By on April 17th, 2012

Two Editions Only for Windows 8 Plus Media Center available as an Add-In

Microsoft have announced that Windows 8 is the official product name for the next x86/64 editions of Windows and that there will only be two editions, Windows 8 and Windows 8 Pro.

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Windows 8 will be targeted towards consumers whilst Windows 8 Pro is targeted towards tech enthusiasts and business/technical professionals, and will include the following over the consumer edition:

  • BitLocker and BitLocker To Go
  • Boot from VHD
  • Client Hyper-V
  • Domain Join
  • Encrypting File System
  • Group Policy
  • Remote Desktop (host)
  • Upgrades from Windows 7 Professional, Ultimate (as well as Windows 7 Starter, Home Basic and Home Premium)

Windows on ARM or WOA is now officially known as Windows RT for would be Tablet purchasers and will include Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote) and Device encryption as standard.

The other big news is Microsoft have also announced that Windows Media Center will be available as an economical “media pack” add-on to Windows 8 Pro only. As for economical there is no mention of price or what else will be included in this media pack.

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By on April 16th, 2012

Add-In: InteliSAN LDisk v3.0.0.2

InteliSAN LDisk has been updated to version 3.0.0.2.

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Due to a minor packaging issue in version 3.0.0.1 this latest version has been released. The packaging issue could affect the windows dashboard. You might not have noticed anything and there is no functional change, but InteliSAN decided to correct this and release this new package (3.0.0.2).

More details on InteliSAN LDisk can be found here.

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By on April 16th, 2012

The BYOB Podcast Episode 83

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Episode 83 of the BYOB podcast is up.

This week’s episode of the "Build Your Own Box" podcast has guest Michael Ross talking about his really impressive systems and his thoughts on media and cutting the cord.

You can find it here.

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By on April 15th, 2012

Restoring a 64-bit Computer Using WHS v1

Remember if you are restoring a 64-bit computer using version 1 of Windows Home Server you will manually have to find drivers for your hard drive and network card manually.

WHS v1 Restore CD

Microsoft blog "All Your Base Are Belong To Us" has the details.

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By on April 14th, 2012

Add-In: InteliSAN LDisk v3.0.0.1

InteliSAN have released version 3.0.0.1 of their LDisk Disk Pooling and iSCSI Target storage add-in for WHS-2011, WSS-e, and SBS-2011e.

LDisk Scalability

OK, fifteen changes in this latest release and here they are:

  1. XEN Server iSCSI support
  2. Cosmetics changes in NAS+SAN tab
  3. VMWare/ESX iSCSI support
  4. Ability to change Disk names using properties menu to help with disk identification
  5. More user friendly iSCSI Expansion tab menus
  6. Mouse over text corrections for tabs and pie chart
  7. Initiator status now shows part of the initiator name when connected or logged in.
  8. Ability to widen or shorten the columns of all the tabs
  9. Improved Initiator Connect-Disconnect popup appearance
  10. New Licensing method (Web based activation)
  11. Inquiry command passes volume name to initiator. Easier identification of iSCSI disks in Initiator
  12. Automatic daily Configuration Backup
  13. Block 1G-Stripe volume creation
  14. iSCSI Performance tuning related to Windows-7
  15. Automatic software update notification

InteliSAN LDisk is free for 30 days after which pricing starts at $29.

More details on LDisk are available from here.

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By on April 13th, 2012

The Home Server Show Podcast Episode 179

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SBS, WHS 2011, Multipoint Server and Drive Extender are all talked about on this weeks edition of The Home Server Show podcast.

Small Business Server MVP Susan Bradley joins Dave, John and Jim in episode 179 which you can find here.

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By on April 12th, 2012

Add-In: KeepVault v4.15

Online backup provider KeepVault has updated their software to version 4.15

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This latest release has the following changes:

  • The max file size increases from 20GB to 200GB
  • Backup of password protected network shares is now supported
  • Better handling for backup of hidden files and folders

More information on KeepVault for WHS v1, WHS 2011, SBS Essentials 2011 and Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials can be found here, whilst the software is available from here.

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By on April 12th, 2012

Virtual Machine hosting platform on WHS 2011

Matthew Hodgkins has been in touch to let us know that he has posted part 2 of his article on running VirtualBox directly on Windows Home Server 2011.

In this 2nd installment Matthew explains how to automatically start and stop virtual machines on both boot-Up and shutdown and how to use the Windows Home Server user accounts to access the VirtualBox web interface.

IIS Manager for VirtualBox Web Interface

But there’s more:

One of the great features of VirtualBox is the remote desktop access to the Virtual Machines using the Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol. phpVirtualBox utilizes this to allow us to remotely manage our virtual machines using the web interface.

A very comprehensive tutorial on getting VirtualBox configured enabling you to have a great Virtual Machine hosting platform on top of Windows Home Server 2011.

You can find the second part of How to run VirtualBox on WHS 2011 here.

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By on April 11th, 2012

SBS, MultiPoint Server and Storage Essentials Podcast

Microsoft Small Business Specialist Tim Barrett is on episode 27 of the "Need To Know Podcast" talking about Small Business Server, MultiPoint Server and Storage Essentials.

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An interesting listen to find out what server technology you can use in a small business environment.

You can find all 53 minutes of episode 27 here.

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By on April 11th, 2012

Add-In: StableBit DrivePool Build 6008

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StableBit DrivePool the Drive Extender type add-in for WHSD 2011 users has had an update.

Version 1.0.1.6008 has the following changes:

  • When setting duplication on a read-only folder, it used to error out with access denied.
  • Do not error out on in-use duplicated files / other expected error conditions when removing disks from the pool.

More information on StableBit DrivePool can be found here.

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