This week, Microsoft pretty much announced the end of Windows Home Server as we know it after two versions. The first being the original Windows Home Server followed up by Windows Home Server 2011 based upon Windows Server 2008 R2. With the onset of Windows Server 2012 and its various flavours I can only think …
Tag Archive: Windows Home Server 2011
Jul 13 2012
Windows Server 2012 Essentials – The New Windows Home Server?
Microsoft, Operating Systems, Windows 8, Windows Home Server, Windows Server 2012
by Boyd Chan
Feb 25 2012
Meeting the 2GB RAM Prerequisite for Windows Home Server 2011
BD-ROM, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Optical, Storage, Technology, Windows Home Server
by Boyd Chan
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 …
Sep 30 2011
Update Your DriveBender Beta License Key
Hard Drive, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Storage, Technology, Windows Home Server
by Boyd Chan
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 …
Sep 25 2011
Automate Removal of Mac Double Files on Windows
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 …
Jul 26 2011
The Apple Double Format, Network Shares and uTorrent
Hard Drive, MacOS, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Storage, Technology, Windows Home Server
by Boyd Chan
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 …
Jul 16 2011
Windows Home Server Upgrade – Progress Report
Hard Drive, HDMI, IDE, Interfaces, Microsoft, Operating Systems, SATA, Storage, Technology, USB, Video, Windows Home Server
by Boyd Chan
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 …
Feb 22 2011
Windows Home Server 2011 Features Time Machine Backups… Sort of…
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 …
Feb 13 2011
Drive Extender Alternatives for Windows Home Server 2011
Hard Drive, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Storage, Technology, Windows Home Server
by Boyd Chan
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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