There’s a great 11 minute video on Windows Server Storage Spaces from the launch event is available for watching. This video is a great watch for those of you who are going to be using Windows Server 2012 Essentials and it’s Storage Spaces feature. You can watch it here.
HP have released a technical white paper on implementing Windows Server 2012 Essentials on ProLiant servers. The white-paper looks at pre-installation tasks and tells us how to install WS2012e onto a ProLiant server and describes known issues and workarounds. You can download the PDF directly here.
Episode 196 of The Home Server Show podcast is up: “It’s another episode that is full of information, links, and news. Servers, NAS, software, deals, freebies, and phones.” You can find episode 196 here.
Microsoft have released Health Report, an add-in for Windows Server 2012 Essentials. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34599 Generating a system health report was one of the popular customer requests in early Beta review. With "Health Report" you will see a automatically generated report that summarizes the health of your server and can be sent to a specified email allowing […]
If you are running Windows Server 2012 Essentials then any connected PC which is running Pro/Enterprise/Ultimate SKUs of Windows 7/8 will automatically be joined to the domain. Not so good for us previous Home Server users – But there is now a temporary workaround thanks to a registry key. Before we continue remember this only […]
Of interest to us Home Server enthusiasts is an article from the How-To-Geek on how Windows 8’s backup system differs from that in Windows 7: Windows 8 contains a completely revamped backup system. Windows 8’s File History replaces Windows 7’s Windows Backup – if you use Windows Backup and update to Windows 8, you’ll find […]
Microsoft have published evaluation editions of Windows Storage Server 2012 in their Download Centre. Windows Storage Server 2012 is Microsoft’s advanced storage and file serving solution which is available as a 3.3 GB ISO file. You can download the eval from here.
A user over at the TekForums has posted a Purchase, Upgrade & Setup Guide for the HP Proliant MicroServer with some interesting links and tip bits. Here’s a look at the list of contents: 1. Initial Purchase 1.1 – Specification 1.2 – Purchasing 1.3 – Warranty 1.4 – Additional accessories […]
Paul Thurrott gives us his opinion on WHS 2011 and Windows Server 2012 Essentials and why he thinks average consumers or very small businesses will not flock to Microsoft’s latest solution: …I don’t think average consumers or very small businesses will flock to this solution any more than they did to WHS. Though inexpensive by […]
With the launch of Windows Server 2012 earlier today Microsoft has made available 4 videos which you can earn points by watching and you can also play "The Launch Game" and play this week’s Trivia Challenge to earn extra points too for a chance of winning some prizes. Microsoft has made available a 180-day trial […]
