The BYOB podcast for this week is available: This week we are joined by Chris Lux to finish off the media series and talk about Windows Media Center and Vudu. We talk about the PS4, Chromebook Pixel, and Media Browser 3. You can find episode 113 here.
If you are quick you can save 35% on a Drive Bender for WHS license. The Drive Bender for WHS license (supports Windows Home Server 2011 and SBS Essentials 2011 ONLY) normally costs $25 but is currently on sale for $15.95, but hurry as the offer expires shortly. More details are available from here.
ASoft the company behind add-ins AutoExit and AdminMe have redesigned their website with a nice clean interface. For more info on these 2 great add-ins head on over to their new site here.
Its time for another episode of "The Home Server Show" podcast and this week its "When a NAS fits better than a server": When is it better to use a NAS rather than a server in a small business? Some will say never and I’m sure there are dozens of different answers but I have […]
The beta build of StableBit DrivePool for WHS2011, SBS 2011 Essentials and Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials has had an update. Version 1.3.0.7415 BETA has miscellaneous fixes and is probably the last beta before the final release: Fixed extra metadata generation by disk identification (port from 2.0). [D] Driver prohibition (port from 2.0). The […]
My Movies Home and Essentials Server Solution for WHS 2011 and Windows Server 2012 Essentials has had an update. Version 2.13 Build 2 has the following changes: Fix: AnyDVD registration was broken. Fix: Changes to the backup method, to hopefully resolve out of memory errors for some users. This release can be downloaded from here.
Version 1.4.7.8 (RC1) of Drive Bender is available with SMART updates and performance improvements. Here’s the beta change log: Update: Improved the file deleting speed for folders will a large number of files. Update: The file handling performance has been dramatically improved. Bug fix: Manually activation can fail with an error. Update: S.M.A.R.T. drive detection […]
Episode 112 of the BYOB podcast is up: “Light show this week, VUDU, UltraViolet, TMT 5, Insteon, Livescribe Sky Wifi Pen on this weeks BYOB Podcast.” You can find all 39 minutes of this weeks episode from here.
You may be aware that there is a registry hack to stop WS2012e setting up its own Active Directory domain which stops client computers from automatically being added to that domain, but performing the hack can lead to the WSE Connector software altering the network settings on the client computer routeing all DNS requests through […]
A series of articles from the Petri IT Knowledgebase on WS2012 Essentials. Their first article explains how to to configure WS2012e. Additional articles will explain how to use the Office365 Configuration Wizard and how to run through the WS2012 Essentials backup and Anywhere Access configuration and user management. You can read part one here.
