If you would like to know how to install PowerShell onto Windows Home Server then Maximo Trinidad has the details. Maximo takes you step by step through the process to get PowerShell setup and configured on our Home Server’s, which you can read here.
Jeremy Jones has updated his post on how to backup your Mac using Time Machine to a Windows Home Server Jeremy states that there has been many updates to Windows Home Server and Mac OS X that has complicated the process and therefore previous methods will probably not work. The good news is that he […]
Lights-Out enables you to put a Windows Home Server into suspended mode or hibernation and resume on user defined events. The latest 1.0.0.0 version is now available as 2 versions. A free community edition and a licensed edition for €15 personal/€25 commercial. What’s New: Support for non WHS clients like Macs, Xbox, streaming clients Support […]
TigerDirect’s com.puter.tv channel has a 4 minute video on the HP StorageWorks X510 Data Vault Windows Home Server which is worth a look if you want to see what the X510/EX495 looks like in the flesh.
Windows sysadmin Claus Valca wanted a way to RDP to his copy of Windows 7 Home Premium, which doesn’t allow connections to it. So he copied over 4 files from a Windows 7 build which does support the full Windows Remote Desktop, and now has it working. You can find out how he done it […]
If you are running a headless Windows Home Server such as the HP MediaSmart Servers you best option is to use the Windows Home Server Console from a Windows or Mac Computer. However, it is possible to use Remote Desktop (RDP) to connect to your server and there are many clients out there for a […]
A few months back I was tinkering with creating Windows Home Server Add-Ins in Visual Studio. I started work on an Anti-Virus Add-In based around ClamAV, the open source (GPL) anti-virus toolkit. I’m considering continuing the project and I’m interested to know how much interest there would be in such an Add-In. If you would […]
The Linux community has been busy creating Greyhole, which is based on the Windows Home Server Drive Extender concept, but open source, running on Linux Greyhole is an application that uses Samba to create a storage pool of all your available hard drives (whatever their size, however they’re connected), and allows you to create redundant […]
Due this month (December) was software from HP for owners of the previous generation EX47x and EX48x MediaSmart Servers to update them to the latest version 3 software. But unfortunately due to compatibility problems with PP3 and also the media streaming software the update will not be available till Febuary 2010. HP has also confirmed […]
Windows guru Paul Thurrott has a review of Power Pack 3 up on his SuperSite for Windows site. Paul also has a tip on the Windows 7 library support. If you have a lot of shared folders then your library is going to be rather bloated, but as Paul states it is easily rectified by […]
