South African lecturer Minnaar Pieters has been building a Windows Home Server over the weekends in his home town of Stellenbosch in South Africa. Minnaar got hold of a HP low end tower server for his build and shares his hardware thoughts and installation through his first 2 parts of his story, such things as: […]
The Windows Home Server Team have posted an update on their blog stating that Power Pack 3 has been delayed until the end of 2009. The post stated that the team’s top priority is to ensure the absolute highest level of product quality, and that they will continue with additional testing of the software. The […]
What can you do with: a) A Windows Home Server machine b) A 2TB Hard Drive and finally c) A Freezer After hearing a horrible clicking noise from his hard drive Shawn Steele eventually got the data off his drive by placing it into his freezer, after which WHS could read the data off of […]
One of our hardware reviewers Steve Crick bought to my attention a post from AutomatedHome.com from back in August where they pictured a 20 Terabyte Home Server comprising 17 hard drives. Wow, that’s a lot, or can you do better? You can read the details here.
Website HomeServerLand continue their series of add-in author interviews and this week they chat with fellow MVP Sam Wood. Sam is better known for his Windows Home Server Disk Management add-in which he discusses amongst many other things, in this written interview, which you can read here.
Episode #57 of The Home Server Show podcast interviews Neil Sharma of Twonky Media about their new TwonkyBeam. Also on this weeks show are the usual news and views from David and the gang, which you can listen to here.
PerfectDisk are offering 25% of off all their PerfectDisk 10 products including PerfectDisk 10 Windows Home Server thru to September 30th. The defragmentation tool for our Home Servers normally sells from $49.99 but using the coupon code PDFASTER25 brings that price down to $39.99 – A great saving! As well as applying to the full […]
If you would like to know how to install Zune 4.0 onto Windows Home Server then the Home Server Show website has the details. Using an XP version of the Zune software and a copy of the MSI editor Orca, the task can be completed. You can read the full details here.
Cougar’s blog has details on what ports to port forward in your firewall to have Windows Home Server working correctly if you haven’t got Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) enabled. Cougar also lists the ports for RDP and Firefly/Fireplay. Available here.
Paul Thurrott’s SuperSite for Windows has a review of the new EX49x MediaSmart Server from HP which takes a look at the hardware and software improvements in HPs third generation of Home Server. Defiantly worth a look is a chart looking at the hardware differences between this and previous MediaSmart models. Read the full review […]
