Archive for the ‘Windows Home Server’ Category
Monday, July 27th, 2009
The Barebones box which I used to build my WHS is now reduced to just $135, or around £82. It started me thinking about buying another box and using it as an "always on" email/browsing PC. The problem I have at the moment is that I often just want to ...
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Saturday, January 10th, 2009
With the public release of Windows 7 beta today, and the beta period lasting until August, there will be many WHS users wondering about compatibility between WHS and Win 7, if you’re going to install Beta software and run it for 8 months you’ll want to be confident that your ...
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Friday, December 19th, 2008
When I started this blog I decided to only write about my own experiences using WHS, and not to simply repeat WHS news from the web, and I have kept to this. The problem with this is that Windows Home Server just sits in the corner of my room and ...
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Saturday, October 18th, 2008
As previously mentioned, I decided to rebuilt my WHS using more appropriate hardware. I decided to use the MSI Wind Desktop. The Wind Desktop uses the Intel Atom processor (as used in Netbooks) and also uses laptop memory and a laptop PSU. The result is a near silent, very low ...
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Saturday, August 30th, 2008
My WHS trial license has long expired, and I have been in no rush to buy a retail version. This is not because I found the software lacking, on the contrary, it was an unusually robust and innovative bit of software from Microsoft. My main issue was with the machine ...
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Friday, February 1st, 2008
After receiving a rather large electricity bill I decided it was time to help save the planet, I replaced most of my light bulbs for energy savers and applied for cavity wall insulation. In order to understand where all those little electrons were off to in such a hurry I ...
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Friday, January 25th, 2008
Where do you keep your WHS?
In the office servers are kept in the "server" room, with the noticeable exception of probably only a handful of people (Mr Gates?) most people don't have a server room at home (we can only dream). Given that the home server is meant to be ...
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Sunday, January 13th, 2008
It's been 30 days since I installed WHS and I got an interesting message via the WHS console today, apparently my 120 day evaluation is over. Now....maths has never been my strong point, but, according to Windows Calculator, 120-30 = 90, so I should have 90 days left. Luckily ...
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Saturday, January 12th, 2008
As you could probably tell, I was a little miffed about the "upgrade" path for the 120-day evaluation version of WHS. Well, now it's even worse.......
I applied for a 180-day evaluation version of MS Project 2007 yesterday, and guess what? No 5 week wait for the DVD's to arrive, I ...
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Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
My plan was quite simple, pay £5 ($10) for the 120 day evaluation version of WHS, and then after 120 days simply hit the big upgrade button that Microsoft would obviously provide for me. Then I'd probably be wizzed off to an MS webpage, enter my card details, and my ...
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