Drive Bender for WHS 2011 has been updated to version 1.2.1.6 This Drive Extender type add-in for users of Windows Home Server 2011, Windows SBS Essentials 2011and Storage Server 2008 R2 includes the following changes: Bug fix: During the duplication process (i.e. enabling duplication on a folder) could cause a file to have its read […]
The Tenniswood Blog has a great article comparing the performance of the new HP ProLiant MicroServer with the older model; the 1.3GHZ (N36L) vs the 1.5GHZ (N40L) models. Now the older 1.3 model had 4GB of RAM in it and the newer 1.5GHZ model only had 2GB of RAM in it, and the newer model […]
If you use CloudBerry Backup for Windows Home Server then why not use Server Side Encryption (SSE). Amazon S3 recently introduced SSE so you can now encrypt data on upload whilst decryption happens automatically when the data is retrieved. To enable this feature in CloudBerry Backup go to the Compression and Encryption step of the […]
Since July this year Tranquil PC has been preparing the next generation Windows Home server appliance. Known as the "Riley" series of servers, they will include the following features: Processor units powered by Intel dual core Atom, or i3/i5 processors Processor units include two 2.5” HDD bays to provide server OS drive and server backup […]
Episode 65 of the BYOB podcast is up and if you were not aware BYOB stands for Build Your Own Box and is great listening for those of you wanting to build your own Windows Home Server. And for this weeks episode: RAID5 expansion, server Anti-Virus, printing tips, Gigabyte’s 3d UEFI interface and LAN optimizer. […]
As you are probably aware we are great fans of the DVBLink software from DVBLogic here at MSWHS.com as it is ideal solution for housing your tuner cards in your Windows Home Server as it makes these cards network aware. The guys have just announced that version 4.0.1 of their product suit has just been […]
Podnutz Pro is a podcast for the computer repair technician who deals with business and enterprise customers, and episode 36 is all about SBS 2011 Essentials. Matt Rainey explains to host Lalo Nunez all the great features of this small business server which in some ways is very similar to WHS 2011. You can catch […]
Episode 160 of The Home Server Show podcast is up with the weeks Home Server news and views from Dave, John and Jim: “An add-in for an add-in and another good chat about VM’s, SSD’s, and drive extender add-ins.” You can find episode 160 here.
CloudBerry Backup for WHS (both v1 and WHS 2011) and SBS 2011 Essentials has been updated and now includes the ability to backup data to local storage such as local disks, network shares NAS and SAS devices. This is useful if you like to backup only a subset of your data to the cloud for […]
The add-in Orbital Backup Configuration which allows connected Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) computers to use your WHS for Time Machine backups will only work with Snow Leopard and not Mac OS X Lion. Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) support is unavailable due to a software conflict between the Microsoft Launchpad and Lion Launchpad, […]
