TV4Home is a new add-in which installs the MediaPortal TV Server onto Windows Home Server, adding better support for TV tuner cards in both WHS v1 and WHS2011. Using easy to use wizards the add-in allows you to record your favorite TV shows or stream Live-TV to your network clients and it properly integrates into […]
The add-in Lights-Out has a new beta version available. Version 1.5.0 for both Windows Home Server 2011 and WHS V1 has numerous changes For the WHS2011, 1.5.0 build 1440 version , changes are: Client actions – Computer tab has new client actions for shutdown, standby and reboot. New Monitors – Two new monitors allow to […]
Windows Home Server 2011 will have an add-in by a third party which will provide similar functionality to what Drive Extender (DE) had. The add-in StableBit DrivePool will let you add multiple hard drives into one combined storage pool on the Windows Home Server 2011. You can create folder shares on this storage pool, and […]
Windows PC’s are automatically added to the backup which takes place in a round robin style nightly but if you are using a Mac you end up with a launch pad and access to the server, but no default backup. Our friend Sean Daniel (with help from Fabian and Craig) has put together the steps […]
The latest episode of The Home Server Show has news on Windows Home Server 2011, add-ins, Virtual Machines, Worm Holes plus lots more. That’s episode 123 which you can find here.
"How-To Build a Windows Home Server with Muscle (but no Drive Extender)" is an updated version of an article which was written at Maximum PC: The next generation of Windows Home Server enables video streaming and transcoding operations, so we built a WHS system that can handle the load Their build list totals short of […]
Microsoft have another video in their Learning Bites series on how to add some very low cost and easy to implement redundancy for your data using software raid which is available from the underlying Windows Server 2008R2 operating system. This allows you to continue using the server until you are able to schedule a maintenance […]
If you use the blog writing software Windows Live Writer then did you know that there is a way of fooling it, so you can store both your drafts and published posts on your Windows Home Server enabling you to access them on any computer on your home network or via the WHS remote access […]
Every hard drive makes a certain noise before it is about to fail and every brand and even models within that brand make slightly different noises. Luckily for us data recovery company Data Cent has put together a catalogue of drive failing noises from the likes of Western Digital, Seagate, Maxtor, Samsung etc which is […]
If like me you prefer to watch instead of reading about Windows Home Server 2011 then we have some great videos for you, 11 to be exact which should keep you busy for a while First up here is a video of “almost” everything that is “click-able” in Windows Home Server 2011 courtesy of the […]
