Windows PC’s are automatically added to the backup which takes place in a round robin style nightly but if you are using a Mac you end up with a launch pad and access to the server, but no default backup. Our friend Sean Daniel (with help from Fabian and Craig) has put together the steps […]
Microsoft have another video in their Learning Bites series on how to add some very low cost and easy to implement redundancy for your data using software raid which is available from the underlying Windows Server 2008R2 operating system. This allows you to continue using the server until you are able to schedule a maintenance […]
If you use the blog writing software Windows Live Writer then did you know that there is a way of fooling it, so you can store both your drafts and published posts on your Windows Home Server enabling you to access them on any computer on your home network or via the WHS remote access […]
More Virtualization is on offer this time courtesy of ServerTheHome who have a simple guide to creating a VMware ESXi virtual machine for NexentaStor. Just over a year ago I created The Big WHS on a platform of Windows Server 2008 R2 with Windows Home Server installed in Hyper-V. Simply put, this may have been […]
If your Backup Service refuses to run on Windows Home Server then website "Random Musings" has a post for you. The post explains how to recover from this error which can also appear as a "Failed to delete backups" error message, which you can read here.
Mashable.com has some ideas for using the popular sync app Dropbox and one of their tips is for those techno Gods amongst you ion how to use Dropbox with Vail using a feature in Vail called RemoteApp: Basically it allows you to launch a self-contained streaming instance of an application that is installed on the […]
MVP Nigel Wilks has posted a guide at MediaSmartServer.net on how to correct some bugs that are present in the 3.0 software for the HP MediaSmart Server and the Data Vault. Nigel explains how to fix the missing "HP MediaSmart Server Home Page" icon. As well as fixing a typo in one of the help […]
As we informed you last week, today is the day when the Windows Home Server Vail beta expires, and moves into Windows Server 2008 R2 Expiry mode where the server reboots hourly. No data will be lost during an expiry, and users will still be able to access the server if needed to. Since the […]
The Google help forum has a great tip from user "droidxipod" who uses DVDFab to backup his DVD movies to Windows Home server. Droidxipod explains how he plays his DVD video collection on his Motorola Droid X by using a profile and converter within the software "Aunsoft Video Converter". You can find the details here.
A couple of tutorials are available on using the app "Air Video" to stream video to a portable Apple device over Wi-Fi or the internet. The first is from HomeServerLand who also explain how to install the server component of the app onto Windows Home Server as well as how to convert your video content […]
