Episode 97 of the BYOB podcast is up: “This week BYOB discusses Some Windows 8 RTM issues. Server 2012 Essentials. Cord cutting updates.” You can find episode 97 here.
Rong Yu, program manager on the Windows Server 2012 Essentials team has written an article on how to migrate to Windows Server 2012 Essentials from another server: “One common scenario for migration is that users want to upgrade from a previous version of Windows Small Business Server (Windows SBS) or Windows Server. You may also […]
It’s that time again for another episode of "The Home Server Show" podcast. And in this week’s show: The Windows Server 2012 Essentials Release Candidate is now available so we are trying to make some sense of it compared to the last version we saw. We also briefly dive into the topic of where you […]
Add-in My Movies for Windows Home Server 2011 had an update today to version 2.12. Here’s the change log for this latest release: Added: Better failure information on blu-ray TV Series that cannot be converted because of missing disc mapping. Added: Facebook login. Changed: Info on converter profiles in settings is now shown in a […]
Paul Thurrott has an article on overcoming the Library limitations in Windows 8 which is a great read for Windows Home Server users. The article reminds us how the library feature functions and then goes on to tell us how to add removable storage and network locations to a library which is what us Home […]
For the first time in 25 years Microsoft have their selves a new logo: …the new Microsoft logo takes its inspiration from our product design principles while drawing upon the heritage of our brand values, fonts and colors. The logo has two components: the logotype and the symbol. For the logotype, we are using the […]
The add-in LDisk-D has been updated to version 3.0.0.5 This add-in adds iSCSI Target Storage/SAN capability to Windows Home Server-2011, Windows Storage Server-Essentials, and SBS-2011-Essentials. Using LDisk™ or LDisk-D, you can create a single appliance to provide all your storage and backup needs. This latest release has licensing changes More details on LDisk-D are available […]
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Windows Server 2012 Essentials has just gone to Release Candidate (RC) stage. WS2012e RC is now available for you to download and evaluate the Windows Server Essentials and Small Business Server blog informed us today. Being the successor to WHS 2011 here are just some of the major changes in RC: Increased support for importing […]
StableBit have an article on their blog about the 1.2 beta version of StableBit DrivePool. The article takes a look at the new balancing system, which can be built in or third party plug-ins: “…a balancer is responsible for moving pooled files around the individual pooled drives. Keep in mind that this is only happening […]
