At the beginning of the month I wrote about my Windows Home Server hard drive problems and at the time I was waiting for WHS to finish removing the bad drive from its storage pool. When I posted the article I was letting Windows Home Server run through the drive removal process while I slept. I had pulled the plug on the bad drive since it brought the server to its knees and was now trying to remove the traces of it from the pool. When I woke up in [...] Read the rest »
Windows Home Server Security Updates
I don’t have my Windows Home Server set to automatically install updates from Microsoft. today was the day I went into the console and told it to pull down the updates. Even though I tell it not to automatically install the updates the process is unstoppable once I click the update now button. I don’t get a preview of the updates that will be installed. Today’s updates included: KB941693 (MS08-025) – Vulnerability in Windows Kernel could allow elevation of privilege. KB945553 (MS08-020) – Vulnerability in DNS client could allow spoofing. [...] Read the rest »
Windows Home Server Recovery
I’ve been having sporadic problems with my Windows Home Server for the last week or so. The WHS was powering itself off for no reason and according to the logs it wasn’t a clean shutdown. It’s been sporadic, but happened twice on Saturday. I was also having connectivity problems from my Macs. These were also sporadic and I suspected they were due to the recent OS X 10.5.2 upgrade rather than the Windows Home Server. I figured no matter what, if I called tech support the first thing they’d want [...] Read the rest »
