From the 8th – 12th November (2010) TechEd Europe was taking place in Berlin, Germany for technology professionals who are involved in building, deploying or maintaining IT solutions using Microsoft technologies. There this year was Microsoft’s Senior Product Manager Michael Leworthy who gave a 45 minute presentation on Windows Home Server "Vail". Want to know […]
Sean Daniel has posted the presentation material on Aurora (Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials) from SMBNation 2010. The slide deck can be downloaded from Sean’s site here.
For those of you with the Acer Aspire easyStore H341 or H342 models, then here is a link to the 74 page Service Guide. The service manual takes a look at the Acer supplied system utilities and goes through system troubleshooting. Disassembly of the unit as well as a system block diagram are included as […]
Episode 112 of The Home Server show has details on the new SBS products, add-ins and controlling your Windows Home Server from the new Windows Phone 7. Pop over here for the goodness!
Family Diary is a suite of programs that allow you to set up and store appointments and contacts for family and friends. The suite consists of the Windows Service, a Windows client application, an Outlook Add-in and a Windows Homes Server Add-in. The Windows Home Server add-in allows you to start and stop the Family […]
A new add-in called WHS Phone will soon to available for Windows Phone 7 users that enables you to browse your files/shares, stream music wirelessly, view and upload photos and manage your Home Server on your Windows Phone 7 device from your Windows Home Server. The add-in will be available late November (2010) from the […]
Sean Daniel has a great article explaining the differences between WHS v2 (Vail), WSS 2008 R2 Essentials (Breckenridge) and SBS 2011 Essentials (Aurora) and asks the question: So why should you consider WSS 2008 R2 Essentials for your small business or customer? It’s a great read to find out how each version compares to each […]
If you would like to house tuner cards in your Windows Home Server than the DVBLink software from DVBLogic is the way to go as it makes these cards network aware. Currently the guys are releasing beta releases at the rate of one per week, with the current release being DVBLink 3.2 beta 3, here’s […]
Microsoft’s "Windows Storage Blog" today announced “Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials”, with similar features to Windows Home Server Vail. This newest member is part of the Windows Storage Server family of network attached storage appliances and was previously known under the code name of Breckenridge. It shares common features from both Windows Home Server […]
We love home builds here at mswhs.com, and it’s great to see "Black Jacque" contribution to the community. Posting on the Ars Technica forums, "Black Jacque" gives his parts list for a Vail mini-itx Windows Home Server utilizing an Intel Atom D525 CPU. Its a fully comprehensive guide which covers why each individual component was […]
