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Windows Home Server 2011 On Amazon for $66

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If you have been looking for a bargain before upgrading to Windows Home Server 2011 then this just might be it.  Amazon is currently offering Windows Home Server 2011 , which is based on Windows Server 2008 R2, for just $66.  That is 56% off the listed retail price of $149.99 – . . .

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My Home Server Connector for Windows Home Server 2011 Released

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After a short release candidate period Microsoft has published the RTM version of the My Home Server app for Windows Phone 7 and its associated server side add-in.

There are two downloads that have to be installed in order to connect your WHS 2011 and your Windows Phone.  The first one is . . .

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Check Out WHS 2011 Online

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Earlier this week the Windows Home Server Team announced the availability of a online evaluation opportunity for Windows Home Server 2011.

The website, http://online.holsystems.com/portals/sbs/whs/, will provide you the opportunity to see how the product works by letting you do the following functions:

Adding a user Using the client Launchpad Managing PCs to . . .

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Windows Home Server 2011 Will Protect Your Data

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Many of you may recall that last year there was quite a bit of noise from the Windows Home Server community about the removal of the Drive Extender (DE) feature from the next version of Windows Home Server (WHS).

Drive Extender was the technology in WHS V1 that allowed you to add . . .

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Windows Home Server Update Released (KB981089)

Last week Microsoft posted an update for Windows Home Server that addressed 8 separate issues for the system.

Knowledge Base Article 981089 provides the details:

Issue 1

Assume that you use Windows Internet Explorer 9 to access the computer page of the Windows Home Server Remote Access website. In this situation, . . .

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Keep Using Current WHS Vail Beta With Drive Extender

Without getting into the background issue of WHS losing its best feature, Drive Extender, here is a fix provided by Microsoft to extend the current WHS Vail beta until the new Drive Extenderless Beta bits gets published in the short term.

“Today the WHS beta expires, and as such moves into Windows . . .

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