Do you have a Windows Home Server restore disc? If not, the How-To Geek has a guide on how to create one in either Windows 7, Vista or XP which you can find here.
There is a great post on “The Windows Home Server Blog” about how Windows Home Server provides a lot of added benefits to the Windows Home Server + Zune + Windows Media Center experience, which you can read about here. Windows Media Center + Zune TV acquisition Zune software will Sync non-AC3 TV Content during […]
Microsoft employee "The IO Guy" has a great post on an unsupported way to back up Small Business Server (SBS) to Windows Home Server. He installed the WHS connector software onto SBS 2008, but as Home Server is not a solution to backup things like Exchange, Active Directory and SQL databases he used the built […]
Do you know how to shutdown or restart your Windows Home Server from within the console? I’m sure you do, but if not the How-To Geek has a reminder and takes you easily through the process, which you can find here.
PC Pro have just reviewed the Acer easyStore H340, where it got 5 stars out of 6 as its overall rating. Not the most energy-efficient server, but well specified and comparatively affordable You can read their review here.
Brent Friedman has been busy updating WHS Mobile and has released details of what is to come in version 1.5.3.4, which should be available within a couple of weeks. The three major changes are push notifications of server alerts/health, being able to create shares from the device and video streaming. Alerts from push notification will […]
How do you backup the Windows Home Server data itself? One option is to use an external hard drive and the How-To Geek takes us through the process of adding the external drive and how to remove it afterwards. You can read their tutorial here.
CloudBerry Online Backup for Windows Home Server has been updated to version 1.4 with the following new features: Ability to use different S3 accounts/buckets for backup plans Ability to delete files from S3 on Backup Storage tab Notification email enhancements Ability to run service as Administrator – important for WHS Drive Extender support Chunk size […]
Redec Syslog is a simple syslog server add-in which enables Windows Home Server to become a syslog server for your network devices and receivers. Syslog is a standard for forwarding log messages within an IP network and is typically used for computer system management and security auditing. In my case I wanted my Linksys WRT54GL […]
Here’s a quote from from Martign Brant, a Dutch IT pro which I picked up the other week from Twitter. I had to post it as it nicely sums up a new new users experience with Home Server:
