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The BYOB Podcast Episode 69

Episode 69 of the BYOB podcast is up for the "Build Your Own Box" enthusiasts amongst you. On this weeks episode Cloning the WHS 2011 OS using Acronis and then installing it onto an SSD as well as lots more. You can find episode 69 here.

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The Home Server Show Podcast Episode 164

Its another week and another episode of The Home Server Show podcast is up. This week: Mike Howard from jpeg2RAW and Mike Faucher from BYOB join Dave, John, and Jim to discuss backup issues, cloud storage, and backup strategies.  This is a heavy dose of backup with very little news discussion. You can catch episode […]

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Windows 8 Public Beta in February 2012

During a San Francisco press event yesterday Microsoft announced that a public beta of Windows 8 would be available sometime in late February 2012. This is great news but it looks like it will miss a release at CES 2012 in January next year. Hopefully Microsoft will demo a near final beta copy at this […]

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The BYOB Podcast Episode 68

Episode 68 of the BYOB podcast is up and this week there is a review of the Western Digital DX4000 which provides Windows Storage Server 2011 R2 Essentials, a look at WHS 2011 on Acronis’s new product True Image Home 2012 and the WDTV Live Hub is revisited. Lots of interesting content in episode 68, […]

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The Advantages of NOS over P2P

DeviceMAG has an article on the advantages of NOS (network operating system) over P2P using Windows Home Server 2011. The article starts of by explaining the differences between a P2P and an NOS network, and how it can fit in your home network. Its an interesting read which you can find here.

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The Home Server Show Podcast Episode 163

Another week and another episode of The Home Server Show podcast is up. This weeks episode has: “News on the home server front, CES, Black Friday, HP’s Microserver, and John’s dead MediaSmart Server.” You can find episode 163 here.

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DA Document Manager for WHS 2011 Available Soon

You may remember DA Document Manager, an add-in for Windows Home Server v1 users to help them organize their documents. Now thanks to our friend Bob Crook we can inform you that a version is being worked on for WHS 2011: Because the new version of WHS is a complete rewrite, it has taken much […]

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Child Site Add-In Being Developed for WHS 2011

Gordon Schmidt has been working on a WHS 2011 add-in with his brother, which will extend the ISS IIS functionality of the platform. The idea is that the add-in will enable you to create a child site off from the parent yourservername.homeserver.com/?. This idea was done before in version 1 of WHS with the add-in […]

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CrashPlan+ and WHS Backup Plan

DavesComputerTips explains how he incorporates CrashPlan+ into his WHS 2011 backup plan. All well as WHS backing up all his computers daily, Dave Hartsock also utilizes the following: Photo, music, and document files are stored locally on each computer and synced to a corresponding user folder on the Windows Home Server 2011 box over the […]

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The BYOB Podcast Episode 67

This weeks edition of the Build Your Own Box podcast is up: “This week we have a special guest on the BYOB. We spend some time talking to Dean Roddey from Charmed Quark Systems. As Chairman, founder, and CTO of the company, Dean walks us through the capabilities of his software and key differentiators between […]