During a San Francisco press event yesterday Microsoft announced that a public beta of Windows 8 would be available sometime in late February 2012. This is great news but it looks like it will miss a release at CES 2012 in January next year. Hopefully Microsoft will demo a near final beta copy at this […]
Small Business Server enthusiast Robert Pearman has posted his experiences with the Office 365 Integration Module for SBS 2011 Essentials. Robert’s post is broken down into the following 11 sections: Installation & Sign Up Password Policy Dashboard Integration Add Domain Wizard & Domain Verification Managing User Accounts & Password Sync Remote Web Access Integration Log […]
If you don’t wish to purchase software that enables you to host your iTunes application as a service on your Windows Home Server then why not manually get it setup for free. G. Wade takes us through the steps to get iTunes setup on your WHS machine in 8 easy steps which you can follow […]
Episode 68 of the BYOB podcast is up and this week there is a review of the Western Digital DX4000 which provides Windows Storage Server 2011 R2 Essentials, a look at WHS 2011 on Acronis’s new product True Image Home 2012 and the WDTV Live Hub is revisited. Lots of interesting content in episode 68, […]
DeviceMAG has an article on the advantages of NOS (network operating system) over P2P using Windows Home Server 2011. The article starts of by explaining the differences between a P2P and an NOS network, and how it can fit in your home network. Its an interesting read which you can find here.
My Movies for Windows Home Server 2011 has had an update. My Movies for Windows Home Server is a special build of My Movies specifically for Windows Home Server. It can function as a My Movies server for My Movies clients, or it can function as a data provider for Media Center’s movie library, media […]
Another week and another episode of The Home Server Show podcast is up. This weeks episode has: “News on the home server front, CES, Black Friday, HP’s Microserver, and John’s dead MediaSmart Server.” You can find episode 163 here.
You may remember DA Document Manager, an add-in for Windows Home Server v1 users to help them organize their documents. Now thanks to our friend Bob Crook we can inform you that a version is being worked on for WHS 2011: Because the new version of WHS is a complete rewrite, it has taken much […]
iHomeServer for iTunes is an application that runs iTunes as a service on Windows Home Server both v1 and WHS 2011. iTunes normally runs as a desktop application which requires you to be logged into your desktop at all times in order to play music or video remotely. Many people are now using Home Sharing […]
The DE type add-in for WHS 2011 users has had an update. Version 1.2.2.0 of Drive Bender includes the following changes: Update: Many improvements to file duplication, including a more verbose duplication feature. Bug fix: Under certain conditions a networked connection to a Drive Bender mounted drive can be dropped by Windows. This is the […]
