Santa’s finished his deliveries and is tipping back a few. Time for me to wrap things up for the year and get ready for the next one. Not much has changed since the last trail log but I figured it was as good as time as any to wrap things up. There's power upgrades, wireless upgrades and home server changes in this trail log. Read the rest »
Saved by The UPS
Every time I buy a UPS I cringe at the expense, yet I do it and have my servers and main PCs hooked up to a UPS with the shutdown software installed. I just bought one for my new server build. I was going to use the one from my WHS box but decided both would be online long enough to give the new hardware it’s own UPS. In my mind I justify the expense since it provides protection to the computers. I didn’t want the nice new hardware to take a power hit and I didn’t want to remove a UPS from my still production (at the time) Windows Home Server. So I dug into the wallet and bought a UPS for it. Tonight that decision was validated. Read the rest »
Windows Home Server Add-Ins I Use
I was recently asked what Windows Home Server Add-Ins I us and figured it was a good topic for a blog post. So this morning I took a look and see that I have six loaded. I don’t use a lot of add-ins for two main reasons: In general I like my important systems to be as clean as possible. My Windows Home Server is no different. I don’t do a lot of hacks on any computer I use day in and day out. Adding a ton of WHS add-ins [...] Read the rest »
Configuring a UPS on Windows Home Server
I purchased a APC BE750BB Back-UPS 750VA UPS awhile ago and had plugged my Windows Home Server into it but never configured the shutdown or power management. The APC Powerchute software is not needed to do this. (Although I may install it sometime in the future to see what the differences are.) So this should work for most any UPS that has a USB connection to the server. The BE750BB has 10 power outlets, five that have battery backup and five that are just surge protected. Each bank of 5 [...] Read the rest »
