For those of you running either Small Business Server 2011 Essentials or Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials (as well as Small Business Server 2011 Standard Edition) you will be notified of an update to the Best Practices Analyzer. The September update to the Windows Server Solutions BPA adds 59 new rules. Currently the total […]
The Digital Lifestyle Show podcast this week talk Windows 8, Acer’s time traveling home server, DVBLink updates plus lots more. You can find episode 322 here.
Drive Bender have announced on Twitter that Release Candidate 1 (1.2.0.0) is in final internal testing and come rain, hail or shine it will land on Tuesday, October 4th. This is excellent news and is great to see Drive Bender steadily moving forward with their Drive Extender replacement add-in. Here’s some screen shots of this […]
Acer have announced that their eagerly awaited RevoCenter RC111 hardware for WHS 2011 users will be available in the Japanese market from late October and will be gradually released at retail stores nationwide throughout the country. It is expected to sell for around 40,000 yen, which equates to $520 or £330. http://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000240.000000640.html
The latest edition of the podcast for Build Your Own Box lovers is out. Episode 60 of BYOB includes the following: “Corsair cases, Corsair USB 3 flash drives, Disk2VHD, drive failure on RAID 5, Mobilinc HD, and Windows 8 are all covered this week. We are discussing many subjects tonight including the first week of […]
If you are running the current version of Drive Bender then the license is due to expire the end of September. If this affects you, then head over to Drive Bender to get a new license.
Episode 153 of The Home Server Show podcast is up and ready for you: This episode contains two big debates. The first is should you use an SSD drive as your Windows Home Server operating system drive. The second is running Windows Home Server in a virtual environment or running other servers in a VM […]
Paul Thurrott has stated that although Drive Extender was a good idea, it’s implementation wasn’t exactly enterprise-ready: …after testing this technology on its new-generation small business servers, Microsoft discovered it wasn’t compatible with many server apps and didn’t work reliably. So it was scrapped, to the chagrin of Windows Home Server fans, many of whom […]
The Orbital Backup Configuration Add-In is a Mac OS X Time Machine Backup for Windows Home Server 2011, Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials and Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials users. The free add-in eases the configuration burden of setting up an Apple Mac computer’s Time Machine to use a backup location on the […]
Its great news to hear that Windows Home Server both v1 and the 2011 version both support Windows 8 just fine. If you have tried Windows 8 with Home Server, what have been your experiences backing up Windows 8 to your Windows Home Server?
