ServeTheHome has a great tutorial on how to map a network drive or a WHS share so that it appears with a drive letter within My Computer/Computer in Windows. A great easy way for a shared folder to have its own drive letter on a Windows PC for easier access, which you can read about […]
The Microsoft Download Center has a great list of training videos on Windows Small Business Server 2011. These Learning Bites are worth a watch as the interface in the SBS 2011 Essentials Learning Bites is very similar to WHS2011 and lots can be learned from them. You can find them here.
Did you know that WHS2011 can send you health email notifications about Home Server without installing any add-ins? Well it can and UsingWindowsHomeServer has the details on how to set it up so if WHS has a hiccup that you will be notified via email. You can find the setup details here.
If you have updated a Windows 7 computer to SP1 then you may experience an error message when attempting to establish a remote desktop connection to Windows Home Server. Thankfully the solution is easy enough to accomplish, which you can find in a video from HomeServerLand.
ghacks.net have a great write-up on Drive Bender which takes you through the configuration process from the Drive Bender pool manager to creating a mount point. You can read it here.
Proxure have just released a public beta of their earlier announced KeepVault 4.0 software. This release supports WHS2011, SBS Essentials 2011, Breckenridge, WHSv1 and the Windows Desktop version and includes the following updates: Backward compatible with existing KeepVault storage accounts New platform support for Windows Home Server 2011 (code name Vail), Windows Small Business Server […]
Proxure the company who provide the online backup solution KeepVault have just released some preview screenshots on their blog of KeepVault v4.0 running on SBS Essentials 2011. Version 4.0 software will be available for WHS2011, SBS Essentials 2011 and also Breckenridge and backups to both a local or network device and simultaneously to secure online […]
AWIECO DriveInfo is a free add-in for WHS2011 (and SBS 2011 Essential) which gives you a graphical overview of your hard drive usage in the Dashboard. The AWIECO DriveInfo also picks up all your standard shared folders and user created shares. What’s more, it reveals the usage of the drives as well as folders in […]
The add-in Home server SMART allows you to monitor the health of your PATA/SATA/eSATA disks in your WHS. Most PATA, SATA and eSATA disks are supported. Support for USB, IEEE 1394 and most SAS implementations is more limited, but too can be monitored. This latest beta release includes USB support so is now capable of […]
As we announced earlier this week the new public beta of the Advanced Admin Console 2011 (AAC 2011) add-in for Windows Home Server 2011 is now available. …AAC 2011 has been developed from scratch in order to fully harness the new features and capabilities available in the 2011 range of server operating systems from Microsoft. […]
