Archive for December, 2011

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The BYOB Podcast Episode 71

The BYOB podcast is up and on this weeks episode: SkyDrive for iOS and WP7 reviewed An exploration into ESXi as a virtualization platform Initial impressions of the Fractal design Define R3 case HTC Titan/Focus S/iPhone4S/Skyrocket comments The new dashboard for XBOX Plus lots more on episode 71 of the BYOB podcast.

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The Snow was Falling on a Christmas Eve

The snow was falling on a Christmas Eve All crisp and crunchy I hardly couldn’t believe Delivering presents is Santa, I am waiting to receive In his sack a Home Server, a surprise for some one new It may not have Drive Extender but 2011 will have to do To Backup PCs and a Mac […]

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Hitachi First to Market 4TB Hard Drive

It appears that Hitachi are coming out with an internal 4TB hard drive as part of its Deskstar line of drives. Its the first 4TB HDD and was spotted on the Akiba PC Watch website selling for 26,800 yen (approx. $343). The 0S03361 drive has 32MB of cache, a SATA 6Gbps interface and has Hitachi’s […]

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30% Off PerfectDisk 12 Home Server

For 2 days only if you use the coupon code MERRY30 at raxco.com you can get 30% off of the listed price of $39.99 for PerfectDisk 12 Home Server. That brings the cost of this defragmentation tool for Windows Home Server users down to $27.77 – That’s a great saving! More details on PerfectDisk Home […]

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A Perfect Home Server

Eric Rux tells us about his perfect Home Server. He accomplished this by purchasing a HP StorageWorks X310 Home Server and updating it with WHS 2011, installing the Drive Extender type add-in Drive Bender and finally finishing it up with an install of Orb: “I now have the perfect Home Server: Home Server 2011 running […]

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Connecting WHS to the Web through two Routers

Gunnar Peipman’s has a post on how to get Windows Home Server to work with the Microsoft subdomain (http://something.homeserver.com) if it is not connected directly to a router that has access to web. In his post he explains how to set up the router and subdomain: “It was not hard to get Windows Home Server […]

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Seasonal Fun

Its getting very close to Christmas, and as Santa gets ready to deliver pressies to those of you who have been nice this year, we thought we would tell you about the following seasonal fare: Google Snow – If you type the words let it snow into the Google search box snow flakes will start […]

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The Home Server Show Podcast Episode 166

Its the pre-Christmas episode of The Home Server Show podcast. And in this weeks 45 minute episode its Microservers, CES and Microsoft, hard drives, and more. You can catch episode 166 here.

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Office 365 Integration Module for SBS 2011 Essentials Released

After nearly a couple of months of being in beta the Office 365 Integration Module for Windows SBS 2011 Essentials (OIM) has been released today. Available for free from the Microsoft Download Center the OIM allows customers using SBS 2011 Essentials to run the core technology services they need on-premise and easily integrate with Office […]

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Add-In: PerfectDisk Home Server v12.5 Build 309

PerfectDisk the defragmentation tool for Windows Home Server users has had an update. Version 12.5 Build 309 includes the following 12 changes: Updated group policy administrative template files (.adm, .admx, .adml). Setting of the next run date in scheduling has been fixed. Modified “About” dialog. Scheduling in PD 12.5 Professional (Consumer version) has been updated […]