Archive for January, 2011

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The Lacie 5big Backup Server at CES

DigitalTrends.com went to CES and had a look at the LaCie 5big Backup Server which uses Windows Home Server  The guys also have a short video on their site demonstrating the Vail Windows Phone 7 Add-In, which we wrote about the other day, which you can find here.  And although Lacie have not released any […]

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Matts Deal of the Week

Deal of the Week 13th January 2011 Have you spotted any good deals this week? Let me know and we can share it with everyone, email me matthewglover @ mswhs.com! Last week’s first post of Deal of the Week was a great success; many people have been letting me know about some of the great […]

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CES 2011 In Pictures

CES has fininished for another year in Las Vegas, with no major news from the event for Home Server fans apart from the announcement of Vail Windows Phone 7 Add-In. If you couldn’t make it this year here are some pics from CES 2011 courtesy of fellow MVP Alexander Kent.    

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Ask Matt: your questions answered

Mailbag 12th January 2011 Blu-ray drive and ripping software for WHS Can I restore files from a failed WHS hard drive? Is it possible to have no data on my WHS hard drive? Have a question or problem? I can’t guarantee an answer, but I’ll try. Click “ask a question” above! It has been a […]

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Dynamic DNS Temporary Outage Notification

The service providing free domain name resolution for Windows Home Server users gets an upgrade today. The service will be moving from the Live platform to Azure providing a bigger infrastructure to allow future growth. Also outages should be a thing of the past. The update will take unto 24 hours to complete and during […]

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How to Extend the Vail Expiry Date

As we informed you last week, today is the day when the Windows Home Server Vail beta expires, and moves into Windows Server 2008 R2 Expiry mode where the server reboots hourly.  No data will be lost during an expiry, and users will still be able to access the server if needed to. Since the […]

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Vail Windows Phone 7 Add-In

Joel Burt is part of the Windows Home Server team at Microsoft who has been at CES in Las Vegas demonstrating what’s in store for Windows Phone 7 users come the next version, “Vail” courtesy of a soon to be released add-in. The Vail add-in for Windows Phone 7 adds a new feature onto Windows […]

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Vail Deep Dive Video

Microsoft’s OEM training website has a zipped video on “Vail” available for download. The title may be a handful, but Windows Home Server Code Name “Vail”: Product and OPK Deep Dive​, is worth a watch. Here is how the OEM site describes the video: View demonstrations of new functionality in the preview version of Windows […]

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Vail to be called Windows 7 Home Server

On display at CES is the LaCie 5Big Backup Server featured in the Windows PC showcase, but instead oh having v1 of Windows Home Server installed upon it this one has Windows 7 Home Server. A Microsoft representative also confirmed to website "i started something" that Windows 7 Home Server was indeed the official name […]

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Vail Expiring So Move Your Data

On the 10th January the beta version of Vail will expire making the server unavailable or making it shutdown every hour. Since there is no workaround for this it is important that you move any data which you wish to save off of your Vail server before Jan 10th. A new build of Vail will […]