Brad Wilson had a hard drive with bad blocks which when he tried to remove from Windows Home server displayed the following 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.
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.
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.
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 has plenty of news items this week.
You can listen to Dave, Jim and John right here.
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.
From our contributors Steve Crick, Gary Quigley, Matthew Glover, Al West and myself Philip Churchill – Thanks guys!
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
And everything syncs together too.
You can read more here.
The add-in CloudBerry Backup for Windows Home Server has been updated to version 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:
CloudBerry Online Backup for Windows Home Server is available for $29.99 and a 30 day trial is also available – More details here.
If you would like to know how to install PowerShell onto Windows Home Server then Maximo Trinidad has the details.
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.
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.
Lights-Out enables you to put a Windows Home Server into suspended mode or hibernation and resume on user defined events.
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:
More details are available from here.
