Microsoft executive Kevin Kean talks to Paul Thurrott about SBS 2011 Standard and Essentials. As you may be aware Small Business Server 2011 Essentials was originally called by the codename Aurora and is part of the Colorado family (Vail, Breckenridge and Aurora) and has similar features to Windows Home Server Vail. Paul’s Q&A session can […]
Episode 120 of "The Home Server Show" podcasts is up, this week offering you lots of different options for Windows Home Server backups, retention, restoring and cloud backups. Is it worth a listen? It certainly is and you can find this weeks episode here.
This weeks Home Server Show podcast is a CES 2011 special which has Dave, Jim And Lux having interviews with Drobo, Microsoft, and the CEO of Eye-Fi from Las Vegas. You can catch The Home Server Show CES 2011 Edition here.
Website "FTW Review" wanted to backup their Home Server and looked at CrashPlan vs Mozy vs Carbonite vs SugarSync and came to the some conclusion i did. Crashplan was the winner and is what I currently use to backup my Windows Home Server to the cloud. You can read the details here.
DigitalTrends.com went to CES and had a look at the LaCie 5big Backup Server which uses Windows Home Server The guys also have a short video on their site demonstrating the Vail Windows Phone 7 Add-In, which we wrote about the other day, which you can find here. And although Lacie have not released any […]
CES has fininished for another year in Las Vegas, with no major news from the event for Home Server fans apart from the announcement of Vail Windows Phone 7 Add-In. If you couldn’t make it this year here are some pics from CES 2011 courtesy of fellow MVP Alexander Kent.
The service providing free domain name resolution for Windows Home Server users gets an upgrade today. The service will be moving from the Live platform to Azure providing a bigger infrastructure to allow future growth. Also outages should be a thing of the past. The update will take unto 24 hours to complete and during […]
Microsoft’s OEM training website has a zipped video on “Vail” available for download. The title may be a handful, but Windows Home Server Code Name “Vail”: Product and OPK Deep Dive, is worth a watch. Here is how the OEM site describes the video: View demonstrations of new functionality in the preview version of Windows […]
On display at CES is the LaCie 5Big Backup Server featured in the Windows PC showcase, but instead oh having v1 of Windows Home Server installed upon it this one has Windows 7 Home Server. A Microsoft representative also confirmed to website "i started something" that Windows 7 Home Server was indeed the official name […]
On the 10th January the beta version of Vail will expire making the server unavailable or making it shutdown every hour. Since there is no workaround for this it is important that you move any data which you wish to save off of your Vail server before Jan 10th. A new build of Vail will […]
