Archive for August, 2013

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The Home Tech Podcast Episode 133

Another fine episode of the Home Tech podcast is up: We spent the majority of the show talking about how John (Zajdler) is using Windows To Go on a 32GB Data Traveler Workspace drive from Kingston.  We get an update from Paul (Baran) on the new release from VMware ESXi 5.5 just announced at VMWorld […]

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StableBit DrivePool and Antivirus Programs

If you are using WHS2011 with StableBit DrivePool and wish to to install an antivirus program then there’s a few things you will have consider. Eset NOD32 and Microsoft Security Essentials are 2 good products to install on WHS (only one at a time though) but make sure that you exclude the drives in the […]

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The Home Server Show Podcast Episode 235

Episode 235 of the Home Server Show is up and this week its mostly about their upcoming meetup: It’s a light week of news but Jim is back and I’m recovering from last week’s awesome show with the SBS Diva.  This week we are talking Synology, Meetup, and my new T-shirt. Yes, a shirt.   You’ll […]

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Video: WS2012 Essentials for Resellers

The OEM division of Microsoft have released the following short video explaining WS2012 Essentials:

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Performance of a Storage Space Pool in WS2012 Essentials R2 Preview

John Stutsman has posted data of the performance of a Storage Space Pool in Windows Server 2012 Essentials R2 Preview. In this second part of the series John has posted the results of his findings, plus he has a 12 minute video explaining how to create a Storage Space Pool in Windows Server 2012 Essentials […]

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Video: Inside the Gen8 MicroServer

Another video from the Microsoft/HP channel"Coffee Coaching" on the HP Gen8 MicroServer. In this vid they take a quick look under the hood and give more details on the small server: More details are available from here.

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The BYOB Podcast Episode 130

Episode 130 of the BYOB podcast is up for this week: We have a bunch of topics to cover tonight.  We  talk about some RAID 0, Essentials upgrade, update on the Nexus 7, Untangle, and memory timings as well as spend a few minutes discussing our thoughts on the retirement of Steve Ballmer. Interesting stuff […]

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Add-In: StableBit DrivePool v2.0.0.387 BETA

StableBit DrivePool have released version 2.0.0.387 BETA for users of Windows Server 2012 Essentials. This latest build has the following change log: Increased the default size of the main window to 750×300. Fixed installation script for Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials. [D] Fixed a memory leak of a few bytes when fully unloading the virtual […]

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The Home Server Show Podcast Episode 234

Its time for another episode of "The Home Server show Podcast": It’s just under one hour but it’s full of Essentials goodness. Tonight the SBSDiva, Susan Bradley, joins me to talk Essentials 2012 R2, Update Rollup 3, Server 2012, Enterprise, Small Business, and a little bit of Windows Home Server! I show off a $129 […]

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FREE Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview Release eBook

The ‘Introducing Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview Release’ book from Microsoft Press is now available as a free download and is a great way for you to see what’s new in Windows Server 2012 R2. You can download the 108 page PDF from here: http://aka.ms/IntroWinServ2012R2Preview/PDFebook