Category: Windows Home Server

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Restart WHS from within a Remote Desktop Connection

The "Tenniswood Blog" has a great tip for those of you who use Microsoft Remote Desktop connection in Windows – What do you mean you don’t! The tip explains how to shut down or restart Windows Home Server (or Media Center) from within a Remote Desktop Connection, which you can find here.

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Backing up a Remote PC to WHS

The "Using Windows Home Server" website has a great post on backing up a remote PC (e.g. your parents or a relative) to Windows Home Server using Hamachi. Once the Hamachi network is configured between the remote PC and WHS, automatic backups can be performed as well streaming music to that remote location as well. […]

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The Mother of All Add-Ins

"The Mother of All Add-Ins" might finally not be too far away, and what add-in may this be I here you cry, laugh, scream? That would be "Add-In Central", which is the first and only centralized add-in manager that allows you to browse, download and update add-ins conveniently and automatically through your Windows Home Server […]

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Add-In: Disk Management for Windows Home Server 1.1.2.1997

The Disk Management add-in from fellow MVP Sam Wood is designed for users who need more detail about their server’s storage status than what the standard Server Storage interface provides. It’s also the 1st add-in I install on a Windows Home Server box and the good news is that a new version is finally available […]

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Acer Aspire Revo R3610 review

Today we have a bit of a departure over previous hardware reviews, as the Acer Revo R3610 isn’t specifically designed or sold as a Windows Home Server. We thought that as it was such a neat and compact box, with good spec hardware it might make a handy and capable little server. The Acer Revo […]

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Add-In: Umbrella CTP1

The CodePlex open source community is hosting "Umbrella", the codename for an installation package which installs SharePoint Services 3.0 onto Windows Home Server. Features: SharePoint single server installation Support for language packs Planned Features "Synchronize" SharePoint users Automatic Backup Reference files on WHS in SharePoint lists Full integration into the Home Server Website (including remote […]

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Free Cloud Backup for Comcast Customers

If you are a Comcast customer then you are now entitled to 2GB of cloud storage for FREE. This is their standard storage plan but for just $4.99 per month you can get 50GB or 200GB for just $9.99. This is great pricing, now all we need is some Comcast subscribers to sign up for […]

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Asus TS Mini Reviewed

bit-tech.net has a 4 page review on the Asus TS Mini Windows Home Server. The review looks inside the unit and test its performance by doing file transfer tests. You can find their review here.

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Backup WHS Shared Folders Using Robocopy

If you want be backup your Windows Home Server shared folders to an external NAS drive, you would have noticed that its a manual process and no scheduler is included, but bobbo33 from the Productive Geek forums has come up with a solution. By using Robocopy and creating a WHS User named "Backup", bobbo33 explains […]

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Add-In: DA Document Manager 2010 3.1.100

There is an update to you DA Document Manager 2010 add-in. Version 3.1.100 includes the following changes: Client Connector Fixed, Subcategories in the Workspace Form are still shown for all Categories when they are assigned to only one Category Fixed, Archive Recovery fails if the archive title contains an illegal character (Tilde ~, Open Quote […]