Toluu

MS Windows Home Server

A server for the people !!!

DIY Windows Home Server DiaryYesterday

Glenn Sullivan is an IT professional by trade but a newbie to Windows Home Server who had been running his house off of a pair of real old servers, that is until be plugged in his kill-a-watt meter.

Running close to 400W! made him realize that he had to make a change.

Glen has been keeping a "diary" of his DIY Windows Home Server build and would like to hear your comments about how it will all work out. The rest of his parts should arrive by tomorrow and Glen’s "diary" will keep us informed on how things are set up, migrated and customized.

You can read his blog posts here.

      

Home Server Show Podcast #28January 5

The Home Server Show Podcast #28 has the latest news for Window Home Server enthusiasts, and in this episode there is a discussion on the new EX485 and EX487 from Hewlett Packard.

You can listen and/or download the show from here.

      

MVP TimeJanuary 2

Another year passes and I receive an email from Microsoft congratulating me for being re-awarded as a a Windows Home Server MVP, for the second year.

Congratulations also to author Andrew Edney who has been re-awarded this year and also to the four new MVPs. Eric B Rex, editor, author, and cofounder of whshelp.com. Christopher Courtney aka drashna, a major contributor over on We Got Served. Olaf Engelke, who has been an MVP in a different discipline for a number of years and Martin Rothschink, creator of the LightsOut add-in for WHS.

On behalf of myself I would like to thank the Windows Home Server Team for re-awarding me on behalf of this site mswhs.com

Thanks to MVP Ken Warren for the details.

      

New Years Resolution: Back up your Home Data RegularlyJanuary 1

On the Intel Software Network Blog today is sound information on protecting your personal and family data by making sure that you backup your data regularly. Now, if you own a Windows Home Server we have it easy because our computers are backed up every night as we are cozy in bed (unless we work shifts off course), but for those of you without a Windows Home Server make sure that you make it a New Years resolution to back up your data regularly using a product like Acronis True Image or Genie Backup Manager.

Believe me, if it hasn’t happened to you before losing your precious family photos or your collection of documents and music isn’t a nice experience. Take the easy route and purchase Windows Home Sever.

New Years Resolution: Back up your Home Data Regularly

Intel Software Network Blog

      

Add-In: DVD Manager 0.0.030 AlphaJanuary 1

The DVD Manager add-in which moves moves your Media Center recordings to your server for storage and management has been updated. Version 0.0.030 Alpha has fixed the "rips to a video file sometimes had the wrong audio track" issue and also has the following new features:

• Re-use your old folder rips by ripping to a file from an existing folder rip.
• If you don’t have a DVD drive inside of your WHS, now you can rip using your client PCs! The DVD Manager client installs much like the add-in for WHS but can run on your client PC and rip the DVD to the same share you set in the add-in’s preferences. Currently there isn’t way to monitor the percent complete but you can run this on as many PCs as you’d like (the log is merged on the server, so you can view that if need be), even ripping at the same time. The client also requires AnyDVD or DVD34 to decrypt the DVD and the Windows Home Server Connector software installed.

More details are available from here.