Author Archive for Philip Churchill

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Windows Home Server – More Reviews

The reviews for Windows Home Server are a plenty. Here we have 5 more for you. News 8 Austin from Texas has a news cast on the HP MediaSmart Server, which is available for viewing from the following page. One of the team at Connected Internet, the site dedicated to the latest technology is building […]

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Technical Brief for Home Networking Available

Microsoft has released a new white paper, “The Windows Home Server Technical Brief for Home Networking”. This PDF document provides an in-depth look at home networking and how it applies to WHS. Within it’s contents we are shown a recommended home network configuration, are taken through a list of home networking acronyms and most importantly […]

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HP MediaSmart Manuals Online

On the HP customer care site there is now lots of technical support information for the MediaSmart Server EX470 and EX475. There are 14 FAQ’s and over 150 technical support documents. The main categories from their support site are: Solve a problem Setup and install How to use Product information Manuals FAQs As you can […]

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HP MediaSmart Server in Stock and Shipping

The HP MediaSmart Server’s are now in stock at hpshopping.com. HP are $10 cheaper than Amazon.com for the EX470 and the same price for the EX475, but you don’t get the $20 discount that Amazon are providing and you must pay taxes too. Still, it’s a good deal, with free standard shipping and it ships […]

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Review – Expert Guide to Windows Home Server

UK Magazine PC Pro have an Expert guide to Windows Home Server on their website. The 4 page article covers the features of WHS. Read it here.

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Diskeeper Winners Announced

Well done to those of you that entered our competition to win 1 of 5 copy’s of Diskeeper 2008 HomeServer Edition, the defrag tool for WHS. We had many entries to the question: What is the maximum supported volume size supported in Diskeeper2008 HomeServer Edition. Is it: A) 768GBB) UnlimitedC) 2TB For those of you […]

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KeepVault Updated

KeepVault the online backup solution for Windows Home Server has been updated. The original version for WHS 2.10 was released on 5 November (2007). This latest update 2.12 dated 11 November (2007), incorporates the following: Optimize retry attempts after network connectivity issues Set file scanning thread to low priority Data compression optimization Fix high CPU […]

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High-Priority Updates for WHS

Two updates are available for our server machines today: Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool – November 2007 (KB890830)After the download, this tool runs once to check your computer for infection by specific, prevalent malicious software (including Blaster, Sasser, and Mydoom) and helps to remove any infection found. If an infection is found, the tool will […]

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Whoops – It's Silly Error Message Time

Here we have an error message during Windows Home Server installation that caused us to laugh.      Many thanks to digWin and Antonio for the pic.

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Windows Home Server Toolkit – The User Manual

In this post we hope to give you the information you need to get the most from Microsoft’s Windows Home Server Toolkit, a tool and an add-in with many advanced features. It’s important to note that the Toolkit will not make any changes to your computer, it will point out where the problem(s) lie so […]