Fellow MVP Boon Tee has released the first book on WS2012 Essentials, entitled "An Administrator’s Guide to Windows Server 2012 Essentials". The 190 page eBook is a step by step guide for administrators and IT Professionals who are deploying, installing, configuring and managing Windows Server 2012 Essentials. Here are the details: The book takes a […]
Thanks to fellow MVP Tim Barrett who let us know about a great deal on the HP ProLiant N40L MicroServer plus a bundled USB 3 card. The price is currently $329.99 or just $264.99 after a $65 MIR. A great deal which you can find here.
Drive Bender for WHS 2011, SBS Essentials 2011 and WS2012 Essentials has been updated to version 1.4.6.5. This latest release has the following changes: Update: Improved license validation to prevent license activation issues. Bug fix: BSOD can occur under some extreme conditions. Update: Upon boot, Drive Bender now forces a refresh of the Windows volume […]
Another users shares his experience with WS2012 Essentials. User ViRGE tells us the hardware he used in his build as well as his install process and finally explains why he used Storage Spaces and ReFS. An interesting observation of using WS2012 Essentials, which you can find here.
The HP and Microsoft blog "Coffee Coaching" have details and a video on HP hardware for Windows Server 2012 Essentials. The HP ProLiant ML310e Gen8 and HP ProLiant ML350e Gen8 Server are both taken a look at. You can find more details here.
Trend Micro has released Trend Micro Worry-Free Business Security Services for Windows Server 2012 Essentials. Here’s part of the press release (full press release is available here): Trend Micro Incorporated, a global cloud security leader, today (Jan 8) is addressing the increasingly complex threat landscape small businesses face due to the impact of mobile devices […]
Website Lifehacker is doing an online reader poll by asking the question do you run a Home Server or NAS? So far with nearly 7,000 votes server and NAS are neck and neck at 32% whilst using both gets 20% of the votes and neither just 15% of the votes. You can cast your vote […]
The Windows Server Essentials and Small Business Server Blog has a blog post on "Web Services and Extensibility for Windows Server 2012 Essentials". Mike Chen the program manager for the Windows Server Essentials team, shares the extensibility story for Windows Server 2012 Essentials: I’ll start with an overview of the extensibility points across Dashboard, Launchpad, […]
Episode 108 of the BYOB podcast is up: The guys are joined by JPEG2RAW host Mike Howard this week to discuss his Windows 8 media center. We talk a bit about our desires for CES. We’ll also touch on custom routing vs consumers solutions. Its the all Mike edition of the BYOB Podcast. You can […]
The beta release of StableBit DrivePool for WHS 2011, SBS 2011 Essentials and Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials has had an update. Here is the change log for version 1.3.0.7319 BETA: Added pool selection dialog, when multiple pools are present and user clicks ‘Add a folder to the pool’. Added a "Identify disk" task […]
