Technology site Geekzone has a review on The PC Gear Home Server from New Zealand supplier PC Gear. Priced at $1,199.90 incl. GST ($905, £442) it’s not cheap, but it includes the following: Intel Pentium Dual Core E2160 CPU Gigabyte LGA775 Motherboard with Gigabit LAN 1GB DDR2 RAM (dual channel) 1 Terabyte of storage (2x […]
If you’re searching for a practical and comprehensive guide to installing, configuring, and troubleshooting Windows Home Server, then we have the answer for you. Written for the Beginner to Advanced IT enthusiasts, Andrew Edney’s new book the Windows Home Server User’s Guide should be in the warehouses next week and on their way to your […]
Reviews -All Four We have four reviews from around the web on Windows Home Server. First up is the small network builders resource PracticallyNetworked.com with their review. Next is technology enthusiast Paul Smith, with his run down of Home Server and then Christopher Price has a review of Windows Home Server on his site entitled […]
I got a letter today from one of our readers in the States, now if you are a heavy user of RDP and FTP this could affect you. Over to Don: I would like to inform that anyone who is using ATT or Comcast in some areas are going to run into problems with WHS. […]
Microsoft enthusiast and evangelist Benjamin Gauthey has posted a two minute Webcast in French showing a D-Link IP camera being remotely controlled via the web sites pane within the remote management interface of Windows Home Server. Available from here. English translation by Google.
One thing that surprised me when I was installing Windows Home Server was the fact that it didn’t ask me for a time zone. Sure enough, when it finished booting up after the install the time was 2 hours off for me. WHS defaults to GMT -8, which is great if you live in California, […]
Remote or off-site backups are a great solution for those who wish to protect their WHS files from fire, flood or theft. This adds a great layer of redundancy in case of catastrophic loss. For WHS there are a few remote or on-line backup options out there (iDrive-E, Mozy, Carbonite) and some even offer a […]
For those of you beta testing avast! WHS Edition, we have some good news if one of your client machines is a Vista-based laptop.Due to the way Vista uses profiles within the Windows firewall, the service within Avast! does not communicate with the server correctly. This will be fixed in beta 3 which will be […]
Controversial writer David Berlind from the ZDNet Berlind’s Testbed blog has posted a follow up to the article he wrote in September (2007), Will Windows Home Server be Microsoft’s next flop? He writes that since the article was published that he has received emails saying he was out of line for saying what he did.Berlin […]
With Windows Home Server only being available as an OEM product, you will not get the two free support requests that come with most of Microsoft’s retail boxed products. So what can you do if you have a problem and are really stuck? Well, you can call on the help of the WHS community. Two […]
