The Windows Server Essentials and Small Business Server Blog has a post on using Windows Server 2012 Essentials with more than 25 users. The post explains how to run Essentials as one of your two virtual instances once you have a Windows Server 2012 Standard license. Scenario’s are also taken a look at in this […]
Its another week and its time for another episode of "The home Server Show" podcast. This week its episode 208: Update Rollup 4 is out for Windows Home Server 2011 and John, Jim, and Dave are here to dissect it. There are new Microservers, Drobo 5N, Western Digital Sentinal, 6 watt processors, you name it! […]
The latest release of CloudBerry Backup v 3.2 has Smart Restore functionality built in for Amazon Glacier, which allows you to manage your data restore in an intelligent way: When you run a Restore Wizard for Glacier and select the data to restore it will estimate the total restore size and the associated costs. It […]
HP have published the specs of the new N54L ProLiant MicroServer, in a 21 page PDF file. Here’s the overview: Processor: AMD Turion™ II Neo N54L (2.2GHz) AMD RS785E/SB820M chipset Memory: Two (2) DIMM slots 2GB (1x2GB) Standard or 4GB (1x4GB)/8GB Maximum, using PC3-10600E DDR3 Unbuffered (UDIMM) ECC memory, operating at max. 800MHz Storage Controller: […]
Update Rollup 4 (UR4) for Window Home Server 2011, SBS 2011 Essentials and Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials has been released, and is being distributed via Windows Update. So what’s new? Well for WHS 2011, Microsoft KB Article 2757011 lists the following 10 major issues which have been fixed in this release: Issue 1 When […]
Its time for another episode of “The Home Server Show” podcast, and this week it’s episode 207: …We are going to go over a few things about CES but we also have a deal to make with you. It is the season for CES so we have to talk a little about it. We promise […]
Microsoft KB Article 894199 lists what updates are coming from Microsoft in the following weeks for "Patch Tuesday". Of interest to us, is that an Update Release is listed for SBS2011 Essentials, WHS 2011 and Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials as being available next Tuesday, December 11th. Doing the maths this will be Update Rollup […]
It seems an update to the HP Proliant MicroServer is on the way. Two new versions have been spotted on the web, with the model number of N54L. One version offers a 250GB hard drive whilst the other is diskless. The diskless model ships with 4GB RAM, whilst the second ships with only 2GB RAM […]
Microsoft and HP’s joint Coffee Coaching video series have just released four videos highlighting features in Windows Server 2012 Essentials. The first 6 minute video is on Anywhere Access which tells us about Remote Web Access, the Windows 8 and Windows Phone apps and remote domain join: Quickly connect to the server and computers in […]
The Channel 9 network have a video on Windows Server 2012 File System Enhancements which takes a look at ReFS and Storage Spaces. For those of you using or thinking of using WS2012 Essentials then the part of this video on Storage Spaces is worth a view: Windows Server 2012 introduces two important new features, […]
