A Frustrating Journey
As I previously mentioned, Windows Home Server is all but dead to me now that Microsoft is killing the Drive Extender technology. So the search was on for an alternative. As the name of this post implies, I’ve made a decision. Here’s how I came to it. Read the rest »
Most of my reading this week was related to the removal of Drive Extender fro Windows Home Server. And the interesting links for that topic are here. I added a couple new links today so if your interest head back there. In keeping with the Thanksgiving theme (at least for those of us in the US) Lifehacker has a list of the 50 free apps their readers are most thankful for. Forklift for the Mac has been updated. This is an FTP client/Finder replacement that I’ve always found intriguing but [...] Read the rest »
When I started looking at a Home Server replacement back in October the plan was to get some new hardware and transition to it when Vail was released. Then Vail was gutted when when Microsoft removed drive extender and it became just another OS with nothing unique, at least not for me. Luckily this system build is flexible and I have options. In it short life it's already run Windows Home Server Vail and Ubuntu 10.04.1. Read the rest »
With Microsoft’s recent dropping of Drive Extender from Windows Home server I’ve been doing so related browsing and find the following links of interest: Read the rest »
I started to write this article on Sunday, at which time it had a lot different focus and the only thing that remains is the title. I was writing about what I liked in Vail and that many of the ways I use Windows Home Server had already migrated to Vail, despite it’s beta status. Then today Microsoft dropped a bomb and announced they were discontinuing Drive Extender in WHS and SBS. My first reaction was that WHS is now dead to me. Read the rest »
These are the tech links that I starred in Google Reader during the last week. Read the rest »
With the next version of Windows Home Server just around the corner (I hope) and having built a new server for when version 2 is released, I figured this would be a good time to write about how I use Windows Home Server. In this article I describe how I currently use WHS. Read the rest »
Having just built a new Windows Home Server and doing some PC upgrades I’ve updated and refreshed my PC monitoring utilities and resources. These are links for tools and sites I find useful. Read the rest »
Links to Windows Home Server Vail information I've found of interest on the web. Read the rest »