Tech Support Scams do not appear to be new, but I wanted to share this with everyone as a reminder that there are unscrupulous people out there. Here is the sequence of events that happen to me this week. On Friday (4/26/13) I received a call from someone that that claimed to be from the Windows Resource [...]
One of the biggest inhibitors to going to a VM environment (more in a later post) are USB devices. The worst of these devices are the Insteon Controllers. Whether using Hyper-V with a USB to IP adapter, or ESXi, I was unable to “reliably” get the these USB devices to work correctly or consistently. Add [...]
One of the best ways to protect yourself when you are out with your laptop or other portable device that requires wireless access is to use a VPN. Though not necessarily the most user friendly product to setup, the benefits in security can be worth the trouble. There are many ways to setup a VPN [...]
As most who have read my posts know, I have been a fan of iHomeserver for quite some time. One of the challenges I had was how to manage movies properly. I have more than a 130 iPad movies in my collection and with an average size of about 1 Gig for each, there is [...]
For the past 20 years, I have been impressed with Onkyo products. Not only from a feature perspective but value as well. It is difficult to find receivers that offer more features and better performance for the cost. I am happy to report that something’s never change. Recently my 10 year old Onkyo started giving [...]
It is pretty obvious from the amount of people that read my first write up on iHomeserver, that we are still looking for ways of not having to deal with iTunes. When I first started using the program it was pretty good, but as early releases often do, there where some features missing. Since that [...]
Near and dear to my heart has been all the discussion on Storage Spaces. I have tested the Server 2012 and the Window 8 versions for performance as compared to a hardware solution, and have consistently seen lower performance, especially from Windows 8. Now that they have released the beta version of Server 2012 Essentials, [...]
In my quest to extract as much usefulness as I can from my software and to make certain that my data is protected, I am always trying new and different options. Recently I was asked if AllwaySync still worked well with SkyDrive which made me revisit the possibilities of how to exploit this as well [...]
Antivirus software for servers such as Server 2008R2 and WHS 2011 have always been a debate in the HomeServerShow forums mostly to whether or not antivirus on a server is necessary. I have always been in the “Yes” camp as I would prefer that extra layer of protection especially as files are copied and accessed [...]
Back in March, I did a post on the performance results of storage spaces in Windows 8 as well as the server product. I think it was pretty obvious that I was really not impressed with either, however the version for Windows 8 was far worse in the area of performance. Given that it was [...]
Back in March of the this year I spent some time testing Storage Spaces on the Server 8 Beta, along with the Storage Spaces in Windows 8. As you can see from my prior articles, I was not too impressed with the performance in the earlier versions. Now that they have released new versions, I [...]
As you know from my “Server Upgrade – Part 1”, I had a small issue with the Fractal Case I used. Although I very much like the case, I was not able to use the last drive tray due to two missing grommets. Certainly not a big deal in the grander scheme of things as [...]
As I mentioned in part 1, I wanted to upgrade my WHS 2011 server with faster and larger drives. My WHS is becoming more and more the center of everything I do, from streaming content, to syncing my cloud services, to ripping and transcoding movies. As I am increasing the use of my server, I [...]
No matter what kind of hardware you buy sometimes things go bad. I have been running two servers for quite some time now. One as my Windows Home Server, and the other is Server 2008R2 which I use not only for backup, but use as a Hyper-V server to run a variety of VM’s. As [...]
If you are like many and are jumping on the SkyDrive band wagon you might find yourself having to install it on many systems in your house. The issue soon becomes with many of these services is that you end up installing on too many devices. Since I have many computers on my internal network, [...]
