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Microsoft operating system based on Windows Server 2003 R2. Off topic on this site.

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HP Media Smart remote access

I just purchased this box for home backups for my pc's and mac's. Everything works great accept for the remote access part. I can RD into the machine locally but I can't get to it from outside of my network. I've enabled port forwarding on my router…
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WHS (Windows Home Server) as an backup agent for Synology

In short, can I use a WHS as the backup agent to fetch data from our windows-based servers and perform backups to a Synology nas? We just purchased a Synology 8-bay nas as our onsite backup device. We have several legacy servers as well as some…
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Windows Home Server or FreeNAS

I have a relatively small home network and host quite a few lan parties. I feel the need to have a proper NAS solution setup. I want to centralize backups instead of using external drives. I also want the ability to have a centralized network share.…
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SQL Server 2008 R2 installation/connection questions

I have a Windows Home Server connected to my home network on which I have just installed SQL Server 2008 R2, I am aiming to connect to the SQL Server installation from my laptop using SQL Management Studio using my Windows Credentials (I selected…
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Windows Home Server Backup for the Enterprise

I recently setup a Windows Home Server, and found the backup functionality to be quite good for my home network. Does Microsoft produce anything similar for Windows Server? I'd love to be able to tell my server to backup all clients in the domain,…
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WHS import old storage pool after system drive failure

I set up a Windows home server for one of our clients. Now a couple of weeks later the system drive failed. It's completely dead, no way to extract any data from it. So my question is, after I replace the drive and reinstall WHS, is there some way…
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How do you configure RRAS to use a different network segment for the VPN?

How do I configure RRAS to use a differnet network segment than my local network? Is it possible to change the IP Address for the Internal network interface on RRAS? And if so how do I do it? I would like my VPN address range to be different than…
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Windows Home Server style redundancy/multi-disk-support on Windows Server 2008 R2?

I'm setting up a fileserver for our department. It'll be connected to the domain. I want it to have a very large amount of storage (several TB). Ideally, it should also preserve disk space by identifying identical files and only storing them once.…
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Windows 7 Libraries and Windows Home Server

So I'm currently running the Windows 7 Release Candidate, and I have a fairly new Windows Home Server machine. I'm trying to add the "Video" share to the Video Library. First try gives me an error indicating that it needs to be indexed to be…
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Is it possible to setup an incremental backup strategy (e.g. WHS' version) on Windows Server 2008?

Windows Home Server (WHS) has an excellent incremental background strategy. It keeps diff. snapshots of the last three days, one for each of the last three weeks, and one for each of the last three months. Here is the Wikipedia article on…
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File sharing on Windows Home Server

I have recently added a Windows Home Server (WHS) to my network. One of the PC's on my network has directories called Photos, Music, Video etc. This PC is backed up to the WHS. Now my question is: Can I somehow mark those backed up directories as…
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The file system structure on the disk is corrupt and unusable. Please run the chkdsk utility on the volume C:\fs\X

My Windows Home Server is showing disk issues. In the Event Viewer I get the message: The file system structure on the disk is corrupt and unusable. Please run the chkdsk utility on the volume C:\fs\X. When I log onto the Windows Home Server Console…
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WHS - Windows Update Failure

Clicking "Update Now..." inside my EX470 control panel for Windows Update produces the following error message: "Windows Home Server updates installation can not complete. Please try again later. If the problem persists, please restart the…
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Windows Home Server 2011 and SSL certificates

I am running a home server with Windows Home Server 2011 and have set up Remote Web Access and Remote Desktop. I also have a valid SSL certificate from PositiveSSL which is set up on IIS. But whenever I connect with Remote Desktop or Remote Web…
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WHS sub directories permissions, can they be managed?

I have a Windows Home Server with multiple PCs and Macs connected. I also have about a dozen or so users and the list is growing. I desire the ability to control user access to a finer detail then what the WHS console seems to provide. For…
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