Author Archive for Philip Churchill

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Great Add-ins to Enhance WHS

Website Home Server Integration lists some great add-ins to enhance your Windows Home Server functionality. On the list are: Windows Home Server Disk Management Advanced Admin Console Diskeeper D-Link D-ViewCam mControl My Movies for Windows Home Server You can read the full details here.

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Asus TS mini – Built Like a Tank

Lovers of networking products KitGuru.net review the Asus TS mini. Their 6 page review has plenty, and I mean plenty to pics and performance graphs to compliment their piece, including a dBa noise testing graph which places the TS mini in an idle state as whisper quiet and under load as a high quality computer […]

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KeepVault for WHS – Vail Version Coming

Online backup provider KeepVault, today released a technology advisory confirming that a Vail optimized version of their Windows Home Server local and online backup software is under development. Pending any operating system changes from Microsoft, the software should be available by the end of August.

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How To Add System Restore to Home Server

If you remote desktop into Windows Home Server you may have noticed that there is no "System Restore" under Accessories/System Tools, which would be handy if it was available, especially after installing a dodgy add-in. To the rescue comes Tranquil PC, who have posted a .reg file and a .inf file which will both add […]

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Add-In: WHS Thumbnailer 1.0.1.4

HomeServerLand.com are reporting that version 1.0.1.4 of the add-in WHS Thumbnailer is available for download. The add-in automatically resizes images stored on your home server, allows you to configure watched folders, watermarking, automatic uploading to flickr and more besides. What’s New: Fixed a cosmetic bug on the ‘Watched folders’ dialog Thumbnail generation is now skipped […]

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Installing Amahi Home Server on an Acer easyStore

Rawiri Blundell recently moved house and being a Linux admin decided to customize his Acer easyStore H340. And customize he did, not the hardware but the software, instead installing Amahi Home Server instead of the supplied Windows Home Server. So if you have an Acer easyStore H340 and fancy voiding the warranty (which we do […]

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HPs EX490 Reviewed

RegHardware.com has a review on the EX490 HP MediaSmart Server. Their 3 page review takes a good look at the unit, which you can find here.

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The SBSv7, Aurora and Vail User Consoles

SBSfaq.com shows the user Consoles from the new SBSv7, SBS Aurora and WHS Vail. All looking very similar, as they would. More here.

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Add-In: CloudBerry Backup for WHS 1.6

The online backup add-in "CloudBerry Backup for WHS" has had an update. Release 1.6 has the following new features: Backup Network Shares  allows you to backup any external hard drives (or a NAS) which you may have attached to WHS by specifying its network share. Smart Delete – “A while back we introduced an option […]

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How To Run an Email Server on WHS

We told you earlier this week that Media Center MVP Pete Stagman would be hosting a meeting on "Running DeskNow! Mail and Collaboration Server on Windows Home Server". Now if you were not able to attend the meeting then it isn’t a problem as Pete has written a great guide on how to run the […]