Building a Windows 8 Home Server

Wegotserved's series on building a Windows 8 Home Server has been completed through part 6, "Installing Windows 8". Other parts have included a long multi-page post with many screen shots showing how to physically build a computer that will work as your Windows 8 Home Server (part 4 of the series) and configuring the bios of your new machine (part 5 of the series.)

In part 6 of the series, they walk us through how to install Windows using the Microsoft USB tool that allows installing the operating system from a downloaded file by using a USB device such as a memory stick:

Yes, that’s right – we’ll install Windows 8 using something called the Windows 7 USB tool.

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Backup Gets Personal in Windows 8 With ‘File History’

Speaking about Windows 8 and its possibilities as a file server, especially to replace the lamented soon to be departed Windows Home Server (WHS) products, Redmondmag.com has an article about the "file history" feature of the soon to be released Windows 8:

Microsoft is ditching the current Windows 7 backup-and-restore approach because consumers aren't using it.

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Building a Windows 8 Home Server: Home Server Hardware

As promised, I am updating the status of the Wegotserved series on building a Windows 8 Home Server. Part one of my post is here. Wegotserved is providing a series of articles about using Windows 8 as a replacement for the end-of-life Windows Home Server (WHS) product. Microsoft has announced that there will be no follow on to WHS and WHS 2011 - thus the need to explore other options if you want a reasonably priced Windows based home server.…

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Windows Home Server is Dead

Another article about the demise of Windows Home Server is found at Arstechnica.com. As the article points out, it will be a while before WHS is gone for good:

The current version, Windows Home Server 2011, is the last ever version. It's not going to disappear overnight—it will be available for OEM preinstallations until an astonishing and not entirely plausible December 31, 2025, though hobbyist system builders only have until December 31, 2013 to buy standalone copies—but it won't receive any new features or upgrades.

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Building a Windows 8 Home Server: Introduction

Now that Microsoft has announced that Windows Home Server 2011 will not be followed up by a new home server version of Windows and that both versions of Windows Home Server will have an end of support life, the question of what to do if you are building a home server and you want to use a variation of Windows has become more timely than ever.…

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