Author Archive for Philip Churchill

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Does Aurora Allow for Customer Growth?

High-tech news site eWeek.com have concerns over the positioning and options for customer growth for Aurora. Their 2 page article is worth a read as it asks the question what will Aurora customers have down the road as their company grows beyond Aurora’s preset licensing limitations and user cap. You can read it here.

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Live Sync to become Live Mesh – Again

Many Windows Home Server users used Live Mesh with their servers, until it was renamed Windows Live Sync that was. Today its been announced that Windows Live Sync will be called Windows Live Mesh when released this fall and as well as resorting to its previous name the service will also include 5GB for online […]

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Please Update Your Bookmarks

If you are visiting our site using http://mswhs.wordpress.com/ then please update your bookmarks as we can now be found at https://www.mswhs.com – See you there !

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WHS Developer Kit 1.1

Nick Asseloos from Asoft has just released version 1.1 of the WHS Version Vail Developer Kit. The kit is an all-in-one package for those of you who want to create/build/install an add-in for Vail. Version 1.1 supports the latest version of Windows Home Server – build 7659 – and contains a lot more information than […]

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Microsoft Talk Vail and Aurora

TechAU.TV down in Australia have a video where they are interviewing Rosemary Stark and Jeff Alexander from Microsoft to discuss the upcoming releases of Windows Home Server. Both Vail and Aurora are talked about in this 20 minute video.  

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New and Refreshed

Welcome to the new and refreshed MSWHS.com, your personal guide to Microsoft’s Windows Home Server. Please note that not all parts of the site are fully operational, but will be soon. Enjoy your stay and as always your comments are welcome.

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Moving Right Now – Oh Yes!

Just to let you know we are starting the work to move to our new hosting provider and our new layout which we mentioned yesterday, so for the next 6 hours or more (less hopefully) you will experience either the old site or nothing – What nothing! OK that’s wishful thinking , but we will […]

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AGAIN Do not use Advanced Format disks in WHS v1

After our warning the other day about using advanced format hard drives in version 1 of Windows Home Server, Microsoft have also published a Knowledge Base article explaining the problem. The article (KB2385637) explains that if you are using one of these drives in Windows Home Server v1 for either Server Backup, the Storage Pool […]

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Add-In: CloudBerry Online Backup for WHS 1.7

CloudBerry Online Backup for Windows Home Server has had an update. The online backup service for Home Server users which utilizes Amazon S3 cloud storage, now includes the following in version 1.7: Integrated Azure Storage option – Azure Blob Storage is another storage option in CloudBerry Backup in addition to Amazon S3.  The users can […]

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Add-In: DNS Updater 1.0.0.43

The add-in which enable you to access your computer remotely even with a Dynamic IP has had an update. DNS Updater from "ten atoms" has been updated to version 1.0.0.43 to fix a performance issue and if you act quickly they get the add-in for 50% off, bringing it down to just $9.99 More details […]