The Windows Home Server Toolkit technical overview is the title of another live web seminar being offered on Microsoft’s Partner Program web site. The Tool Kit is a collection of utilities that can help users diagnose Windows Home Server installation and operation related issues within their home networks. This webcast will give a technical overview […]
For those of you wishing to tinker and write add-ins for Windows Home server, then don’t forget the Windows Home Server Software Development Kit (SDK) in it’s final version is available to help you. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb743248.aspx
The guys and girls at alwil software have been really busy.They have just updated their antivirus solution for Windows home Server to version 2.1 beta to include the following improvements: Finally sets the firewall exceptions correctly on all OS’s (i.e. communication with the WHS console should now work immediately, unless a 3rd party firewall product […]
Another comprehensive review of WHS is online. Entitled Windows Home Server – Sysadmin Made Easy!, the 7 page article can be found at the Asian HardwareZone Community website. The review first looks at the minimum requirements for Home server and then goes through the client installation. Backup and restore and user accounts are looked at […]
When installing software on the Server directly, it is fine to use the default installation directory (usually C:\Program Files) especially for utility software like defragmentation tools, anti virus solutions and third-party backup software. But remember the system drive C: has only 20GB allocated to it (in the RTM version), so installing too much software on […]
I posed a question to you readers a couple of days ago regarding the version information displayed on the Resources tab within the console. My clean OEM install after Windows Update showed the following: Whilst my friends server and others from the WHS forums were showing: As you can see my “Windows Home Server Backup […]
I received an email from one of our blog readers Scott Mathews, who asked the following: Hey Philip, I’m in the middle of a total redesign of my home network, and only just discovered WHS (I was goggling for “NAS vs USB” and some posts favored WHS).Part of my goal is to get high quality […]
The windows Home Server edition of avast! Antivirus has been updated to beta 2 (WHS: 4.7.18, Home/Pro: 4.7.1066). Beta 2 has: Resolved the problem with inaccessible WHS shares Improved code for setting Windows firewall exceptions Minor GUI changes/improvements Scheduled to be released in the first half of November 2007, you have only a couple of […]
When copying data to your Home Server always use \\<server name>\<share name> rather than D:\shares\<share name>. Files copied to the shares via \\<server name>\<share name> are managed through Drive Extender but if you copy files directly they may not be put in the correct location (particularly if you have more than one drive in your […]
Home Server Linux Style Now that Windows Home server is available to buy, two Linux projects have come to my attention that ain to have a piece of the pie. The Linux Home Server HOWTO by Miles Brennan explores the concepts and configurations for establishing a fully functional Internet connected network environment for your […]
