Browse by Tags
All Tags »
Windows Home Server (RSS)
At times life can be pretty complicated... backing up your home PCs and safeguarding your family files shouldn’t be, and when designing Windows Home Server the conscious decision was made to try to limit the number of configuration knobs and simply the
Read More...
Pssst, I've got a not so little secret for you. No, it's not that the English version of Power Pack 2 went live on Windows Update yesterday. It's not even that Windows Home Server has at long last reached MSDN and TechNet . What could be bigger than either
Read More...
Have you looked on Windows Update lately? No? You should... at least if you are a running an English version of Windows Home Server. Why so? This morning we just released Power Pack 2 to Windows Update! What do you need to get it? Just make sure automatic
Read More...
Commenter JohnCz recently suggested : Perhaps one day we'll see WHS OEMs offer a free netbook with WHS purchase. Or perhaps a WHS bundled with an extender is on the horizon. While I can’t say when or if either will happen (partially due to pesky
Read More...
An often asked question by some of the more advanced users of Windows Home Server has been "Why doesn't it include built in support for hosting my own email on it?" The are two primary reasons, the most important being the fact that most users
Read More...
One of the major advantages Windows Home Server has over much of it’s competition (external hard drives, generic network attached storage devices, secondary PCs) is that it’s a full Windows Server under the hood and comes along with the ability to host
Read More...
As great as Windows Home Server is on its own... it's nothing without partners who take what we give them, create a full solution (hardware and software) and make it available directly to consumers while offering value above and beyond what we could put
Read More...
The backup service built into Windows Home Server is designed for easy and efficient storage and recovery of files from multiple different PCs in the home as well as easy recovery. Because it does this job so well some have taken to using it as a longer
Read More...
With the release of Power Pack 1 we were able to give the Windows Home Server SDK documentation over on MSDN a nice update to clarify a number of things that were not clear, update examples to work better in Visual Studio 2008 and other useful bits. One
Read More...
A pain point for some users of Windows Home Server has been around third-party add-ins where loading many of them might cause the Home Server Console to take forever to load or worse... not load at all because of a crash within an add-in on startup. One
Read More...
I'm thrilled to announce just minutes ago the powers that be here flipped the switch to release the much anticipated Release Candidate of Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 to the to the world! To quote some of the marketing bits: Microsoft is pleased to
Read More...
