This weeks episode of the BYOB podcast is up. And in this weeks episode for the build your own box enthusiasts: “This weeks BYOB Podcast is joined this week by John Wills and John Zadjler. We’ll discuss the Corsair 550D Case, Silex USB over IP, ASRock Z77 and Ivy Bridge 3570K, an Onkyo Receiver. John […]
Website Title (Required) have a post about running a Windows Server 2012 Essentials VPN without port 1723. Its completed via through the Anywhere Access wizard by clicking on Virtual private network (VPN): “Just put a tick in that box, and that is literally all you need to do. You don’t need to open any additional […]
Drive Bender for WHS 2011 has had an update. Version 1.3.5.0 contains some updates and fixes from the v2 development branch. Here’s the full change log: Bug fix: User security can have issues with some extended characters. Bug fix: Removing a user from the user security list could fail. Bug fix: The "file in use" […]
If you are a WHS 2011 user then Drive Bender are ending their introductory offer for Home Server users on the 10th August. The offer includes the Home Edition of Drive Bender with life time support and maintenance for $20 saving 50% off the regular price of $40 You can grab the offer from here.
Tinkertry tells us that the slow backups and restores of WHSv1 and WHS 2011 have seemingly been addressed in Windows Server 2012 Essentials. According to Microsoft’s Ning Kuang who told Tinkertry: “We were able to improve the performance by increasing the data size of the disk I/O operations. It is great to see customer appreciate […]
Its another week and Episode 191 of The Home Server Show is up: Dave is out and Jim and John take over. The big topics are Outlook.com, Raspberry Pi, and some Home Server talk as usual. You can find episode 191 here.
WeGotServed’s series of articles on Building a Windows 8 Home Server continues with their latest instalment: Storage and Storage Spaces. Their comprehensive 7 page article looks at what Storage Spaces offers over Drive extender and then goes on to tell us how to setup and configure a Storage Pool and a Storage Space. A comprehensive […]
newegg Business are offering the HP ProLiant ML110 G7 Tower Server System bundled with Windows Home Server 2011 for just $399.99 The HP ProLiant ML110 G7 is powered by an Intel Core i3 2120 CPU running at 3.3GHz (2Cores/4Threads), has 2GB of memory and comes with a LFF SATA 250GB HDD. The combined total for […]
The Windows Server Blog today announced that Windows Server 2012 has been released to manufacturing (also known as RTM). The post also stated that Windows Server 2012 will be generally available for evaluation and purchase by all customers around the world on September 4th Going by previous experience this would mean that Windows Server 2012 […]
Newegg have a 2TB Seagate Barracuda for just $99.99 The 2TB Seagate Barracuda (ST2000DM001) is a 7200 RPM 3.5” internal hard drive with 64MB Cache and is SATA 6.0Gb/s to maximize data transfer rates. The drive was originally $119.99 and is currently listed for $109.99 but by using coupon code EMCNCGJ37 an additional $10 is […]
