An Xbox Home Server? Why not says ZDNet’s Simon Bisson whilst talking about the future of Windows Home Server. Simon asks the question: So if Home Server is on the move, where should it go? And states: Thinking about it, there’s one logical home for Home Server’s software, and another for its hardware. Personally I […]
Update Release 2 (UR2) for Windows Home Server v1 is available today and will be available from Windows Update and will automatically download as long as you have automatic updates turned on within the console. UR2 also known as Knowledge Base article 981089 fixes 8 issues with Windows Home Server: When using Windows Internet Explorer […]
Microsoft would like your help. The Home and Small Business Server documentation team would like you to visit the Windows Server Code Name “Vail” Online Help and Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials Online Help websites, check the content, then click What do you think of this website? Take a quick survey at the top […]
CloudBerry Lab has just announced version 1.9 of CloudBerry Backup for WHS. Available for Home Server v1, Vail and also Aurora this latest version includes the following new features: Intelligent include/ exclude folder functionality Imagine the situation: you select the folder to backup up and then select only a subset of folders and files underneath […]
Microsoft’s Sean Daniel is giving a presentation on SBS 2011 Essentials and Standard in BC, Canada. The Vancouver Island Computing Experts(?) User Group presents the event which takes place in Victoria, British Columbia at the Camosun College Lansdowne on the 2nd February between 06:30PM and 09:30 PM. Join Sean Daniel Senior Program Manager from Microsoft […]
Here’s a great YouTube video of a Windows Home Server Mini ITX build. User Ratti3 uses a Zotac NM10-B-E DTX Atom motherboard and a Lian Li PC-Q08B case which is ideal for future expansion, is made of aluminum and takes a normal size PSU.
Microsoft executive Kevin Kean talks to Paul Thurrott about SBS 2011 Standard and Essentials. As you may be aware Small Business Server 2011 Essentials was originally called by the codename Aurora and is part of the Colorado family (Vail, Breckenridge and Aurora) and has similar features to Windows Home Server Vail. Paul’s Q&A session can […]
Episode 120 of "The Home Server Show" podcasts is up, this week offering you lots of different options for Windows Home Server backups, retention, restoring and cloud backups. Is it worth a listen? It certainly is and you can find this weeks episode here.
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 […]
The add-in Duplicate File Finder has had an update. Version 1.3.4026.39950 address the following: Improved speed fetching files Maximum DB size error Handling of files with a creation date of earlier than year 1753 The ability to export the result to a CSV file You can download it from here.
