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?
Episode 59 of the BYOB podcast is available: “This week our guest is Greg Welch (Welchworks). We go over his extensive and impressive home network that include WHS servers, Hyper-V virtual machines, HTPCs, Home Automation and more on this weeks BYOB Podcast.” You can find this weeks episode here.
Drive Bender version 1.1.8.4 is here which hopefully puts the folder locking issue to bed. Here’s the change log: Bug fix: When adding, merging or removing a drive to / from the pool, the process could hang and not complete. Bug fix: When upgrading an XP x64 platform, the drivers may not get updated correctly. […]
Using Turkey Club sandwiches as examples, D-Link explain the difference between RAID 0 and RAID 1. If you have a hard job defining these two different RAID systems then this D-Link video is a must see…oh and by the way, I will never look at a Club sandwich in the same light again!
The Windows 8 edition of The Home Server Show podcast is up. The Windows 8 preview is available and it’s an exciting time for Microsoft so we go hands on with it and see how well it plays with Windows Home Server. We discuss the product as well as the newly announced Windows Server 8 […]
After showing the desktop version of Windows 8 at BUILD, on Wednesday Microsoft demonstrated the companion server version of its operating system. With a moto of "It just works", Windows Server 8 it seems will have disk pooling in the product, a feature which was originally in version 1 of Windows Home Server. Aptly named […]
Is Windows Home Server The Most Reliable Backup & File Server? That’s the question website makeuseof asks whilst looking at its cost and the alternatives available. As the article writer states: “I do hope you consider using Windows Home Server to handle your homes file and backup needs, but there will always be free alternatives […]
Dave Hartsock from DavesComputerTips.com has a guide on how to interact with WHS 2011 from your client computers by using the Dashboard. In his guide Dave takes us through the Windows Home Server 2011 dashboard “Home” tab teaching us how to get updates for other Microsoft products, how to set up server backup and Remote […]
StableBit Scanner v2 for Windows Home Server 2011 users has had another update. Here is the change log for version 2.0.0.972: Added drive mount point / drive number to columns in the main disk list. Fixed licensing server address. Deployed the last version pointing to internal test server. Made appropriate changes in the testing setup […]
