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Microsoft: Windows Home Server Doesn’t Support Advanced Format Drives
Yesterday Microsoft released an article regarding Windows Home Server (WHS) and Advanced Format (AF) drives which must be formatted and aligned for 4k sectors instead of the traditional 512 byte...
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Windows Home Server: Demigrator.exe Interrupts Media Streaming
Up until quite recently I had Windows Home Server (WHS) installed as a virtual machine on VMware vSphere. My Media Center PC was connected to WHS and I would stream High Definition (HD) content between...
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Windows Home Server – Problem With WHSBackup.exe
Tonight I decided to take a quick look at my Windows Home Server (WHS) because my recorded TV shows (stored on WHS) were stuttering when played through my Media Center PC. This is something that I had...
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Amahi – Version 6 Released
Amahi (a linux based home server) reached version 6 today boasting many new improvements and features. Amahi is now based on Fedora 14 and sees updates to the storage pooling technology (Greyhole), App...
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Windows Home Server – Once Upon a Failing Hard Drive
A few of days ago I began experiencing multiple error messages with a failing hard disk on my Windows Home Server (WHS). Dealing with a bad drive can be a pain – particularly with the downtime...
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Installing FreeNAS 8 on VMware vSphere (ESXi)
FreeNAS is an Open Source Storage Platform and version 8 benefits not only from a complete rewrite – it also boats a new web interface and support for the ZFS filesystem. It is also worth mentioning...
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Ubuntu Server – Mounting a Windows Share Using the Command Line
When I started writing this post I wanted to mount a Windows share in Ubuntu and backup files from Ubuntu onto my Windows Home Server (WHS). Since then I have begun looking at other options like...
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Ubuntu Server 10.4 Lucid – Backing up Feng Office 1.7.4 (Community Edition)
The Feng Office Wiki has instructions for backing up the Feng Office installation folder and the MySQL database. This can either be done with scripts and a cron job or with a plugin that allows for...
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How To Create A Virtual Floppy For VMware vSphere
Last week I needed to create a virtual floppy disk to load drivers for a Windows XP Virtual Machine (VM) during the boot process. This is not a scenario that crops up too often – but in this case I...
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My Transition From WHS (Windows Home Server) to ZFS: HP Microserver & FreeNAS 8
I’ve decided to begin my transition to a ZFS based system before my Windows Home Server (WHS) gives up the ghost. ZFS provides protection against data corruption – which is mostly what attracted me to...
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Windows Home Server – Windows 8 (VMware) Backup and Restore
Now that I have been playing around with Windows 8 (Release Preview) for a while I was curious to see if I could install the Windows Home Server (WHS) Connector Software and perform a backup and...
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Windows 7 – TV Archive Does Not Have Permissions to Access This Folder
I recently installed Windows 7 in a virtual machine on VMware vSphere so that I could start recording TV shows again with my HDHomerun. Everything was working fine and all of a sudden I noticed that my...
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