Archive | June, 2011

Add-in Update: StableBit DrivePool v1.0.0.1856

By on June 18, 2011 in Add-in News, Add-ins & Apps

Drive Extender replacement add-in updated with a small bug-fix beta release.

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The Media Center Project for Windows Phone 7

By on June 17, 2011 in Mobile, News

For the Windows Phone 7 and Media Center user, here is an app designed to allow the phone to control WMC.

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Lenovo Targets Budget Conscious Small Businesses With the ThinkServer TS130

By on June 16, 2011 in Hardware, News, Small Business

Lenovo this week unveiled its latest range of ThinkServer hardware for small and medium size businesses, showcasing a new $499 budget server supporting Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials. The Intel Xeon E3-powered ThinkServer TS130 is targeted at smaller businesses without dedicated internal IT support resources, making it an ideal partner for Microsoft’s latest “hybrid-cloud” OS.

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How to: Install Windows Server 2008 R2 On Your Headless Windows Home Server Hardware

By on June 16, 2011 in How to Guides, News, Windows, Windows Home Server

Time for a bit of forum focus. This week one of our forum members, mimoid (Thomas), posted a great guide to installing Windows Server 2008 R2 on headless home server hardware, such as the HP MediaSmart Server, HP Data Vault or Acer Aspire easyStore Home Server. As these products do not have monitor, mouse or keyboard connectors, installing operating systems can be a challenge. Fortunately, guides like this one make life a lot easier.

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HumuHumu: Home Servers That Fit Into Any Room In Your House

By on June 15, 2011 in News, Windows Home Server

A home server in any room in your house? So says the UK’s newest home server system builder HumuHumu, which today announced its debut range of Windows Home Server 2011 systems.

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Add-in Update: Lights-Out v1.5.1

By on June 15, 2011 in Add-in News, Add-ins & Apps, News, Windows Home Server

Lights-Out, the popular power management add-in for Windows Home Server v1 and WHS 2011 has been updated this week.

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Microsoft Unveils Windows Phone 7 Connector for Windows Home Server 2011, Small Business Server 2011 Essentials

By on June 14, 2011 in Add-in News, Mobile, News, Windows Home Server

Microsoft today released their Windows Phone 7 Connector for Windows Home Server 2011, Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials and Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials. Previewed in January at CES, the apps allow Windows Phone 7 users to connect to their servers whilst on the move, enabling a range of mobile media streaming and sharing features.

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Drive Bender Windows Home Server Add-in UI Unveiled

By on June 14, 2011 in Add-in News, Add-ins & Apps, News, Windows Home Server

Division M are set to release Beta 4 of storage pooling application Drive Bender later this week. Drive Bender, set to be released on a variety of platforms including Windows Home Server 2011, presents multiple hard drives as a single pool of data storage – either as a logical drive letter, or a network shared drive. Drive Bender is able to do this with internal and USB (or any externally) connected hard drives, of any size.

Ahead of the new release, the company has unveiled the final WHS 2011 UI for Beta 4.

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Add-in Update: Stablebit DrivePool v1.0.0.1836

By on June 13, 2011 in Add-in News, Add-ins & Apps, News, Windows Home Server

StableBit DrivePool combines the individual hard drives on your server into a storage pool and offers enhanced folder duplication features for data protection. What’s new in the latest beta?

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Software Review: PerfectDisk 12 Home Server

By on June 13, 2011 in Add-ins & Apps, Apps & Add-in Reviews, News, Reviews, Software, Windows Home Server

Raxco unveils the latest release of their disk defragmentation add-in, PerfectDisk 12 Home Server and it’s certainly got a lot more features than its predecessor. But the release of Windows Home Server 2011 and loss of Drive Extender means that Windows’ own basic disk defragger is now a valid (and free) competitor to third-party apps. So what’s right for you?

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