File Conflicts Prevented Hard Drive Removal

Brad Wilson had a hard drive with bad blocks which when he tried to remove from Windows Home server displayed the following error message:

File Conflicts Prevented Hard Drive Removal Error Message

Brad managed to rescue his using a copy of ROBOCOPY which is a part of the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit.

You can read his story here.

Microsoft’s Best-Kept Secret

NEWSFACTOR.com classes Windows Home Server as one of the undiscovered tech products of 2009 alongside the likes of Google Voice and cloud based password management utility Lastpass

Windows Home Server is probably Microsoft ‘s best-kept secret, and that’s a shame.

You can read the undiscovered tech products of 2009 here.

WHS and Windows Media Center

Entertainment 2.0 is a podcast about digital media which we all use in our daily life’s, and in the latest episode 57 hosts Josh Pollard and Adam Thursby are joined by special guest Dave McCabe from The Home Server Show podcast.

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Dave chats about his Media Center experiences and tells us how Windows Home Server can be used to help add some functionality to MCE (Media Center Edition).

You can catch the podcast here.

The Home Server Show Podcast Episode 69

The Home Server Show podcast episode 69 has plenty of news items this week.

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You can listen to Dave, Jim and John right here.

Twas the Night before Christmas

We would like to wish all our readers a wonderful Christmas/happy holidays (depending on your faith) and wish you a wonderful time with family, friends and your Home Servers 🙂

A wonderful photo from the WHS page on Facebook.

WHS Happy Holidays 2009

From our contributors Steve Crick, Gary Quigley, Matthew Glover, Al West and myself Philip Churchill – Thanks guys!

Integrate Multiple Devices with WHS

How do you integrate multiple Windows Media Center computers, Zunes, an XBox 360, and also a Windows Home Server?

Easy, and here’s a basic home network map

Home Network Map

And everything syncs together too.

You can read more here.

Add-In: CloudBerry Backup for WHS 1.3.3

The add-in CloudBerry Backup for Windows Home Server has been updated to version 1.3.3.

CloudBerry Backup for WHS 1.3.3

The online backup service for Home Server users now provides full support for Drive Extender, a backup windows where you can setup how long to run a backup plan. e.g. you can have it start every day at midnight and finish by  6AM  and better support for Volume Shadow Service.

If you are unaware CloudBerry Backup for Windows Home Server provides the following features:

  • Easy installation and configuration
  • Seemlesly integrates with WHS control panel
  • Default backup plan is designed to quickly start WHS data backup
  • Scheduling capabilities
  • Data encryption
  • Data retention schedule
  • Secure online storage
  • Data versioning
  • Differential backup
  • The ability to restore to a particular date
  • Backup verification

CloudBerry Online Backup for Windows Home Server is available for $29.99 and a 30 day trial is also available – More details here.

PowerShell on Home Server

If you would like to know how to install PowerShell onto Windows Home Server then Maximo Trinidad has the details.

PowrShell on WHS

Maximo takes you step by step through the process to get PowerShell setup and configured on our Home Server’s, which you can read here.

How to get Mac Time Machine working with WHS

Jeremy Jones has updated his post on how to backup your Mac using Time Machine to a Windows Home Server

Jeremy states that there has been many updates to Windows Home Server and Mac OS X that has complicated the process and therefore previous methods will probably not work.

The good news is that he has documented a easy process to get your Mac Time Machine working with Windows Home Server again, and posted a video as well which you can find here.

Add-In: Lights-Out 1.0.0.0

Lights-Out enables you to put a Windows Home Server into suspended mode or hibernation and resume on user defined events.

Lights-Out 1.0.0.0

The latest 1.0.0.0 version is now available as 2 versions. A free community edition and a licensed edition for €15 personal/€25 commercial.

What’s New:

  • Support for non WHS clients like Macs, Xbox, streaming clients
  • Support for process, file, cpu and network load monitoring
  • Scheduled wake-up, backups and a client option to shut down after backup
  • Localized for English, German, French, Spanish and Chinese
  • Polished GUI

More details are available from here.