Author Archive for Philip Churchill

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Add-In: Drive Labeler 1.0.05

MediaSmart Drive Labeler is a new add-in from Jerry McCollom which updates the drive labels on the HP MediaSmart Server’s as follows: Drives are correctly labeled as SATA rather than SCSI. The drive bay location is appended to internal SATA drives External SATA drives are correctly shown as External rather than Internal. More info is […]

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Troubleshoot Motherboard and Hard Drive Problems

A couple of articles which may be of interest to you as a Windows Home Server user are Troubleshooting Motherboard Problems: 5 Real World Examples from enthusiast site ExtremeTech and the Digital Alchemy website has a list of Hard Drive Diagnostic and Repair Tools. All good stuff if our home Server’s go pear shaped!

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Add-In: Event Viewer 1.1.0.0

Benjamin Robichaud has updated his add-in that displays the Windows Event Logs, also known as Event Viewer in the Home Server Console. Once installed you can choose which log to monitor, filter the entries with Show All, Warnings, Errors, etc and clear the logs as well. Version 1.1.0.0 includes the following: Fix : only displays […]

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Drobo + Windows Home Server = Goodness

Steve Rowe has posted on his blog how he uses Drobo and Windows Home Server both together. Drobo is a flexible RAID solution from Data Robotics Inc.

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Setting up Windows Home Server – Part 3

The How-To Geek has published part 3 (with links to parts 1 and 2 if you missed them) of its setting up Windows Home Server series. Based around the Velocity Micro unit, in this part the geek loads everything up! Read it here.

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Low Power/Noise CPU's and Motherboards for WHS

Paul Jenkins has a great article on selecting a CPU and Motherboard for WHS that have low power usage and low noise output. Meet the contenders here.

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Windows Home Server World Cup – April 2008

With Windows Home Server now being sold in 47 different countries around the world, the Windows Home Server World Cup results for April look very interesting. Norway remains in 1st position, with New Zealand less than 100 units away from first place, assuming Norway stands still.  From the WHS Team Blog the top 8 countries […]

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New Podcast – The Media Center Show

The Home Server Show is a new fortnightly Podcast by David McCabe. In the first episode David discusses our site amongst other WHS enthusiast sites and also chats with Ian Dixon from The Media Center Show. David adds that he hopes that The Home Server Show will eventually be made available weekly in the future.

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Power Pack 1 and the Backup Database Feature (or NOT)

We Got Served picked up on a post on Microsoft’s WHS forums stating that Power Pack 1 of Windows Home Server will not allow you to back up your backup database via a built in tool as was previously announced. Todd Headrick of the WHS Team stated: A feature isn’t a feature until it ships.  […]

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Files that are compressed by NTFS compression may not be backed up correctly by WHS

The WHS team has solved a software bug that can affect Files on a home computer that are compressed by using NTFS compression may not be backed up correctly by Windows Home Server. The Knowledge Base (KB) article explains that if you try to restore a compressed file from a WHS backup, the file may […]