Archive for December, 2012

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The Home Server Show Podcast Episode 208

Its another week and its time for another episode of "The home Server Show" podcast. This week its episode 208: Update Rollup 4 is out for Windows Home Server 2011 and John, Jim, and Dave are here to dissect it.  There are new Microservers, Drobo 5N, Western Digital Sentinal, 6 watt processors, you name it! […]

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Smart Restore for Amazon Glacier with CloudBerry Backup

The latest release of CloudBerry Backup v 3.2 has Smart Restore functionality built in for Amazon Glacier, which allows you to manage your data restore in an intelligent way: When you run a Restore Wizard for Glacier and select the data to restore it will estimate the total restore size and the associated costs. It […]

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Add-In: iHomeServer (for iTunes) v2.2.23.0

The v2 BETA build of iHomeServer (for iTunes) has had an update. Version 2.2.23.0 can be downloaded from here. The current features being tested in the pre-release versions include: •2.2.3.0: Internet metadata lookups from The Movie DB, The TV DB.com and tagChimp •2.2.3.0: Auto-tagging of movies in watch folders (optional) •2.2.3.0: Rapid Auto-tagging of TV […]

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HP N40L ProLiant MicroServer

HP have published the specs of the new N54L ProLiant MicroServer, in a 21 page PDF file. Here’s the overview: Processor: AMD Turion™ II Neo N54L (2.2GHz) AMD RS785E/SB820M chipset Memory: Two (2) DIMM slots 2GB (1x2GB) Standard or 4GB (1x4GB)/8GB Maximum, using PC3-10600E DDR3 Unbuffered (UDIMM) ECC memory, operating at max. 800MHz Storage Controller: […]

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Update Rollup 4 (UR4) for WHS 2011 Available

Update Rollup 4 (UR4) for Window Home Server 2011, SBS 2011 Essentials and Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials has been released, and is being distributed via Windows Update. So what’s new? Well for WHS 2011, Microsoft KB Article 2757011 lists the following 10 major issues which have been fixed in this release: Issue 1 When […]

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Add-In: Drive Bender v1.4.5.0

Drive Bender has released version 1.4.5.0 of their Drive Extender type add-in for users of WHS 2011, SBS Essentials 2011 and Server 2012 Essentials. Here’s the change log: Update: The Getting started wizard now offers to add more drives to a newly created pool. Bug fix: When adding a pool, it was possible that the […]

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How To Rejoin a Client Computer to WS 2012 Essentials

If you are using WS2012 Essentials you may experience a problem when trying to rejoin a client computer to a WSE 2012 Domain: The NETBIOS name of the client computer was left the same and the client could communicate with the server in order to download the connector software but the connector installation would fail […]

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Microsoft Online Backup Service Setup

"Microsoft Online Backup Service", may be a old post, but its a good one. The post on the Windows Server Blog explains in detail how to setup and configure the Microsoft Online Backup Service. From registering for the service, setting up the backup schedule to recovering your data. Its a comprehensive tutorial which you can […]

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Making a UEFI Bootable USB Drive for WS 2012 Essentials

ServeTheHome have an article on making a UEFI Bootable USB Drive for Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012, which will equally work with WS2012 Essentials. Since most UEFI motherboard’s can only boot from FAT32 and not NTFS, this guide can come in handy to getting your USB drive setup for Ws2012e installation. You can find […]

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The Home Server Show Podcast Episode 207

Its time for another episode of “The Home Server Show” podcast, and this week it’s episode 207: …We are going to go over a few things about CES but we also have a deal to make with you. It is the season for CES so we have to talk a little about it. We promise […]