Author Archive for Philip Churchill

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Add-In: P80 Review

The Using Windows Home Server website has a review of the new P80 add-in for Windows Home Server. P80 is a website which you view via the home page of your WHS which allows you to view various aspects of your WHS in one easy to use web page, just like you can from within […]

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WordPress for WHS Add-In

Cougar has been busy working on a WordPress add-in for Windows Home Server. WordPress is what mswhs.com is powered by, and is a superb open source blogging platform. In the past if you wanted to install WordPress onto WHS, it would take a lot of work and configuration, but now the WordPress add-in has just […]

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X510 Pictures and Brochures

We have some downloads, pics and a video of the new X510 from HP for you.     As we can see this beauty looks exactly like the new EX49x range from HP.   The front and back in more detail. Also available is this short 1 minute video highlighting the Data Vault. The data […]

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HP X510 Available for Pre-Order

With the announcement on the new HP StorageWorks range of Home Server’s for small businesses the X510 is already available for pre-order from both MacMall and the Small & Medium Business Store at HP. MacMall has the X510 1TB model for pre-order for $719.99 whilst HP have all 3 configurations of the X510 available at […]

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HP Announce Data Vault Home Server for Small Businesses

HP have just announced the Data Vault, a server which is based on Windows Home Server and targets the small business market. HP has the consumer market covered with the LX195 and EX49x range of Windows Home Server’s, but now hope to corner the small business sector too with the announcement of the HP StorageWorks […]

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Building WHS in South Africa

South African lecturer Minnaar Pieters has been building a Windows Home Server over the weekends in his home town of Stellenbosch in South Africa. Minnaar got hold of a HP low end tower server for his build and shares his hardware thoughts and installation through his first 2 parts of his story, such things as: […]

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Power Pack 3 Delayed

The Windows Home Server Team have posted an update on their blog stating that Power Pack 3 has been delayed until the end of 2009. The post stated that the team’s top priority is to ensure the absolute highest level of product quality, and that they will continue with additional testing of the software.  The […]

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Frozen Server

What can you do with: a) A Windows Home Server machine b) A 2TB Hard Drive and finally c) A Freezer After hearing a horrible clicking noise from his hard drive Shawn Steele eventually got the data off his drive by placing it into his freezer, after which WHS could read the data off of […]

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20TB Home Server Comprising 17 Hard Drives

One of our hardware reviewers Steve Crick bought to my attention a post from AutomatedHome.com from back in August where they pictured a 20 Terabyte Home Server comprising 17 hard drives. Wow, that’s a lot, or can you do better? You can read the details here.

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Add-In: BDBB 1.0.2.2

The  add-in BDBB has been updated to version 1.0.2.2. Also known as the Windows Home Server Backup Database-Backup, the add-in allows you to easily create and restore a backup of the Backup Database created by the Windows Home Server, which contains the backups of all Client PC’s in the home. Version 1.0.2.2 is primarily a […]