The weeks edition of The Home Server Show podcast is up: “We’re back and there is still more Microsoft stuff to discuss. XBox Music and Smartglass. How will these changes effect the home server user? We’ll talk a little about that as well as some Windows Home Server news and show you a couple of […]
LaCie have announced the 4big Rack Office featuring WHS 2011 as a rack backup solution for the small business. Comprising a powerful 1.6GHz Intel® 64-bit Atom™ processor and 2GB of RAM the LaCie 4big Rack Office offers RAID modes 0, 1 and 5 and is currently available in a 8TB configuration setup as RAID 5 […]
Episode 87 of the BYOB podcast is up: “Big Show this week. As if Windows 8 release Preview wasn’t enough. A budget case, low end HTPC, SSDs. Server upgrade and customer service that really works?” You can grab episode 87 from here.
StableBit DrivePool has been updated to version 1.0.2.6234 BETA. This latest release of the Drive Extender type add-in for WHS 2011 users has the following changes: Do not lock Store while waiting for VDS to respond. Apparently, VDS locks up while performing server backup, halting all DrivePool UI activity. More information on this beta release […]
Version 2.0.0.2123 BETA of StableBit Scanner for Windows Home Server 2011, Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials and Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials has been published. This latest beta release fixes the following issue: When more than one disk has the same signature, do not crash the service. More information on StableBit Scanner can […]
We are hoping like the rest of you that there will be another version of Windows Home Server and if that is the case then it will be based on Microsoft’s next server operating system Windows Server 2012. So if you would like to know more about this next server o/s then Microsoft are offering […]
Western Digital have released a firmware update for the WD Sentinel DX4000 running Windows Storage Server 2008 R2. Software version 01.02.23.395 released 29th May resolves the following 3 issues: Updated compatible hard drives (Knowledge Base 9443) for the Sentinel Storage Server WD Monitor functionality during Server Recovery (6TB units) Manual Software Update functionality in Japanese […]
If you have one of the new Z77 motherboards with an Intel 82579V NIC then the LAN driver will fail when you try to install it on Server 2008-R2 and WHS 2011. Thankfully there is a workaround which involves editing the inf file. Joe_Miner explains how to perform this task to get your network/internet working […]
The DVBLink product line has been updated to version v4.5 beta 2. What is new and fixed from the previous beta / previous version: Fixed: Disappearing channels from channel selection Fixed: Channel preview does not work until previous preview stops Additional fix for growing mcepg database size Added: Manual trial activation Fixed: xmltv source not […]
Episode 185 of The Home Server Show podcast is available: We’re talking Windows 8 Consumer Preview that should be released at any moment has just been released. We go back and forth on many points including running it on desktops and tablets and the old “car vs truck” argument…We also talk about an issue that […]
