Pay attention please else you can sit at the back of the class! Now that we have Windows Home server a short time away from being available shrink wrapped, I thought that a brief history of our beloved home server would be in order. 1999 First thought paper written about a home server product by Charlie […]
In the beta builds of WHS Microsoft used 2 test domains for their Dynamic DNS service: livenode.com livenode2.com Beta testers could get a personalized domain name (e.g. MyName.livenode.com) for remote access to their home server while away from home. If as a beta tester you registered a personalized domain name with either livenode.com or livenode2.com prior […]
Revision 1 of Windows Home Server will be available shortly with an ETA of 15th – 21st August 2007. Collating information which is currently circulating on the web we expect it to be available at £150-£200 £100 British Pounds including local tax. For those of you across the Atlantic we expect it to be between $200-$300 $150-$200 US […]
Well we have two new books for you. The first is by Paul McFedries entitled Teach Yourself VISUALLY Windows Home Server. The 352 page $30 paperback from the Wiley publishers Visual series will be available from February 5 2008. Book Description:Technology enthusiasts and home users around the globe are buzzing about the latest product from […]
Four more Knowledge Base articles have been published by Microsoft for WHS. You receive a disk-related error message or a network adapter-related warning message when you try to install Windows Home Server 939424. How to troubleshoot a problem that occurs when a digital media receiver cannot locate the Windows Home Server-based computer on a network […]
The final RTM version of the SDK (software development kit) documentation for Windows Home Server has finally been updated on the MSDN site. You may read it here http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb425866.aspx.
Just to let you know that I am back from a few days away (Sunshine at last here in the UK!) and have lots of new postings for you which I shall post from tomorrow. For now
The first Knowledge Base articles for Windows Home Server have appeared on Microsoft. KB articles 939426, 939217, 939427, 939428, 939429 and 939218 all deal with issues relating to setup and backup. Lets have a look at them: Article 939426 entitled Data may not be migrated or duplicated as expected in Windows Home Server explains why data […]
You may change your Windows Home Server network name after setup completes. Log into the Administrator desktop via a Remote Desktop session. Click Start, right click My Computer and click Properties. On the Computer Name tab you can change the machine name by clicking the Change button. If you change your server’s name after installing the […]
Now that Microsoft’s Windows Home Server Forums have been updated, some users are still experiencing sign in problems. There are two potential issues: Forums SSL certificate: An issue with the Forums SSL certificate was preventing some users from signing in. This has been addressed. You do not have to clear cookies to get this fixed […]
