Its another week and another episode of The Home Server Show podcast is up.
This week:
Mike Howard from jpeg2RAW and Mike Faucher from BYOB join Dave, John, and Jim to discuss backup issues, cloud storage, and backup strategies. This is a heavy dose of backup with very little news discussion.
You can catch episode 164 here.
Drive Bender for WHS 2011 has had an update.
The Drive Extender type add-in for WHS 2011 users has the following changes in version 1.2.2.2:
Drive Bender for WHS 2011 is available as a 30 day trial after which it will cost you $40 for private use.
More details on Drive Bender are available from here.
During a San Francisco press event yesterday Microsoft announced that a public beta of Windows 8 would be available sometime in late February 2012.
This is great news but it looks like it will miss a release at CES 2012 in January next year. Hopefully Microsoft will demo a near final beta copy at this trade show.
Other details announced at this press event was that the Developer Preview of Windows 8, which was released during the Microsoft Build conference in September 2011, has so far been downloaded over 3 million times and the Windows app store aptly called "Windows Store" will also be available with the public beta of Windows 8.
Small Business Server enthusiast Robert Pearman has posted his experiences with the Office 365 Integration Module for SBS 2011 Essentials.
Robert’s post is broken down into the following 11 sections:
And very thorough Rob’s post is too, which you can read here.
If you don’t wish to purchase software that enables you to host your iTunes application as a service on your Windows Home Server then why not manually get it setup for free.
G. Wade takes us through the steps to get iTunes setup on your WHS machine in 8 easy steps which you can follow here.
Episode 68 of the BYOB podcast is up and this week there is a review of the Western Digital DX4000 which provides Windows Storage Server 2011 R2 Essentials, a look at WHS 2011 on Acronis’s new product True Image Home 2012 and the WDTV Live Hub is revisited.
Lots of interesting content in episode 68, which you can find here.
DeviceMAG has an article on the advantages of NOS (network operating system) over P2P using Windows Home Server 2011.
The article starts of by explaining the differences between a P2P and an NOS network, and how it can fit in your home network.
Its an interesting read which you can find here.
My Movies for Windows Home Server 2011 has had an update.
My Movies for Windows Home Server is a special build of My Movies specifically for Windows Home Server. It can function as a My Movies server for My Movies clients, or it can function as a data provider for Media Center’s movie library, media players such as Dune, TViX or products such as XBMC, Media Portal, Sage TV, Niveus Movie Library and many other. It contains a fully automated disc copier for DVD, HD DVD and Blu-ray titles, as well as a disc copier for audio discs, that allows automated ripping of CD’s to MP3, WMA, WMA Lossless, Flac or WAV.
Version 2.10 PR8 released December 1st 2011 includes the following changes:
More information on My Movies for Windows Home Server is available from here.
Another week and another episode of The Home Server Show podcast is up.
This weeks episode has:
“News on the home server front, CES, Black Friday, HP’s Microserver, and John’s dead MediaSmart Server.”
You can find episode 163 here.
You may remember DA Document Manager, an add-in for Windows Home Server v1 users to help them organize their documents. Now thanks to our friend Bob Crook we can inform you that a version is being worked on for WHS 2011:
Because the new version of WHS is a complete rewrite, it has taken much longer to implement all of the features that were in the prior version. Thank you for your patience.
We look forward to when it is released. In the meantime more information on DA Document Manager can be found here.
