Episode 135 of The Home Server Show podcast is available with the weeks WHS news and views and this week, ripping options and everything surrounding DVD storage and streaming. You can find episode 135 here.
If you are installing WHS 2011 and have a French keyboard, then the keyboard layout may be incorrectly changed to that of an English keyboard. To resolve this problem you will need to manually change the keyboard layout to French on the language bar by performing the following steps on the server itself by using […]
Sean Briscoe tells us about his custom WHS2011 build after coming from the HP MediaSmart. Sean explains how he arranged his folder structure and setup a RAID 1 array for his Documents, Music and Pictures and is using RAID 5 for his video content and client computer backups. You can read his post here.
TomOnTech explains how to remove your Mac from being connected to Windows Home Server 2011. Tom explains why you may want to do this: “If you’re like me and have multiple servers that all use the same type of connector software and are testing things out or just want to remove your Mac from being […]
A user on the MediaSmartServer.net forums monitors his Home Server by using the hard drive monitoring and analysis tool Hard Disk Sentinel with a Windows Desktop gadget. With this gadget it enables him to view information from HD Sentinel on his client PC. Its a little difficult to setup but luckily for us instructions are […]
If you are not in the US and have been trying to access the online evaluation experience for WHS 2011 than you may have experienced problems trying to access it. The Evaluation Guide asks you to log into the user account screen and the Dashboard using the password "pass@word1", but upon doing so I got […]
Microsoft have just launched the online evaluation experience for WHS 2011. As Microsoft stated on its launch, there would be no evaluation media or download for WHS2011 as was the case for v1, but this time a virtual experience would be made available for users to demo and experience the product, in the following areas: […]
Family Diary is a suit of applications to allow you to set up a database of appointments and contacts for family and friends. Currently the suit consists of the Windows Service, a Windows client application, an Outlook Add-in, a Windows Phone 7 application and a Windows Home Server Add-in. All the applications in the Family […]
Transfer-Manager is an add-in for WHS2011 which enables you to make your Home Server the central transfer station for all your up and download needs. The add-in is currently in beta and a new build is released every Sunday with new bug fixes and new functions. Build 0.5.410 from the 8th May adds the following […]
Episode 265 of the Hanselminutes Podcast is all about Windows Home Server and network attached storage. Host Scott Hanselman and guest Travis Illig talk about NAS options, their Windows Home server’s which they both own, Drobo and the Synology DS1010/DS1511 Home Storage System. Travis explains why using Western Digital green drives in a server capacity […]
