ServersPlus have the HP PROLIANT N40L for just under £140 after cashback including free delivery. The N40L costs £239.94 but you get the £100 cashback and free delivery by using coupon code MSFREENDUK bringing the total to just £139.94. Plus you will also receive a MicroServer themed cooler bag to keep your food and/or drinks […]
The PC Doc has updated his benchmarks for the Release Candidate of Server Essentials. …things have not improved in terms of performance. If fact, some tests were a bit slower. I am using the same hardware in the same configuration as before for the testing. I will continue to test all releases including the soon […]
We have a couple of meet ups for you which may be of interest to the Home Server community. Firstly Home Server Show are organizing the HSS Meet up 2012, their 2nd annual meet up which will take place on October, 20th, in a location TBD, although it is sure to be the North Indianapolis […]
Hardware.info have updated their build sheet up for a deluxe Home Server. Based around the Intel Pentium G620T processor with 4GB of RAM, a ASUS P8H77-I mini-ITX H77 motherboard housed in a Fractal Design Array R2 300W case. And all for £2,063.45 – Yikes! You can find their component list here.
We mentioned a tip the other day from Windows guru Paul Thurrott about getting your media library’s populated when using Windows 8. If you are still having problems getting your media (especially photos) from Windows Home Server populating on your Windows 8 PC then Paul has some further information for you no why this is […]
CloudBerry have announced the beta availability of Cloud Migrator, a service that allows users transfer their files across different cloud storage services without installing any additional software. All copy operations run inside the cloud (on the EC2 machine) and managed through the web interface. The service allows users to copy files between different locations or […]
Episode 97 of the BYOB podcast is up: “This week BYOB discusses Some Windows 8 RTM issues. Server 2012 Essentials. Cord cutting updates.” You can find episode 97 here.
Rong Yu, program manager on the Windows Server 2012 Essentials team has written an article on how to migrate to Windows Server 2012 Essentials from another server: “One common scenario for migration is that users want to upgrade from a previous version of Windows Small Business Server (Windows SBS) or Windows Server. You may also […]
It’s that time again for another episode of "The Home Server Show" podcast. And in this week’s show: The Windows Server 2012 Essentials Release Candidate is now available so we are trying to make some sense of it compared to the last version we saw. We also briefly dive into the topic of where you […]
Add-in My Movies for Windows Home Server 2011 had an update today to version 2.12. Here’s the change log for this latest release: Added: Better failure information on blu-ray TV Series that cannot be converted because of missing disc mapping. Added: Facebook login. Changed: Info on converter profiles in settings is now shown in a […]
