Author Archive for Philip Churchill

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Print from WHS when away from Home

MyHomeServer.com has posted an article on how to share your WHS connected printer over the Internet. The 16 step article takes you through the steps necessary to print when away from home – Read it here.

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The Week in Review – Sunday's Summery

What been going on this Christmas week at mswhs.com. Here’s your chance to catch-up if you missed something! Data Corruption Update The Knowledge Base article explaining about the data corruption issue when saving or editing specific programs that are stored on a WHS-based system has been updated to include the followingThese issues occur in the […]

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Data Corruption Update

The Knowledge Base article explaining about the data corruption issue when saving or editing specific programs that are stored on a WHS-based system has been updated to include the following These issues occur in the following scenario: A home server is under an extreme load. For example, lots of files are being copied to the […]

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WHS Hard Drives must be formatted to NTFS the correct way

One of Tranquil PCs customers received an error message when he tried to open a file within a folder in a backup set. As it turns out he had converted his drive to NTFS using Partition Magic 8, which did not convert it properly. So make sure that all drives are converted correctly (if necessary) […]

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Add-In: Event Viewer

Benjamin Robichaud has made an 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. Download from the following page.

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WHS File Corruption Issue – More Info

Windows expert Ed Bott has been in contact with the Windows Home Server team, who have given more information on the file corruption issue that affects the following programs when using them to save files to your home servers: Windows Vista Photo Gallery Windows Live Photo Gallery Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 Microsoft Office OneNote 2003 […]

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Another Way to Restore Files in WHS – Shadow Copy

As well as WHS having a back-up engine built in, it also has a lessor known feature to also help you protect your data, Volume Shadow Copy. Shadow Copy (also called VSC, Volume Snapshot Service or VSS) automatically creates point-in-time copies of files as you work, so you can quickly and easily retrieve versions of […]

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Welcome Back

Welcome back and I hope that all have all had a wonderful Christmas. Hopefully if you have been good girls and boys then Santa would have bought you a HP or Tranqual Home Server or some other wonderful gadget. If not don’t worry sit back, relax and enjoy some of the great stuff we have […]

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It's the Season for a Home Server

From all the team here at mswhs.com we’d like to wish you a very Merry Christmas! With special thanks to you our readers, the Windows Home Server team, and our contributors who have helped this site to flourish since we started back in June 2007. Whilst I nibble on some mince pies and put on […]

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What the web is saying

Mary Jo Foley writes on her blog “All about Microsoft” that a Linux guy by the name of Jason Perlow gave Windows Home Server a thumbs up Read the post and the debate which follows. Next Windows expert Ed Bott explains on his blog that to buy the OEM copy of WHS does NOT require […]