Author Archive for Philip Churchill

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An Expensive WHS Home Build

AnandTech has a great 4 page article by Loyd Case on his Windows Home Server home build. Using the Chenbro ES32067 mini-ITX case and some expensive enterprise versions of Western Digitals GreenPower 2TB drives the build came to $970 – Wow! Read the details here.

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WHS Event in Japan

Over in Japan on the 23rd December there are a series of sessions on Windows 7 and Windows Home Server in the Great Together Fiesta.   To celebrate the launch of Power Pack 3 the sessions look at PP3 and how it integrates with Windows 7 as well as add-ins amongst other things. More details […]

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Is a HP DataVault Used in your Business?

HP and Microsoft are after your help. If you have bought or setup the HP DataVault in a small/medium business environment or in a home office they would like to hear from you about your experiences. Which ever industry your business may be in, what sort of impact has the DataVault made to it (Although […]

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Add-In: Home Server Help 1.0.0.0

Tranquil PC have an add-in for owners of their Home Server’s. The Home Server Help add-in gives you remote assistance to Tranquil Home Server Specialist Technicians to are there to help you in the rare event that the server itself needs attention which is beyond your knowledge. More details are available from here.

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Stream Music over the Internet using Hamachi

If you would like to share and/or stream your music from Windows Home Server over the Internet then the Tranquil PC Weblog may have the answer for you. Using the VPN software LogMeIn Hamachi² is a free simple solution and this post explains how to set it up and configure it.

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WHS Senior Product Manager Shows his Tech

The Channel 10 network has a great video of Microsoft’s Senior Product Manager of Windows Home Server Mark Pendergrast. The video “Show Us Your Tech – Mark Pendergrast Edition” takes a tour of Mark’s 1920’s house and the tech which he has within it. Starting at the kitchen with the 40" LCD and the ROKU […]

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Lenovo's IdeaCentre D400 Reviewed by PCMag

PCMag.com has a review of the Lenovo IdeaCentre D400 Home Server. Reviewer Mario Morejon looks at the design of Lenovo’s good looking server hardware and tests the setup and performance of the unit as well as taking a look at its features. The Lenovo IdeaCentre D400 is a basic implementation of WHS. The low power […]

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Add-In: TimeTraveler for WHS 1.0

Time for a new Windows Home Server add-in for you. TimeTraveler for WHS allows a WHS user to create roll-back points for changed files within any WHS Share.  Directly using the WHS Console, a user can select to roll-back a file/folder/Share to any point in time.  If you’ve ever lost data by accidently overwriting a […]

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Scandinavians Love Windows Home Server

Google’s new Insight for Search beta provides insight into search patterns and provides some interesting results for "Windows Home Server". What is most interesting is that Norway is the country which most searched for WHS information, followed by Sweden and the Netherlands. With the United States coming in a close 4th position. Browse the info […]

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Health Status in Power Pack 3

Power Pack 3 (PP3) has added a file called health.xml, which can be found at http://servername:55000/health/health.xml. This file stores information about both your server and connected computers including storage and share details.