Archive for February, 2011

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The Home Server Show Podcast Episode 123

The latest episode of The Home Server Show has news on Windows Home Server 2011, add-ins, Virtual Machines, Worm Holes plus lots more. That’s episode 123 which you can find here.

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Building a WHS with Muscle

"How-To Build a Windows Home Server with Muscle (but no Drive Extender)" is an updated version of an article which was written at Maximum PC: The next generation of Windows Home Server enables video streaming and transcoding operations, so we built a WHS system that can handle the load Their build list totals short of […]

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Adding Low Cost Redundancy to WHS

Microsoft have another video in their  Learning Bites series on how to add some very low cost and easy to implement redundancy for your data using software raid which is available from the underlying Windows Server 2008R2 operating system. This allows you to continue using the server until you are able to schedule a maintenance […]

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Storing Live Writer’s Posts on WHS

If you use the blog writing software Windows Live Writer then did you know that there is a way of fooling it, so you can store both your drafts and published posts on your Windows Home Server enabling you to access them on any computer on your home network or via the WHS remote access […]

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Hard Drive Failing Noises

Every hard drive makes a certain noise before it is about to fail and every brand and even models within that brand make slightly different noises. Luckily for us data recovery company Data Cent has put together a catalogue of drive failing noises from the likes of Western Digital, Seagate, Maxtor, Samsung etc which is […]

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WHS2011 – The Video Collection

If like me you prefer to watch instead of reading about Windows Home Server 2011 then we have some great videos for you, 11 to be exact which should keep you busy for a while First up here is a video of “almost” everything that is “click-able” in Windows Home Server 2011 courtesy of the […]

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Why a Microsoft Employee Uses WHS V2

Keen amateur photographer and Microsoft employee Sean Daniel tells us why he shall be using the new Windows Home Server 2011. Sean tells us that removing DE was a very tough decision, but why he agrees with its removal given what he knows (and he should know more than all of us since he works […]

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Add-In: AWIECO RemoteLauncher 0.9.0 RC

The add-in AWIECO RemoteLauncher is now available for Windows Home Sever 2011 RC and Small Business Server 2011 Essentials RC. The free add-in enables you to manage your server remotely and enables you to access predefined System Tools like:  Windows Explorer Commandline Event Viewer Services Control Panel Computer Manager Device Manager Registry Editor Task Manager […]

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The Home Server Show Podcast Episode 122

The Home Server Show podcast this week is naturally all about the availability of the Release Candidate of Windows Home Server 2011. Plus of course the weeks news and views from Dave and the gang on all things Home Server. Episode 122 is available from here.

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SBS 2011 Essentials RC Available

With all the excitement of Windows Home Server 2011 RC being released yesterday it nearly slipped under our radar that the RC of Small Business Server 2011 Essentials (also known as codename Aurora) also became available too. Ideal as a first server for small businesses with up to 25 users, you can learn more by […]