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SBS 2011 Essentials + Windows Phone 7 = Very cool

June 16, 2011 by Wayne Small 2 Comments

Microsoft announced today the release candidate of the Windows Server Solutions Phone Connector pictured below.  This cool Windows Phone 7 app will allow you to control a lot of facets of your SBS 2011 Essentials server right from your phone.  How very cool is that. This new app will work with Small Business Server 2011 Essentials, Windows Home Server 2011 Premium … [Read more...]

Why Archival Backups are so very important?

June 9, 2011 by Wayne Small 3 Comments

In todays move to disk based backups, we often forget the old days of tape when you had monthly archives off to tape that some people kept for a VERY long time.  Today, so many vendors and resellers focus exclusively on backing up JUST so that you can recover the business in a DR scenario.  As such we focus more on the recovery process than the longer term archival … [Read more...]

Drive Extender rising from the dead ???

December 1, 2010 by Wayne Small 6 Comments

Last week I reported here, that Microsoft had decided in their infinite wisdom to remove the Drive Extender technology they were building from SBS 2011 Essentials and Windows Home Server “Vail” both due for release in 2011.  Following this announcement there was a huge amount of outcry from the community but this outcry was actually not so much focused on the removal of … [Read more...]

Drive Extender removed from SBS 2011 Essentials

November 24, 2010 by Wayne Small 6 Comments

Sadly, today Microsoft announced that they would be ceasing development of the Drive Extender feature that was to be part of SBS 2011 Essentials and the new Windows Home Server version.  No – Microsoft are NOT cancelling SBS 2001 Essentials OR Windows Home Server, but they are removing what I consider to be a key feature to those products.  They announced it today … [Read more...]

How to diagnose a client backup failure with Windows Home Server

June 8, 2010 by Wayne Small 2 Comments

Recently my Win7 x64 desktop machine started to fail it’s backups to the Windows Home Server I have.  I attempted to do manual backups but it just hung at 0% complete as per the screen shot below. To diagnose the problem, I looked at the client side log files which are located at C:\Users\All Users\Microsoft\Windows Home Server\logs on the computer. In particular I … [Read more...]

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