Author Archive for Philip Churchill

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The Home Server Show Podcast Episode 171

Its another week so that means its time for another episode of The Home Server Show podcast. “Awesome show for you this week.  Patrick Kennedy from servethehome.com joins us to talk about networking gear, hard drives, motherboards, his site, and his gear.  It’s a hardware show for sure.  Patrick has a lot of knowledge in […]

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Add-In: Lights-Out Service Pack 2 Beta Refresh

A beta refresh for Service Pack 2 of the add-in Lights-Out has been made available for WHS v1 and WHS 2011 users. Here’s what’s new: New option for client action after backup Service Pack 2 Beta refresh introduces a new client option called “Force end action”. This option is enabled by default to ensure the […]

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AWIECO WakeOnLAN Pro for WP7 v1.0.0.0

  AWIECO have released a Windows Phone 7 app for WakeOnLan pro users. Start up computers attached to your network with AWIECO WakeOnLAN Pro, pin computers to Live Tiles More details are available at the WP7 Marketplace.

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Add-In: AWIECO WakeOnLan v1.2

The AWIECO WakeOnLan add-in has had an update. “AWIECO WakeOnLan has the ability to remotely turn on a computer. It enables the Server to start up every computer attached to your network. You can also power off a computer out of the Launchpad.” Version 1.2 has the following new addition: Added: WP7 support More details […]

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Add-In: Advanced Admin Console 2011 v1.0

The final version of Advanced Admin Console 2011 has been released. With this AddIn you gain access to all administrative areas of your server like Control Panel, Administrative Tools, My Computer, Network Places and many more. You can add shortcuts to your own programs installed on your server or to web-frontends of services and devices […]

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Lacie 5big Office+ Video

With the announcement of both the 5big Office and 5big Office+ from Lacie, the guys have released a video on their Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials plus offering: More details on the Lacie 5big Office+ can be found here.

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Lacie Announce a WHS 2011 Offering

Lacie today announced the LaCie 5big Office featuring Windows Home Server 2011 and the LaCie 5big Office+ featuring Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials. In a press release Lacie say that both units run a 1.6GHz Intel 64-bit Atom processor and come complete with 2GB of RAM. The Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials offering […]

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Restoring a Time Machine backup that’s Stored on WHS

Restoring a Time Machine backup that’s stored on a Windows Home Server isn’t the easiest job top perform as it entails the following: Install a brand spanking new copy of OS X Mount your Time Machine backup Run Migration Assistant. Restore the backup Thankfully to help you through this process is a blog post where […]

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The BYOB Podcast Episode 75

Episode 75 of the BYOB Podcast is up. “Corsair Accelerator Series, Jawbone JamBox, How to be security conscious and why all on this weeks BYOB podcast.” Lots of good stuff for the "Build Your Own Box" enthusiast, which you can find here.

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Add-In: iHomeServer v2 (for iTunes) v2.0.29.0

Version 2 of iHomeServer has been released. iHomeServer 2 is a native WHS (WHSv1 and WHS 2011) add-in that runs and manages iTunes on your Home Server. New features in this version include: Watch Folder management iTunes track management iTunes playlist management Metadata editing Cover art editing Native 64-bit support All from within the familiar […]