If you are running the current version of Drive Bender then the license is due to expire the end of September. If this affects you, then head over to Drive Bender to get a new license.
Episode 153 of The Home Server Show podcast is up and ready for you: This episode contains two big debates. The first is should you use an SSD drive as your Windows Home Server operating system drive. The second is running Windows Home Server in a virtual environment or running other servers in a VM […]
Paul Thurrott has stated that although Drive Extender was a good idea, it’s implementation wasn’t exactly enterprise-ready: …after testing this technology on its new-generation small business servers, Microsoft discovered it wasn’t compatible with many server apps and didn’t work reliably. So it was scrapped, to the chagrin of Windows Home Server fans, many of whom […]
DVBLink v4 has a patch for TVSource which fixes jerky TRL4 (HD) playback and some server stability issues. Full fix list: DVBLink server crashes in tvsource.dll or tvsource_info.dll when system has more than 8 tuners RTL4 (HD) jerky playback Weak TVSignal / dvblink server crash when one or more sources are playing TV and another […]
The Orbital Backup Configuration Add-In is a Mac OS X Time Machine Backup for Windows Home Server 2011, Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials and Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials users. The free add-in eases the configuration burden of setting up an Apple Mac computer’s Time Machine to use a backup location on the […]
Its great news to hear that Windows Home Server both v1 and the 2011 version both support Windows 8 just fine. If you have tried Windows 8 with Home Server, what have been your experiences backing up Windows 8 to your Windows Home Server?
Episode 59 of the BYOB podcast is available: “This week our guest is Greg Welch (Welchworks). We go over his extensive and impressive home network that include WHS servers, Hyper-V virtual machines, HTPCs, Home Automation and more on this weeks BYOB Podcast.” You can find this weeks episode here.
Drive Bender version 1.1.8.4 is here which hopefully puts the folder locking issue to bed. Here’s the change log: Bug fix: When adding, merging or removing a drive to / from the pool, the process could hang and not complete. Bug fix: When upgrading an XP x64 platform, the drivers may not get updated correctly. […]
Using Turkey Club sandwiches as examples, D-Link explain the difference between RAID 0 and RAID 1. If you have a hard job defining these two different RAID systems then this D-Link video is a must see…oh and by the way, I will never look at a Club sandwich in the same light again!
The Windows 8 edition of The Home Server Show podcast is up. The Windows 8 preview is available and it’s an exciting time for Microsoft so we go hands on with it and see how well it plays with Windows Home Server. We discuss the product as well as the newly announced Windows Server 8 […]
