Website “Using Windows Home Server” have got 10 two year subscriptions to HomeServerSync to give away. The add-in enables you to backup your Home Server online, synchronize your Home Server and PCs and join both together in their own private and secure VPN network, plus there’s lots more it can do too. The first 2 […]
High-tech news site eWeek.com have concerns over the positioning and options for customer growth for Aurora. Their 2 page article is worth a read as it asks the question what will Aurora customers have down the road as their company grows beyond Aurora’s preset licensing limitations and user cap. You can read it here.
Many Windows Home Server users used Live Mesh with their servers, until it was renamed Windows Live Sync that was. Today its been announced that Windows Live Sync will be called Windows Live Mesh when released this fall and as well as resorting to its previous name the service will also include 5GB for online […]
Nick Asseloos from Asoft has just released version 1.1 of the WHS Version Vail Developer Kit. The kit is an all-in-one package for those of you who want to create/build/install an add-in for Vail. Version 1.1 supports the latest version of Windows Home Server – build 7659 – and contains a lot more information than […]
TechAU.TV down in Australia have a video where they are interviewing Rosemary Stark and Jeff Alexander from Microsoft to discuss the upcoming releases of Windows Home Server. Both Vail and Aurora are talked about in this 20 minute video.
After our warning the other day about using advanced format hard drives in version 1 of Windows Home Server, Microsoft have also published a Knowledge Base article explaining the problem. The article (KB2385637) explains that if you are using one of these drives in Windows Home Server v1 for either Server Backup, the Storage Pool […]
Microsoft’s official Small Business Server blog has published some interesting resources on Windows Small Business Server Code Name “Aurora” to enable you to get a “hands on” with the product. First up is a product overview guide which provides an overview of the benefits of a server-based small business solution and introduces Windows Small Business […]
The German language "Bjoerns Windows Blog" have posted 2 themes for Windows Home Server users. One for Aurora and the other for Vail. The background images contained within the theme matches the design of the two servers plus the window color and the sound scheme can also be changed. You just download and run either […]
We mentioned the other day a post by PricklyTech on how to add an advanced format drive to your Windows Home Server storage pool. But what he hadn’t considered was the performance of the drive, since one reader was only getting 40 Mb/s on his advanced format drive. So the writer tested his newly added […]
Home System Integration asks the question "Is My Movies the Windows Home Server and Media Centers Ultimate add-in?" It possibly could be. The sites Senior Editor Tom Abell (a.k.a. Billy) had this to say: …if you are running a Windows OS centric home, you have a Windows Home Server, and want to have the richest […]
