Up until now, there have only been a few really big players in the Windows Home Server hardware market – probably the biggest being HP. Now, Acer steps onto the playing field with their Aspire easyStore H340 Windows Home Server.
My friend and fellow MVP Donavon West from HomeServerHacks.com has just released a Windows Home Server Add-In of his own, called @WHSTweet. Basically what this add-in does is use the Twitter network to send health notifications about your Windows Home Server. So anytime work health notifications are updated, such as a hard drive about to fail, you will get a Tweet about it.
Last week, Tim Daleo posted the first in a series of articles on using mControl for Windows Home Server to do all sorts of things within his house. To coincide with these articles, our good friends at Embedded Automation have given us a number of licences for mControl that we can giveaway to our loyal readers.
Continuing our series of “How To…” guides, this guide explains how to use an external hard drive to backup your Windows Home Server Shared Folders easily and without much effort.
WHS Doctor is not an Add-In for Windows Home Server but a stand-alone program that can provide some very useful information about your Windows Home Server.
So the HP MediaSmart Server EX485 and EX487 Windows Home Server has been available now since January 2009, and is the “follow up” to the hugely successful EX470 and EX475 models. I have been using the EX487 as my main production WHS for a few months now and figured it was about time to post the review.
WHS currently controls all of my files, photos and videos. In addition, WHS also controls my other computers, backs itself up, monitors it own power source, could shut itself down if needed and even send text messages to me when it needs attention. What else could it possibly do? Well I have decided that I am going to take the next step with Windows Home Server and give it control over my home.
