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PerfectDisk 2008 Wins Editor’s Choice from Windows IT Pro for Best Enterprise Defragmenter

Thursday, May 1, 2008

The team at Raxco are pretty after Windows IT Pro Magazine selected Raxco’s PerfectDisk 2008 as its Editor’s Choice for best enterprise disk defragmenter in its upcoming May edition. In a two page review the reviewer, Eric B Rux, looked at three server level disk defragmenters - Diskeeper’s Diskeeper 2008 Server, O&O Software’s O&O Defrag 10 Server Edition, [...]

PlayTech Windows Home Server Reviewed in New Zealand PCWorld

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

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Helping New Zealand rank well at number 2 on the global WHS World Cup standings are a wide range of home servers from local system builders. One of these systems, the PlayTech Home Server which is a AMD Athlon X2 4600+ processor based system, is reviewed in the May issue of New Zealand ‘s PC World. The review is authored by [...]

Windows Home Server Reviewed in ATOMIC Magazine

Monday, April 14, 2008

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News reaches us from the Antipodes that ATOMIC magazine is running a five page article this month on Windows Home Server, written by WGS community member Stephen Reeves (Smadge1). Sections in the article include: Honey, I’m Home Add-ins Windows Home Server Console Computer & Backup Tab Client Restore User Accounts Tab Shared Folders Tab Shared Folders Properties Server Storage Tab Storage Pool What about RAID? Remote Access Network Health ‘Customisations’ Building It Yourself The [...]

Hands-On: Fujitsu-Siemens SCALEO 1900 Home Server

Thursday, April 10, 2008

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Model: SCALEO 1900 Home Server Manufacturer: Fujitsu-Siemens Price: £469.99 Website: www.fujitsu-siemens-shop.co.uk Despite the fact that we’re almost six months into the general availability of Windows Home Server, one of the most worrying statistics that must be keeping Microsoft awake at night is that HP are the only major OEM partner to have come on board with a bespoke hardware solution [...]

Hands-On: Leo Computer Piranha Home Server

Friday, February 8, 2008

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Model: Piranha Home Server Manufacturer: LEO Computer Website: http://www.leo-computer.de/ Price: TBC Whilst Windows Home Server may very much be a product of the United States (supported by some of their friends over at Microsoft China), it has been Europe that has led the way developing and launching hardware systems for the platform. Within Europe, the UK and Germany are front and centre in [...]

Review: Diskeeper 2008 HomeServer

Thursday, February 7, 2008

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What is disk fragmentation and why does it happen? As files are stored, moved, deleted, updated and so on, over time they can be potentially stored on different areas of the disk rather than in a single block. This is called disk fragmentation. There could be thousands of parts of files scattered all over the disks [...]

Review: avast! Anti Virus Windows Home Server Edition

Thursday, January 24, 2008

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There seems to be an ongoing debate as to whether or not you actually need an anti-virus solution on your Windows Home Server or not. One school of thought says that if you are running up to date anti-virus software on all of your client machines then you don’t need it, the other says you [...]

Add-In Review: Website Manager

Thursday, January 17, 2008

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Just bought a Windows Home Server? Managed to configure Remote Access? Now looking for a simple add-in that will show a link to your favourite web pages on the WHS home page? Then at first glance, Steve Van Horn’s Windows Home Server Website Manager appears to meet your needs. Following installation in the WHS Console a [...]

Add-In Review: Autoexit 2008

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

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Windows Home Server (WHS) is all about making the day to day care of your home network easy. When you install the WHS Connector Software on a client PC everything is set-up to automatically back up that machine each and every night. There is usually no further intervention required. However, if you’re the type who likes [...]

Add-In Review: Tab Scroller and Tab Reorderer

Monday, January 14, 2008

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Add-Ins are a unique feature of the Windows Home Server and one that allows infinite variability to the product, making each home server unique to its user. At the last count there were more than 50 Windows Home Server add-ins available to the WHS user, with capabilities ranging from changing the picture on your WHS Remote [...]