Steven Sinofsky announced at Microsoft’s annual sales meeting that customers will be able to get Windows 8 on October 26th, 2012 either on a new PC or as an upgrade. Earlier this month at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, Tami Reller told attendees Windows 8 would be available in October and now we have a […]
Revision3’s TEKZiLLA twice weekly tech show have a segment entitled “Are your Green Drives Killing Your NAS?” In this 10 minute segment PCPer.com’s Allyn Malventano talks about Western Digital’s new Red NAS Drives with their Time Limited Error Recovery – TLER (normally only available in enterprise RAID edition drives) and automatic dynamic balancing. Allyn also […]
Joe Nalewabau from the Windows Server Essentials Team has written a feature list for Windows Server 2012 Essentials Joe has listed lots of features, including: Storage Spaces File History Microsoft Online Backup Service Support for backing up 50 client machines > 2 TB disk support Remote Web Access (RWA) Windows 8 Metro application. Updated Windows […]
StableBit DrivePool version 1.0.2.6324 BETA is available with finalized translations plus an installer update. StableBit DrivePool is the Drive Extender type add-in for WHS 2011 users that allows you to both pool multiple hard drives into one big virtual drive and to easily add or remove drives at any time whilst providing file protection in […]
Totally unrelated to both WHS and WS2012e, but for those of you who like tinkering with new products Microsoft’s Windows MultiPoint Server 2012 Beta went live yesterday. MultiPoint Server is designed for schools and allows a single computer to support multiple users at the same time, each working independently using their own monitor, keyboard and […]
HP have a webcast on Windows Server 2012 Essentials this Wednesday July 18th at 8:00PM PT. Topics covered will be the features and benefits of Windows Server 2012 Essentials , customer scenarios, the HP Product portfolio and their transition plans, plus a 20 minute Q&A session. More details are in this demo video: Here is […]
A great 20 minute video on the installation of the connector software and a demonstration of both backup and bare-metal restore in Windows Server 2012 Beta Essentials (WS2012E):
We have a couple of posts for you highlighting the performance of Windows Server 2012 Beta Essentials. First up Tinkertry who has tested the performance of backups and bare-metal restores in Windows Server 2012 Beta Essentials, and the results are that it is a lot faster than both WHS2011 and WHS v1. WHSv1 was fast, […]
We Got Served has a hands on review of the HP ProLiant N40L MicroServer . Their comprehensive review starts off by looking at what’s included in the box, including its features and specifications. Next up the N40L is tested against the older N36L model and various speed tests are performed including a look at this […]
the average guy have another video on Windows Server 2012 Essentials, and this one looks at Domains and Storage Spaces. “Jim was joined by John Zajdler, Chris Courney (Drashna), Greg Welsh, Mike Martis (BYOB) and Paul Braren for a deeper dive into Windows Server 2012 Essentials Beta that was released to the public on July […]
