StableBit DrivePool is coming out of beta and also has a new home page. StableBit gave the following announcement: The DrivePool BETA is coming to an end. DrivePool now has a new home on http://stablebit.com/DrivePool And what a nice home it is too, with lots of information on all of the add-ins features and lots […]
Episode 174 of The Home Server Show podcast is available, and this week: “We are back with a ton of news. Windows 8 and Storage Spaces are both still popular items for the week. There are also a lot of software updates to talk about.” You can catch episode 174 here.
Brian Burgess from GroovyPost.com has written a walkthrough on how to install Windows Home Server 2011 onto a USB flash drive. In his how-to Brain takes us through the flash drive setup steps and also links to his WHS 2011 installation steps. A great way of installing WHS if your Home Server has not a […]
Microsoft has published a Wiki article on TechNet on known issues when you join Windows 8 Beta to Windows Home Server 2011. Apart from the .Net Framework 3.5 issue which we have already covered, also of importance is 3 other issues which others have experienced: Power setting of Client backup doesn’t work. The thumbnail of […]
A wiki article is up for those of you who are receiving a computer monitoring error in the Dashboard of Windows Home Server 2011 after installing Update Rollup 2. There are several reasons that the Alert service will generate “Computer Monitoring Error”, including: Client or Server are missing Powershell execution engine. An alert evaluation component […]
CloudBerry Backup for WHS, the add-in which automates data backup directly to Amazon S3 and Windows Azure has been updated to version 2.7. The add-in which works for V1, WHS 2011 and SBS 2011 has the following enhancements: 1) Rackspace Cloud Files and OpenStack Object Storage support. This is a new storage option in addition […]
InteliSAN are after beta testers to help test their add-in LDisk in a iSCSI environment. The final version is nearly ready for final release and InteliSAN will select up to 50 customers and provide them with a free license after 30 day trial/test is over. So if you are interested to help test LDisk in […]
The developer behind the add-in Lights-Out is looking for beta testers for their new Mac agent. The new Lights-Out Agent for Mac OS X implements a similar feature set as the Windows based Lights-Out client: Automatic server wake-up via WOL Manual server wake-up via WOL Manual server wake-up via Internet Manual server standby Configuration of […]
Build 5843 of StableBit DrivePool, the Drive Extender type add-in for WHS 2011 users is available. Change Log: [D] Fixed incorrect number of copies sometimes being created for files in duplicated folders, depending on directory layout. [D] Fixed oplock delay when writing to duplicated folders. [D] Fixed an issue that was preventing the client backup […]
Mike Faucher (also known as PC Doc) and the BYOB podcast have a quick walk-through video on Creating a Parity Volume in part 1 of their Storage Spaces in Windows 8.
