Should I keep running Windows Home Server even though Microsoft discontinued it? That’s the question Leo Laporte answered on "The Tech Guy!" show, which you can view in this video:
In a new study only 10% of adults backup their files daily and men are more likely to backup than women are. Seagate and Harris Interactive conducted a survey of 2,205 U.S. adults of which 90% felt their digital content is valuable, but 30% of women surveyed do not back up their files at all. […]
If you have a HP MediaSmart Server would you like to install Windows Server 2012 Essentials onto it? If so then VieuxJules a user on the MediaSmartServer.net forums has already done so and tells us his experience of doing so in a 5 step process. First impressions: most notable benefit is Spaces (kind of an […]
The Windows Server Essentials and Small Business Server Blog has an article on Growing Beyond 25 Users with Windows Server 2012 Essentials. As you are probably now aware the new WS2012e allows up to 25 users instead of Home Server’s 10, but what do you do if you have more than 25 users? You transition […]
Microsoft have but up a Wiki article on Mac Mountain Lion Compatibility With Windows Home Server 2011, Small Business Server 2011 Essentials and Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials. The article highlights the following 2 issues: An error message pops up when deploying connector: “’Connector for Mac’ can’t be opened because it is from an […]
This weeks episode of the BYOB podcast is up. And in this weeks episode for the build your own box enthusiasts: “This weeks BYOB Podcast is joined this week by John Wills and John Zadjler. We’ll discuss the Corsair 550D Case, Silex USB over IP, ASRock Z77 and Ivy Bridge 3570K, an Onkyo Receiver. John […]
Website Title (Required) have a post about running a Windows Server 2012 Essentials VPN without port 1723. Its completed via through the Anywhere Access wizard by clicking on Virtual private network (VPN): “Just put a tick in that box, and that is literally all you need to do. You don’t need to open any additional […]
Drive Bender for WHS 2011 has had an update. Version 1.3.5.0 contains some updates and fixes from the v2 development branch. Here’s the full change log: Bug fix: User security can have issues with some extended characters. Bug fix: Removing a user from the user security list could fail. Bug fix: The "file in use" […]
If you are a WHS 2011 user then Drive Bender are ending their introductory offer for Home Server users on the 10th August. The offer includes the Home Edition of Drive Bender with life time support and maintenance for $20 saving 50% off the regular price of $40 You can grab the offer from here.
Tinkertry tells us that the slow backups and restores of WHSv1 and WHS 2011 have seemingly been addressed in Windows Server 2012 Essentials. According to Microsoft’s Ning Kuang who told Tinkertry: “We were able to improve the performance by increasing the data size of the disk I/O operations. It is great to see customer appreciate […]
