Archive for August, 2014

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The Home Server Show Podcast Episode 266

After a break the Home Server Show is back with episode 266: The Home Server Show is back after a little time off. Thanks for coming back too! Jim and I discuss unlimited backup to cloud services, news, 6TB Drives, and a whole lot more. All good stuff as usual which you can find here.

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Office 365 and Azure AD Can Now be Enabled in a Multi DC Environment

The Windows August update released this patch Tuesday includes a patch for WS2012 Essentials R2 which now allows Office 365 and Windows Azure Active Directory to be enabled in a multi domain controller (DC) environment. Here are the details from Microsoft: In Windows Server Essentials 2012 R2, all of our online services integration features, including […]

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Cooling and Graphics from the HP MicroServer

John Stutsman has released 2 more videos detailing his antics with his HP MicroServer’s. In his first vid John adds fans to cool the heat sink on the Gen8: In this video I mount 4 Evercool 30x30x7mm EC3007M12CA fans on the CPU Heat Sink on my HP ProLiant Gen8 MicroServer. In addition to the 4 […]

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Home Gadget Geeks Episode 178

Episode 178 of Home Gadget Geeks podcast has information on cloud storage sync, Home Server Connect Help, Hard Drive Deals and info on OneNote: MVP John Zajdler (@Dieharder) and Kevin Schoonover (@schoondoggy1979) joins Jim (@jcollison) for show #178 of Home Gadget Geeks brought to you by the Average Guy Network, part of http://thegeeksnetwork.com/ community. We […]

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Add-In: My Movies for Windows – Home and Essentials v5.10 Pre Release 2

The pre-release version of My Movies for Windows – Home and Essentials is now at version 5.10 Version 5.10 Pre Release has the following change logs: 5.10 Pre Release 2: There were some parts of the new movie features that were not visible, as they were not correctly inserted in all pages after having been […]

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Synology Devices Running DSM 4 Compromised

Twitter user Mike Evangelist (‏@MikeEvangelist) posted the following on August 3rd:  Lovely. My @Synology NAS has been hacked by ransomware calling itself Synolocker. Not what I wanted to do today. The CryptoLocker deviation attacks Synology NAS devices by scanning the hard drives and encrypting the data. The only way of decrypting it is to pay […]

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The Seagate 6TB Hard Drive

With all the news of WD’s 6TB Red hard drives, its quite easy to forget about the other hard drive producer Seagate, and their 6TB monster: •World’s fastest 6TB nearline hard drives •10× the workload rating of desktop drives •High reliability with an MTBF of 1.4M hours on all drives •12Gb/s SAS and SATA 6Gb/s […]