Category: News

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Tamba Bay SBS User Group Q&A

Small Business Server MVP (Most Valuable Professional) Kevin Weilbacher gave a two and a half hour presentation and demo on Windows Home Server at his local Tamba Bay SBS User Group and has kindly posted for us the Q&A from the event which can be found here.

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Tranquil PC T7-HDX Provides addon Storage

The T7-HDX Home Server Extender, is a storage extension unit designed specifically for the T7-HSA from Traquil PC. The T7-HDX slides on to the T7-HSA’s chassis to form one integral unit, and can be configured at purchase with a range of storage options.  Along with the 2TB storage capability this makes for a very nice […]

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HP EX470 Review

UK Mag Computeract!ve reviews the HP MediaSmart Server EX470 and gives it 4 out of 5 stars. Here’s an excerpt:  Power consumption was higher than other network hard disks – we estimate annual energy bills of £39 for the Mediasmart EX470. These niggles, and the £400 price tag, mean it’s only suited to those who […]

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It's Electric

Green Computing is given a look at in an article at Economist.com who state It’s about saving money, not the environment. Following on from this article is the RandomElements Blog entry on Conserving power in a multi-PC household which has even more on saving how much electric our servers may consume.

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Vancouver Talks Windows Home Server

The VANTUG (Vancouver Technology User Group) Windows Home Server event which we mentioned here was well received by the 220 attendees who had the pleasure to listen to Microsoft’s Kevin Beares in BC in Canada. Graham Jones kindly sent some pics of the event and says: Apart from the lucky 40 winners of a copy […]

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WHS Version 2 – Between June and December 2008

Many thanks to whsuser who left a comment yesterday (07 Feb 08) highlighting the blog entry by Neil Hutson on the MSDN blog entitled Neil Hutson – Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 for developers. On this post Neil states that he has had a number of customers and partners asking what […]

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Available for Download – Windows Home Server Toolkit User Manual

Microsoft has released a new white paper for us WHS users. Entitled the Windows Home Server Toolkit User Manual, it goes through the installation and configuration of the Toolkit diagnostic software. Download the .doc file. Download the Toolkit diagnostic software V1.    

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Happy Birthday to you Both

Congratulations to Terry Walsh of We Got Served who are one year old on the 7th February and also to Christoph Dommermuth and the team from the German  language Home Server Blog who were also one on the 5th February as well. Wow, time goes so quick. For us at mswhs.com, we’ll have to wait […]

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Diskeeper TV

Diskeeper TV from the defrag people will be a series of short video clips on a variety of subjects that relate to system performance and the role Diskeeper plays. The purpose is really to shortcut reading a manual or white paper to find out some information – quickly. They have started with a few “general”  […]

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Microsoft Senior Product Manager Joel Sider talks Windows Home Server

The Computer Outlook Radio Talk Show host John Iasiuolo interviews Senior Product Manager Joel Sider about Windows Home Server. Joel discusses the basic purpose of Home Server, who it was built for, some of the Add-In applications available, such as tools that help you publish your own websites, to hosting your own blog, to performance […]