Newsletter Archives

• Windows Home Server, RIP

  Posted on July 11, 2015 at 05:34 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  I got an interesting email from reader JDC. He says:

  Saw a book you wrote about Windows Home Server. Do you still use WHS or is it all but defunct? If no, do you use or recommend another server software?

  In fact, I gave up on Windows Home Server when they went to version 2011. MS killed Drive Extender, and that was my main reason for using WHS.

  Now I’m doing everything peer-to-peer, with my main machine running as a server, and it’s running Windows 81. I’ll be switching to Windows 10 on that machine, probably this Fall.

  I’m gradually moving just about everything to the cloud. The big storage problem for me was the old family photos – I have a huge collection. They’re now in Google Photos, and I’m happy as a clam.

  Other Windows Home Server

• Microsoft cold-shoulders Server 2003 and XP users hit with Microsoft Update error 0x80248015

  Posted on November 25, 2014 at 07:06 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Looks like it’s an internal date error – but MS hasn’t said a thing. Argh.

  InfoWorld Tech Watch

  Windows Patches/Security 0x80248015, Microsoft Update, Windows Home Server, Windows Server 2003, Windows Update, Windows XP

• A cheap, effective home server – using Windows 8

  Posted on September 22, 2012 at 10:02 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Top Story this week in Windows Secrets Newsletter.

  Win8 works very well as a home server….

  Windows News Windows 8 server, Windows Home Server

• Windows Home Server with 1 TB for $350 delivered

  Posted on December 22, 2009 at 21:26 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Is this crazy or what?

  Right now, Newegg is offering the Acer Aspire H340 – a decent Windows Home Server machine – with 1 TB of storage and Windows Home Server for $350, including shipping.

  It seems to be a decent machine, with an Atom CPU, and at that price it’s a screaming deal.

  I’ve been running Windows Home Server for years, and I don’t know how I ever lived without it.

  Other Acer, Newegg, Windows Home Server

• Windows Home Server PowerPack 2 docs released

  Posted on March 24, 2009 at 09:17 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Although it won’t be available until tomorrow, the Windows Home Server team blog just announced the official availability of Windows Home Server Power Pack 2.

  Power Pack 2 will be made available via Windows Update. Users need to have Windows Home Server with Power Pack 1 already installed on their home server. Power Pack 2 will automatically install as part of Windows Update if Automatic Updates is enabled on the home server… The English version release date is March 24th. Chinese, French, German, Japanese and Spanish is currently scheduled to be available before the end of April.

  The blog has an overview of the (impressive) new features, but if you want to see all the details, check out the Windows Home Server Release Documentation, which just went up on the Microsoft download site.

  Windows News PowerPack 2, Windows Home Server

• Windows Home Server primary drive

  Posted on March 14, 2009 at 10:53 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Reader J asked about Windows Home Server:

  I am building my first WHS, and of course… your splendid Windows Home Server For Dummies book is my “bible” on the subject. The one thing that I don’t see covered in the book is the ideal way to setup the primary hard drive.

  I have:

  (x2) 750GB SATA Drives
  (x5) 1.5TB SATA Drives
  …and a few other smaller drives.

  I have read differing opinions on which drive should be used as the primary drive. Some say it should be one of the large 1.5TB drives, and others say it would be best to use a smaller/faster drive. Do you have any opinion on this? Why is one better than the other?

  Unless you put huge files on your WHS, your best bet is to use one of the smaller, faster drives as your primary drive.

  If you copy files larger than the size of the drive (give or take) to the Server, you’ll get bogged down with WHS shuffling off portions of the file.
  But with HDs the size you’re talking about, you shouldn’t have any problems.

  Other Windows Home Server