There is a post over at the Homeservershow site testing the new storage spaces feature on the beta of Windows 8. Storage spaces is a feature that allows for pooled drives and parity protection of data. Essentially, this gives the ability to retrieve your data even if one drive fails.…
Read more »Windows Home Server 2011 NAS – Great Deals Pre-built on Ebay
I came across a great selection of pre-built servers with Windows Home Server 2011 already installed on Ebay - and the NAS devices have great room for expandability. These deals are so tempting, I am thinking about buying one rather than building my own from parts:
These servers are available for not much more than the price of the parts and they come with a 3 year warranty for parts and labor!…
Read more »Install Windows Home Server 2011 without a DVD Drive
I found a quick post over at http://deputycio.com that runs through the steps to install Windows Home Server 2011 (WHS 2011) onto a machine that does not have a DVD drive. The method employs copying the installation files to a thumb drive. This has been around for awhile, but I thought it would be helpful if you haven't seen it.…
Read more »Migrate from WHS to WHS 2011 with FlexRaid
I came across an interesting post on the FlexRaid forum that provides a step by step guide of how he migrated from the original version of Windows Home Server to the 2011 version of WHS and added FlexRaid to provide parity protection to his data.
The introduction to the post indicates that he had to copy his data over to the new NAS configuration:
Read more »I just recently went from WHS v1 to WHS 2011.
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Run Quickbooks on Windows Home Server – Add On
Theofficemaven.com has released another in its series of add ons for Windows Home Server (WHS) 2011 - this time for running Quickbooks from Windows Home Server 2011. Run one copy of Quickbooks and up to 10 computers on the network can access their own instance of Quickbooks:
Read more »WHS QuickBooks 2011 can run a server-installed copy of QuickBooks from any computer just as if it were running directly on the local computer.
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Restore a Windows Home Server 2011 – Bare Metal Recovery of the Server Itself
The WeGotServed forum has an interesting post on preparing your Windows Home Server 2011 machine for disaster and using the bare metal recovery capability to restore the server itself. The tutorial explains the problem:
Read more »One of the more impressive, and somewhat overlooked, features of WHS2011 backup is the ability to perform a Bare Metal Recovery (BMR) of the server itself.
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FlexRAID Up to Version 2 (and No Longer Free)
I am not sure exactly when this happened, but I just noticed that FlexRAID, the pooling storage solution for Windows (including Windows Home Server) and Linux which allows for multiple hard drives of different sizes to be in a protected array and allows for pooling of the storage space is now up to version 2.0 and is no longer free.…
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