The service providing free domain name resolution for Windows Home Server users gets an upgrade today. The service will be moving from the Live platform to Azure providing a bigger infrastructure to allow future growth. Also outages should be a thing of the past. The update will take unto 24 hours to complete and during […]
As we informed you last week, today is the day when the Windows Home Server Vail beta expires, and moves into Windows Server 2008 R2 Expiry mode where the server reboots hourly. No data will be lost during an expiry, and users will still be able to access the server if needed to. Since the […]
Joel Burt is part of the Windows Home Server team at Microsoft who has been at CES in Las Vegas demonstrating what’s in store for Windows Phone 7 users come the next version, “Vail” courtesy of a soon to be released add-in. The Vail add-in for Windows Phone 7 adds a new feature onto Windows […]
Microsoft’s OEM training website has a zipped video on “Vail” available for download. The title may be a handful, but Windows Home Server Code Name “Vail”: Product and OPK Deep Dive, is worth a watch. Here is how the OEM site describes the video: View demonstrations of new functionality in the preview version of Windows […]
On display at CES is the LaCie 5Big Backup Server featured in the Windows PC showcase, but instead oh having v1 of Windows Home Server installed upon it this one has Windows 7 Home Server. A Microsoft representative also confirmed to website "i started something" that Windows 7 Home Server was indeed the official name […]
On the 10th January the beta version of Vail will expire making the server unavailable or making it shutdown every hour. Since there is no workaround for this it is important that you move any data which you wish to save off of your Vail server before Jan 10th. A new build of Vail will […]
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the worlds largest consumer technology tradeshow starts tomorrow for 3 days and is where, in Las Vegas all the latest consumer tech is shown. This year’s CES 2011 may announce a Microsoft Windows TV box for under $200, have plenty of tablets on display and even more 3D TVs which […]
Drobo have a podcast entitled "Pre-CES powwow: Storage for Windows Home Server" which takes place later today (Jan 4th), at 9AM PT. The podcast will feature special guest Jim Collison from the HomeServerShow podcast and will look at storage expansion with today’s drive extender plus storage protection strategies for tomorrow’s Vail WHS. You can watch […]
The Google help forum has a great tip from user "droidxipod" who uses DVDFab to backup his DVD movies to Windows Home server. Droidxipod explains how he plays his DVD video collection on his Motorola Droid X by using a profile and converter within the software "Aunsoft Video Converter". You can find the details here.
A couple of tutorials are available on using the app "Air Video" to stream video to a portable Apple device over Wi-Fi or the internet. The first is from HomeServerLand who also explain how to install the server component of the app onto Windows Home Server as well as how to convert your video content […]
