By on October 09th, 2015

Integrating WS Essentials Tech Preview 3 with Azure Virtual Networks

Integrating WS Essentials Tech Preview 3 with Azure Virtual Networks

The Microsoft Australia OEM Team have published a blog post on integrating Windows Server Essentials Tech Preview 3 with Azure Virtual Networks:

…if you need to extend your network into the Azure for the purpose of enabling Azure RemoteApp, virtual machines running a variety of OSs and applications, as well as a variety of other services, this will provide seamless access to the Azure hosted resources from your local network. In this post I’ll focus on the Essentials Dashboard configuration…

In this first part the various steps are detailed (and illistrated) for an easy walk through, which you can find here.

 

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By on October 08th, 2015

Add-In: CloudBerry Backup v4.5

CloudBerry Backup has been updated to version 4.5:

CloudBerry Backup 4.5 comes with a set of new features and enhancements such as the ability to backup and restore NTFS permissions, perform server restore on Amazon EC2 and clear the Archive Bit attribute of the files during the backup.

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Here is the list of new features:

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By on October 01st, 2015

Add-In: StableBit Scanner v2.5.2.3103 BETA

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The beta release of StableBit Scanner has been updated to version 2.5.2.3103 BETA with the following change log:

* Windows 10 support.
– Recompiled everything using Visual Studio 2015.
* Updated WiX Toolset to 3.10 RC.
* Licensing fixes.

More details on StableBit Scanner, the advanced hard disk surface scanner and monitor is available from here.

 

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By on October 01st, 2015

Add-In: StableBit DrivePool v2.2.0.651 BETA

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StableBit have updated the beta version of their pooling add-in, StableBit DrivePool.

Version 2.2.0.651 BETA has the following change:

  • Fixed service crash when last disk in a pool was removed.

As always more information on StableBit DrivePool  is available from here.

 

 

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By on September 25th, 2015

Configure Azure Online Backup on WS2012 R2 Essentials

Configure Azure Backup on WS2012 R2 Essentials

A post on the Windows Server Essentials and Small Business Server blog has an article on how to configure Microsoft Azure Online Backup on Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials:

Microsoft Azure Backup is a cloud-based backup solution that enables online backup and restore of important data to help protect against loss and corruption. This feature can be comfortably integrated to the Windows Server Essentials Dashboard.

The tutorial starts by showing you how to install the add-in, and then goes on to explain how to configure and register the server for Microsoft Azure backup, which is great to follow if you are thnking of trying out Microsoft Azure Online Backup on Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials.

You can find the article here.

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By on September 25th, 2015

CloudBerry Backup v4.3

Online backup solution CloudBerry Backup has been updated to version 4.3. This latest release comes with a set of new features and enhancements such as File Level Recovery, Amazon Cloud Drive and VMware vCloud Air support:

CloudBerry Yearly Backup From this release, you can initiate yearly backup as well. All these new features are taken a look at here.

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By on September 18th, 2015

The Home Server Show Podcast Episode 290

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The latest episode of the Home Server Show podcast is up, and this week:

Sophos has a beta out and it’s a hot topic in the forums. I’ve got that, a little news, and we’ll wrap up Meetup 2015 at the end.  All hardware, news, and chat is up front and Meetup talk starts at the end in case you are curious.

Episode 290 is avaible for your listening pleaure here.

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By on September 18th, 2015

WS2016 Essentials TP3 Microsoft Online Services Integration

A little while ago Windows Server 2016 Essentials Technical Preview 3 became available and the Microsoft Australia OEM Team blog take a look at some of the Microsoft Online Services integration capabilities.

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A great read with plenty of screen shots, which you can find here.

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By on September 18th, 2015

The Home Server Show Podcast Episode 289

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Episode 289 of the Home Server Show podcast is available:

SmartThings V2 hub is here! We talk a little bit on migrating and complain about it mostly.  QNAP, transcoding, and a little preview to Meetup 2015.  Out with the old SmartThings hub and in with the new! What is new, how do you migrate it, and how to monitor your garage door! I was doing it wrong obviously.

You can listen to episode 289 here.

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By on September 18th, 2015

Drive Bender Update Info

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Division-M the company behind Drive Bender have released an update regarding version 2.3.9.0:

We just released v2.3.9.0 which has many tweaks including a number of Windows 10 specific fixes. Following on from this we are working on another minor update that addresses a handful of smaller problems that have been reported by users, we expect this release to be out later in the month. Interestingly we have an increasing number of users using Drive Bender with SnapRAID, we are looking at adding a “SnapRAID mode” which would make using Drive Bender with SnapRAID a snap! (see what I did there!)… this may or may not make it into the next update, it really depends on how far we take such a feature. It would be great to hear from users to get their feedback, lets us know via support.

More details on this plus Division-M’s other product updates can be found in a blog post at Anthony’s ramblings.

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