We love home builds here at mswhs.com, and it’s great to see "Black Jacque" contribution to the community. Posting on the Ars Technica forums, "Black Jacque" gives his parts list for a Vail mini-itx Windows Home Server utilizing an Intel Atom D525 CPU. Its a fully comprehensive guide which covers why each individual component was […]
Episode 111 of "The Home Server Show" podcast has the weeks Home Server news, including a couple of Builds and add-ins with guests AJ Peck and Michael Ross. You can catch it here.
A cheap Windows Home Server build for $350 in this YouTube video. The build utilizes the Phenom II X2 Black Edition CPU and 2GB of DDR3 RAM, but if you watch the video till the end remember to install the hard drive within the case before installing the CPU cooler!
Version 6.0.28 of TwonkyServer for XP/Vista/Windows 7 and of course WHS users is now available. This latest version includes the following fixes: TMS-Rescan set to specific number of minutes is not working properly Add custom DLNA profile for MKV to improve interop with certain clients CDS contains duplicate resource entries with same resolution in one […]
The add-in Home Server SMART was updated to version 1.1.36.6 on 2nd November 2010. Home Server SMART enables you to monitor the health of your hard disks attached to WHS, by examining the SMART. data exposed by your disks. The following bugs are addressed in this version: The dreaded "WMI worker process has encountered an […]
Microsoft announced today "Aurora" will be released in the first half of 2011 and will be officially known as Small Business Server 2011 Essentials. Marketed as an ideal first server for a small business, SBS 2011 Essentials can be used by up to 25 users and requires no CALs for user access. The software will […]
It seems like their is another server product in the works according to ZDNet blogger Mary-Jo Foley. Code named Breckenridge, Mary states that it is a derivative of Windows Home Server Vail that is optimized to function as a storage server. Although no specifics are available as yet, Mary Jo Foley’s All About Microsoft blog […]
– Windows Home Server Custom Build – Windows Home Server – This organization’s certificate has been revoked – Recovering Files from a Failed Windows Home Server – Adding new drive to Windows Home Server needs partitioning Another week with many emails flooding my inbox, there always seems to be a trend to the emails. Last […]
Introduction This article will cover installing VMWare Virtual Server 2.0 on Windows Home Server and setting up guest operating systems. Part 1 covered the steps in upgrading the hardware in an HP MediaSmart Server EX490 to deal with virtualization. You will need a copy of VMWare Server 2.0.2, a License Key (given for free after […]
DVBLogic have released an update to their TVSource and Server Network Pack components for their tuner card/s in WHS solution. Version 3.2 beta 2 includes the following changes from beta 1: General – Fixed: DVBLink MCE launcher not hidden sometimes – Added: Channel numbers are taken from xmltv during EPG channel mapping – Fixed: autopopulating […]
