Category Archive: Windows Home Server

Feb 25 2012

Meeting the 2GB RAM Prerequisite for Windows Home Server 2011

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BD-ROM, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Optical, Storage, Technology, Windows Home Server

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I’m doing a server build for a business at the moment who needs the neat automated backup functionality found in Windows Home Server 2011 to help keep daily backups of important point of sale computers and office machines while consolidating and centralising the data storage on the network. For this task, I thought that Windows …

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Sep 30 2011

Update Your DriveBender Beta License Key

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Hard Drive, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Storage, Technology, Windows Home Server

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Here’s a quick tip for tonight. If you are running Windows Home Server 2011 on a box at home and you are using DriveBender to reimplement the missing “Drive Extender” technology that was stripped out in the new version then you might need to know that the current beta expires tonight (if it already hasn’t …

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Sep 25 2011

Automate Removal of Mac Double Files on Windows

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MacOS, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Technology, Windows Home Server

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Well, I haven’t found a way for Mac OS X Lion to clean up its double files (i.e. the ._ files that are created when actual files are created on a Windows share) so I have decided to tackle it from the Windows side. On my Windows Home Server 2011 box I have written a …

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Jul 26 2011

The Apple Double Format, Network Shares and uTorrent

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Hard Drive, MacOS, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Storage, Technology, Windows Home Server

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This might be a bit of an edge case for most people but for those of us with heterogeneous networks with a mixture of Windows and Mac OS X computers you may come across hidden files starting with “._” (so something like “._humptydumpty.doc”) and may or may not correspond with a filename of the same …

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Jul 16 2011

Windows Home Server Upgrade – Progress Report

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Hard Drive, HDMI, IDE, Interfaces, Microsoft, Operating Systems, SATA, Storage, Technology, USB, Video, Windows Home Server

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Just wanted to share with you my “upgrade” experience going from the original Windows Home Server to Windows Home Server 2011. This morning I made some hardware upgrades, specifically: adding another 4GB RAM, replacing the existing four hard drives totaling 3TB of varying sizes with three 2TB hard drives. This part didn’t take so long …

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Jul 04 2011

Boydo Test Drives Windows Phone 7

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Android, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Technology, Windows Home Server, Windows Phone 7

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Just a quick update for tonight. From here on in I will be using the new Samsung Omnia 7 I picked up on the weekend as my primary phone. For me, there’s no better approach in becoming more familiar with a device than to jump in with both feet and work it out as you …

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Feb 22 2011

Windows Home Server 2011 Features Time Machine Backups… Sort of…

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MacOS, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Windows Home Server

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Automated backups for Windows machines has been a staple of Windows Home Server since it was first released and in  Windows Home Server 2011 that core functionality has been preserved. Microsoft had planned to  support backups of Mac OS X computers through the Time Machine feature however Apple removed the ability to do so by …

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Feb 13 2011

Drive Extender Alternatives for Windows Home Server 2011

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Hard Drive, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Storage, Technology, Windows Home Server

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Last year, I covered the shock announcement that Microsoft was dropping the Drive Extender (DE) technology from its second version of Windows Home Server (formerly codenamed “Vail” but now dubbed Windows Home Server 2011). In a nutshell, DE provided some critical functionality including: storage pooling (the ability to combine multiple drives into one large storage …

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Dec 23 2010

Save Your Gadgets and Power Bill This Christmas

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Connectivity, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Power, Secure, Technology, UPS, VPN, Windows Home Server

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At this time of year many of us will be doing the rounds to see family, friends and relatives and, in some cases, this may involve a decent amount of travel (intrastate, interstate or international). If you are going to be away from home you might consider doing the following: Completely shutdown your computers (as …

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Dec 02 2010

HP Retires MediaSmart Server Line – Death Knell for Windows Home Server?

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Hard Drive, Microsoft, Network Attached Storage, Operating Systems, Storage, Technology, Windows Home Server

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Windows Home Server “Vail” (the second version of Windows Home Server) slated for release by Microsoft next year already suffered a significant setback and subsequent public backlash last week after the announcement that its Drive Extender functionality was to be dropped. Drive Extender provided the very popular storage pooling and selective folder redundancy features found …

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