If you have My Movies for iPad, iPhone or Android version 1.80 then you may be wondering how the download option from Windows Home Server functions. Answer: The download function allows your iPad, iPhone or Android to connect to My Movies for Windows Home Server 2011 either in-house, or out of the house. For the […]
As you may to aware Windows 8 (both the Consumer Preview and Server "8") includes Storage Spaces, a technology very similar to what Drive Extender was in version 1 of Windows Home Server. Website AddictiveTips have a post where they explain what Storage Spaces actually is and also take you through creating a virtual storage […]
Iv been playing with the Windows 8 Consumer Preview for the last 2 days with Windows Home Server 2011 and here are two issues which I encountered: WHS 2011 will backup Windows 8 storage pool drives with no problem BUT you will only be able to do a file based restore only. I amongst other […]
Microsoft WHS MVP, Grey Lancaster explains in two short YouTube videos how to setup RAID on the HP ProLiant MicroServer (part 1) and getting it configured in SBS 2011 Essentials (which also applies to WHS 2011 too) in part 2. Part 1 Part 2
If you are trying to install the WHS 2011 connector onto the Consumer Preview edition of Windows 8 then you will find that the installation process will hang at about the 90% completed mark. The connector was working fine with the Developer edition of Windows 8 but there is a workaround which works for most […]
Gunnar Peipman explains how to create your own gadget blocks for WHS 2011 web add-in user interface. “To keep user interface of your Windows Home Server 2011 (WHS) web add-in similar to other parts of UI you may need styled blocks like shown on WHS web interface home page. In this post I will show […]
If you would like to know how to set up Windows Home Server 2011 in a development environment then Gunnar Peipman is your man. Gunnar has written a post explaining how to use the new API-s which you can use to extend the WHS web and desktop interfaces in Windows Home Server 2011. You can […]
If you are thinking of installing the WHS 2011 connector software onto the Windows 8 Developer Preview then you may come across a small problem. It seems for some users that the connector software from Windows Home Server 2011 will install onto the Developer Preview version of Windows 8 but “http://<SERVER_NAME>/connect” wont let you install […]
The How-To-Geek has another Windows Home Server how-to for us and this time its about setting up email notifications for your Home Server. "Since our home servers are constantly on, and often headless, it is nice to know when certain events happen on your server without having to log in and check all the time. […]
If you have an Xbox 360 then you can access your Windows Home Server’s multimedia on it. Brian Burgess explains how to get this setup using the Video Player and Music Player apps on Microsoft’s games console. You can find Brian’s post here.
