After a week of no news for Windows Home Server users, the Home Server Show is back with episode 240, and this week it’s about Antivirus on WHS: We are talking antivirus AGAIN for Windows Home Server. There is a nasty virus called CryptoLocker and I’ll tell you the details and how to stay away […]
newegg TV have WD explaining about their Red NAS Hard Drives: If you’re into mass storage, and particularly if you’re interested in NAS or server storage, WD has a lineup of drives made just for you. The WD Red series is designed for reliability and data integrity within a Network Attached Storage system, and WD […]
WHS 2011 Media Collector is a replacement for the HP Media Collector that was included with the HP MediaSmart Server and, unfortunately, not ported to WHS 2011. Made by "Viros", here are some notes: It assumes (and in fact only works on) the standard media folders (i.e., SERVER\Music, etc). Upon installation, you need to run […]
Microsoft have released the Windows Server Essentials Media Pack. This pack enables the media streaming functionality for Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials and the Windows Server Essentials Experience server role in Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard and Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter. This functionality was available before the R2 release from within the program, and […]
Tom on Tech has published a how-to on installing Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) on Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials. Tom has available a 22 page PDF on how to accomplish this, which you can find here. P.S. To configure your client workstations to connect to WSUS, it is highly recommended to use Group Policy. […]
If you would like to beta test the Lights-Out Mobile Client for windows RT and Windows 8 then the developer would like to hear from you. So if you would like to do this, send an email to beta at homeserversoftware dot com to apply.
If you would like to try out Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials, then a 180 day trial has become available at the TechNet Evaluation Center. This is a great way for you to test this latest version of WS2012 Essentials for 6 months and if you decide to purchase there is no need to reinstall […]
The latest episode of the Home Server Show podcast is up: “A lot to cover in a short amount of time on this show. New gear and a lot of media related topics tonight. I almost forget the lead! A new bare metal backup option is available for you although it will be for a […]
Microsoft’s Elden Christensen discusses the storage features in Windows Server 2012 R2. Jeff James from the Petri IT Knowledgebase had the opportunity of interviewing Elden, and the transcript can be found here.
As a follow up from part 1, the second part of "A First Look at Windows Server 2012 R2 Storage" has been published. This second part goes into creating a Storage Pool and creating a Virtual Hard Disk alongside it, which you can find here.
