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WindowsObserver: 2011 Year in Review

By Richard Hay, on December 30th, 2011

As the year comes to an end we hope your 2012 will be a prosperous one.

This past year was one of transition for me as I moved from the ranks of active duty in the Navy and joined the retired list after more than 29 years. I am enjoying the . . .

Check Out WHS 2011 Online

By Richard Hay, on May 11th, 2011

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 . . .

Windows Home Server 2011 Will Protect Your Data

By Richard Hay, on May 5th, 2011

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 . . .

Windows Home Server Update Released (KB981089)

By Richard Hay, on January 31st, 2011

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, . . .

Keep Using Current WHS Vail Beta With Drive Extender

By Richard Hay, on January 11th, 2011

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 . . .

Windows Home Server Vail Loses Drive Extender Feature

By Richard Hay, on November 24th, 2010

Yesterday a significant announcement was made by the Windows Server team at Microsoft via the Windows Home Server blog and the aftermath has not been real pretty.

The team has decided to remove the Drive Extender (DE for short) technology from the current beta of three server solutions that includes Windows Home . . .

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