Website Home Server Hacks have a tutorial on changing your web site image on the Windows Home Server remote access site. Read it here.
PC Magazine looks at the best network storage for home and small business. Included in the roundup is the HP MediaSmart Server EX470, the LaCie Ethernet Disk mini–Home Edition, the Iomega StorCenter Pro 150d (3 terabyte) and finally the NetApp StoreVault S300. We wont spoil it for you but one of them won the Editors […]
Macworld Expo is under way in San Francisco and CEO Steve Jobs has announced Apple’s new offering which will be available from this February (2008). Time Capsule will automatically back up every Mac in the home with its large server grade hard drive and a built in Airport Express base station using the wireless 802.11n […]
Musings, Ramblings, and the Occasional Useful Information is what The Sean Blog is all about and they currently have a list of the top 25 blogs on TechNet and MSDN. And currently at the number 2 position is the Windows Home Server Team Blog. Yahoo, open the champagne….is there a doctor in the house!?! Sorry […]
Windows Home Server Disk Management is a new add-in which is an extension of the server storage interface, making it easier to identify the hard drives via a visual display. Seeing which drive is the system drive and the amount of data being used on each drive has now become easier. Features Pending: The big […]
HP emailed me yesterday with details about the Windows Home Server data corruption issue. Here’s what they had to say: On December 21st, Microsoft announced that in some situations, customers could experience data corruption/loss when using Windows Home Server. While this issue occurs only during specific simultaneous combinations of activities under specific circumstances, HP and […]
Blogger Scott Hanselman has the details on how to turn on duplication of the backups database, which is disabled by default on Windows Home Server. Scott says that there could be a performance hit once it is enabled via a registry key and reminds us that it is totally unsupported but as he states “it’s […]
As you may be aware, discussions were underway between the the Product Group and the Subscriptions Teams regarding making Windows Home Server available to MSDN subscribers and at the time it looked promising. But unfortunately the bad news is that it will not be available as a MSDN Subscriber Download at this time but then […]
The Knowledge Base article from Microsoft documenting the data corruption issue has been updated. Updated on January 11th and now at revision 3.0 the latest info published is that the WHS team have now reproduced the issue which is extremely good news as now it will be easier for a fix to be worked on, […]
Over on the eWEEK Microsoft Watch blog, author Joe Wilcox has been chatting to Brian Burch, Hewlett-Packard’s marketing director for the Managed Home Business Personal Systems group at CES 2008 about the company’s Windows Home Server system the MediaSmart Server. Brian said: “Sales are so brisk, they’re too good. HP sold its planned three months […]
