February 2007 - Posts

• Why don't I get ETW events from ASP.NET in Vista?

  One of the cool features of IIS 7 is it's modular architecture . It lets you create just the IIS you want, with minimal attack surface area. Alas, one of the greatest consumers of my time lately is determining why things no longer works like on IIS 6. Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 21, 2007 1:18 PM by Matt Pietrek | 1 Comments

• Windows Home Server - A peek at Remote Access

  Here's what it looks like when I'm at work, accessing my home network via Windows Home Server. I've blocked out certain private data. Clicking on any of the machines starts up a Remote Desktop connection, which can be full screen or hosted in the browser. Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 21, 2007 12:15 PM by Matt Pietrek | 1 Comments

• Windows Home Server - Remote Access is working!

  This morning my wife was firmly ensconced on the couch with the puppy, catching up on her shows on Media Center. Sensing some free time, I snuck upstairs and began poking around at getting remote access working with Windows Home Server. The real magic Read More... Posted Saturday, February 17, 2007 2:16 PM by Matt Pietrek | 5 Comments

• Windows Home Server beta is expanding

  See the Windows Home Server blog for details. Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 13, 2007 11:54 AM by Matt Pietrek | 1 Comments

• Fun With Crimson Eventing in Vista

  (Switching away from WHS for the moment...) In my current work life, I've been playing extensively with the Crimson APIs, which in Vista/Longhorn server attempt to unify the NT event log and ETW tracing. From what I've heard, there was a major effort Read More... Posted Friday, February 09, 2007 7:23 PM by Matt Pietrek | 2 Comments

• A question about Windows Home Server storage space

  Andre asks: what is the effective size of the server if i have 4 250GB disk? is it 0.5TB or 1TB? The short answer is "It depends". Specifically, it makes a difference what folders you enable duplication on. Worst case, your 1 TB of physical disk space Read More... Posted Thursday, February 08, 2007 6:07 PM by Matt Pietrek | 5 Comments

• Windows Home Server Team Blog

  Is here: http://blogs.technet.com/homeserver/ No real news on my own WHS box. Still hanging in there, dutifully doing backups every night on all four client machines. When I looked at the memory usage last night, it was hanging around 540MB, but didn't Read More... Posted Friday, February 02, 2007 11:44 AM by Matt Pietrek | 3 Comments