Index (zero based) must be greater than or equal to zero […]
