Mailbag 31st May 2011 Have a question or problem? I can’t guarantee an answer, but I’ll try. Click “ask a question” above! Aron Asks: Well, so far, so good with my experience with WHSv1… but I’m having some serious add-in withdrawal! Mainly Jones-ing for Web Folders 4 WHS. What an excellent add-in that was. I can’t […]
Episode 45 of the BYOB podcast is available and this weeks show has details about the 2TB limit in Windows Home Server 2011 and the guys chat about different backup strategies. You can find episode 45 here.
The other day we informed you that WHS2011 was now appearing at some smaller online retailers, but now the big guys have it too. Amazon.com are now shipping it and although they are showing a list price of $149.99, they are selling it for $124.50. Newegg on the other hand have it available for $119.99. […]
My Movies the media management add-in for Windows Home Server users has had an update. For v1 users of Windows Home Server you have the choice of version 1.6.1.6 or version 2.00 Pre Release 1. For 1.6.1.6 the change log is as follows: Added: Option in advanced configuration to reboot server once AnyDVD is updated. […]
Tom Tziegmann has a good tip for those of you performing an unattended install of Windows Home Server 2011. If you try to use the unattended install cfg.ini file again, the install will fail since the install process places some additional code into this file. Removing this code will enable the install process to continue. […]
We informed you last week of Windows Home Server going on sale in Japan as well as many other countries, and from this event in Japan came some interesting news. As we can see from the following pic, I-O DATA have a Windows Home Server 2011 NAS coming soon: This unit will be equipped with […]
Wow…These guys are quick at fixing things and its the 3rd update this week. StableBit DrivePool is now at build 1675, and includes the following minor changes: Removing a folder with read-only files would error out with an access denied. Fixed open context enumeration error (affects new remove drive code). Do not notify about un-duplicated […]
Organising Music on a Home Server is an article by Dan Gravell which takes a look at the different types of Home server’s including a NAS and WHS itself and how they are ideal for storing music. The article looks at why you can grant access to the music for your music players around your […]
PCWorld takes a look at Windows Home Server 2011 and its features and asks if its worth upgrading to if you are using the current version of WHS. Lloyd Case then takes us through a basic setup of WHS2011 using a mini-ITX setup, to see how things have improved. You can read Lloyd’s article here.
Another day and another release for StableBit DrivePool. The Drive Extender replacement add-in is now up to build 1671, and includes the following changes: [Driver] Tweaked the unmount timeout algorithm to prevent automatic unmount on sleep. Fixed alert monitoring error. Write error notifications were not being issued for non-duplicated folders. (you may need to delete […]
