Author Archive for Philip Churchill

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How to Access your WHS Shares Using a Mac OS X

Taimur Asad from website Redmond Pie has written a tutorial on how to access your Windows Home Server shares using a Mac OS X. Taimur shows us step by step how to setup your Mac to access all the shares on the Home Server. Read it here.

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Building a Energy Efficient Windows Home Server

Ade Miller a Microsoft Development Manager in the patterns & practices group (p&p) has published a series of 4 articles on building a green energy efficient Windows Home Server using low power consumption components: Choosing the Hardware – Choosing low power consumption components for your server. Putting it Together – Assembling the pieces. How anyone […]

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WHS Backs Up Windows Server 2008

Microsoft Small Business Specialist (SBS) John Pattison has confirmed that Windows Server 2008 can be backed up by Windows Home Server. He states in his post that the connector software installed fine and the backup feature works fine too.

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The Home Server Show #17

With the latest listener problems via email and the weeks Windows Home Server news of which there is lots, in this episode #17 of The Home Server Show. Catch it here.

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WHS and VPN

Reader Bob Crook sent us the following, which I thought I would put out for discussion; over to Bob: I have a branches-to-main office situation where all users/networks connect to each other by VPN. If you run the Connector Software from a branch computer despite there being a WHS at the main office, the computers […]

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Tranquil PC T7-HSG with 2x Atom CPUs

The T7-HSAi from Tranquil PC now has a big brother, the T7-HSG comprising Gigabit Lan and 2x Atom CPUs on the one chip. The Atom 330 will show itself as 4x CPU graphs in Windows task manager. The T7-HSG is available with either 500GB (£351), 1TB (£451) 2x 250GB (£427) or 2x 320GB (£467) hard […]

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3TB Home Build

  Reader Mike Johnson kindly sent us his Windows Home Server parts list with some pics. Mike’s rig now has 3TB of storage, totaling 2.73 TB of formatted space which he has built into a COOLER MASTER Centurion 590 case. Mike’s Part List Completed WHS Build with Pics Home server Expansion

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Add-In: WHS Outlook

WHS Outlook is now available for public release with the Beta 2 version 1.0.2.26 now available for download. The add-in integrates Microsoft Outlook with the Windows Home Server Console which allows the following benefits: Allows a single installation of Microsoft Outlook to be shared by up to 10 different client PC’s via the WHS Console. […]

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FTP Server on Windows Home Server

How about installing an FTP server on Windows Home Server? It has it’s advantages because the web interface limits how many people can upload and download files, where FTP doesn’t have this disadvantage and it also allows synchronization of files between off site computers and WHS as well. Joe DiFiglia, the guy who taught us […]

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Create a Windows Home Server

UK magazine and online Personal Computer World has a hands on on how to create your own Windows Home Server. The 3 page article discusses getting hold of the software to installing the drivers and looking at the drive extender technology behind our favorite Home Server. Read it here.