Mary Jo Foley is reporting that the next release of Windows Server won’t ship until some time in 2016. The next public preview of the product will be this spring. “For the past several years, Microsoft has delivered its new Windows client and server releases in tandem. But with Windows 10, Microsoft is going to […]
Episode 276 of the Home server Show podcast asks should you purchase Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials or wait? This is alongside chat on MSDN, TechNet, DreamSpark, bad 3TB drives and more. You can catch episode 276 here.
The pre release version of My Movies for Windows – Home and Essentials has been updated. Version 5.12 Pre Release 3 has the following change log: Added: Check for profile updates before contribution of movies. Added: New profiles for video converter. Instead of device specific profiles, we are moving towards more universal profiles of various […]
Microsoft have release Work Folders for Windows Server on the iPad. Work Folders is a location where you can store work files and access them from all of your PCs and devices, even when you’re offline. To use Work Folders, your workplace has to enable your account first. After your account is enabled, you can […]
Version 1.0.0.6 beta of Cloud Xtender from Division-M has been released From the same company that brings us Drive Bender, Cloud Xtender is storage pooling for the cloud… a revolutionary technology that allows a number of cloud storage providers to be pooled and utilized as a single Windows drive. Here is the change log for […]
Microsoft have a KB article with a solution if you cannot access shared files or folders on a drive in Windows Server 2012 (R2) Essentials. The KB article which explains the symptoms, the resolution and the registry workaround can be found here.
Version 2.3.0.0 of Drive Bender has been released with the following change log: [bug fix] S.M.A.R.T now being processed by its own service (the change in the previous release failed for some users). [bug fix] The Windows Server Dashboard could crash if some options were selected. [update] When performing a pool audit, the file size […]
Microsoft MVP Richard Hay’s explains why he has retired WHS2011 in his household and instead gone with the WD My Cloud personal storage NAS network drive. In his blog post Richard tells us why he went this route now he is using Windows 8 on his client machines. You can read Richard’s post here.
A user by the name of PhilUK has detailed his experiences with changing the rear fan on the HP N54L MicroServer. PhilUK gives us all the details including how to swap the pin connectors over on the fan lead to comply with the MicroServer which uses a non-standard pin-out on the motherboard. All the info […]
AnandTech have a great review on the 6TB Seagate Enterprise NAS HDD: The 4 TB variant of the Seagate Enterprise NAS HDD seems to be priced around $236 and the 6 TB variant around $420. These prices don’t have DRS included. The 4 TB variant costs the same as the equivalent WD Red Pro, but […]
