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Windows Home Server 2011 Step By Step – Part 2: Building Your Home Server

By on February 8, 2012 in How to Guides, News, Windows Home Server, Windows Home Server 2011

We start with home server hardware. The first release of Windows Home Server in 2007 shipped on a variety of hardware that you could pick up from your local Best Buy, PC World or favourite online store. Fast forward to Windows Home Server 2011, and dedicated hardware is more difficult to find. So you’re left with the choice to either purchase an off the shelf PC or small server (such as HP’s excellent ProLiant MicroServer) and install the Windows Home Server 2011 software, or build your own. If you don’t fancy a build project, then skip to Chapter 4 for installation goodness. Otherwise, grab your screwdriver and spirit of adventure and come with me!

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Add-in Update: Cloudberry Backup v2.6.2

By on February 5, 2012 in Add-in News, Add-ins & Apps, News, Windows Home Server

Cloudberry Backup allows you to back-up the data on your home or small business server to the cloud. Powered by a variety of online storage providers, the add-in integrates neatly with the Dashboard to allow backup scheduling, data encryption and many more features to protect your data.

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Add-in Update: Lights-Out Service Pack 2 Beta Refresh

By on February 5, 2012 in Add-in News, Add-ins & Apps, News, Windows Home Server

A refresh of Lights-Out Service Pack 2 Beta was released this week for Windows Home Server v1 and WHS 2011. The power management add-in allows you to place your server in sleep or hibernation mode at scheduled times

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Add-in Update: AWIECO Wake on LAN v1.2

By on February 1, 2012 in Add-in News, Add-ins & Apps, News, Windows Home Server

AWIECO WakeOnLAN is an add-in which enables the Home Server to start up every computer attached to your network. The add-in shows a list of all available and connected computers within your network and allows you to start them up from any location on network or over the internet.

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Advanced Admin Console 2011 Is Released

By on February 1, 2012 in Add-ins & Apps, News, Windows Home Server, Windows SBS 2011 Essentials

The testing is over and the production version of the WHS 2011 add-in Advanced Admin Console is now available.

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LaCie Announces New Small Home and Office Servers in the Shape of the 5big Office Series

By on January 31, 2012 in News, Windows Home Server

Following the launch of the company’s 5big Backup and Storage Servers in 2010, LaCie today announced a refresh of the series in the form of the 5big Office and 5big Office+ small business servers. Powered by a choice of Windows Home Server 2011 or Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials (Microsoft’s “Breckenridge” server operating system – a close cousin of Windows SBS Essentials 2011 and Windows Home Server 2011) the products provide centralised file sharing, remote access and client backup for up to 25 users.

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Windows Home Server 2011 Step By Step – Part 1: What Is a Home Server?

By on January 31, 2012 in How to Guides, News, Windows Home Server, Windows Home Server 2011

Before we get into the finer details of life with Windows Home Server, we should take a step back and ask a pretty important question. Just what is a home server? Ask a hundred people in the street, and you’ll find many blank faces and the odd comedian who’ll ask you if it has something to do with household chores.

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iHomeServer v2.0.28

By on January 29, 2012 in Add-ins & Apps, Media, Media, News, WHS v1, Windows Home Server, Windows Home Server 2011

iHomeServer is an add-in for Windows Home Server v1 and Windows Home Server 2011 which allows you to manage Apple’s iTunes media player directly from the WHS Console/Dashboard. iHomeServer starts iTunes automatically when the computer starts, keeps it running and allows you to manage iTunes without having to physically access the computer. It also makes it easy to add new media to your iTunes Media Server.

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Add-in Update: Snoop-de-dupe v1.6

By on January 29, 2012 in Add-ins & Apps, News, Windows Home Server

Snoop-de-dupe monitors folders you select on your home server and will detect and display a list duplicate files in the Windows Home Server Console. From there, you can delete the duplicates, ignore/keep the duplicate files, or in the case of the add-in for Windows Home Server 2011 & Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials, replace the duplicate files with a hard-link.

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How To: Map A Windows Home Server 2011 Network Location To a Windows 7 Client

By on January 28, 2012 in How to Guides, News, Windows Home Server, Windows Home Server 2011

Do you find navigating to Windows Home Server’s shared folders an arduous chore? Take a look at how Windows 7 allows you to create a direct link to network resources. This direct link is known as a ‘Network Location’ in the Windows Explorer application. A network location is similar to a mapped network drive without assigning a drive letter. Or you can think of it as a network resource shortcut.

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