Archive for the ‘Home Server’ Category
Twelve months ago I wrote a post documenting “installing Team Foundation Server 2010 on Windows Home Server” which has proved very popular. Well things move on and since then Microsoft have released a new version of Windows Home Server (WHS 2011). There are many differences between V2 of WHS compared to V1 but the main [...]
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Tags: Team Foundation Server, TFS, Visual Studio, WHS, Windows Server
Android Remote Desktop Client
I find that I am increasingly relying on the computing power of my Android smartphone (a HTC Desire) and finding novel ways of using it to make my IT life easier. Sometimes I just want to connect to my PC that is in another room, or more often for me it’s my headless Windows Home [...]
Filed under: Geek Tech, Home Server, PowerShell, Tools & Tips, Windows | 1 Comment
Tags: Android, Home Server, PowerShell, Tools, Tools & Tips, WHS
Microsoft’s recent announcement that the key Drive Extender feature is to be removed from the new version of Windows Home Server codenamed ‘Vail’ has resulted in much dismay within the community. Many commentators, including the vocal WHS user community itself, have started to question the future of this product. In this post I give my [...]
Filed under: Cloud Computing, Home Server | 1 Comment
Tags: Home Server, linkedin, WHS, Windows Server
At last – backup is built into the TFS product, well via the Power Tools at least. Backing up TFS has always been difficult and non-intuitive without a SQL DBA in your pocket, even the documentation is at best extensive but at worse confusing. But all that’s history as the September 2010 TFS Power Tools [...]
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Tags: Home Server, Team Foundation Server, TFS, Tools, WHS
In my previous post (“Backing Up TFS 2010 Using PowerShell: Part 1”) I covered how to backup up the TFS SQL Server databases using Windows PowerShell and the SQL Server Management Objects (SMO) API. In this post I’m going to take it one stage further and add another layer of backup for the paranoid amongst [...]
Filed under: Home Server, PowerShell, Team Foundation Server | 3 Comments
Tags: PowerShell, Team Foundation Server, TFS, Tips, Tools, WHS
In a previous post I covered how to install Team Foundation Server 2010 onto a Windows Home Server. The installation was a TFS Basic Configuration installation and whilst it was geared towards Windows Home Server the concepts are the same if you are installing it on other servers / workstations. This post will cover how [...]
Filed under: Home Server, PowerShell, Team Foundation Server | 3 Comments
Tags: PowerShell, Team Foundation Server, TFS, Tips, Tools, WHS
Last October I posted about the fact that Microsoft’s Team Foundation Server 2010 was going to be shipping with a “Basic” configuration that more light weight and seen as more of a Visual SourceSafe replacement. In that post I also pointed out that it seemed possible to install this version on a Windows Home Server [...]
Filed under: Home Server, Team Foundation Server, Tools & Tips | 10 Comments
Tags: Home Server, Team Foundation Server, TFS, Visual Studio, WHS, Windows Server
Whether you manage thousands of Windows boxes in an enterprise environment or you just want a more powerful shell environment with which to manage your backup scripts on your PC, Windows PowerShell is an excellent free tool at your disposal. PowerShell V2 comes pre-installed in Windows 7 but how do you get it up and [...]
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Tags: Home Server, PowerShell, Tips, Tools, WHS
Many development teams still regularly use Visual SourceSafe for their source control which can stimulate heated debates between those that have used it for many years without problems and those that have suffered some pain with it. Regardless of this debate there is no denying that SourceSafe is coming to the end of it’s useful [...]
Filed under: Home Server, Team Foundation Server | 1 Comment
Tags: Team Foundation Server, TFS, Visual Studio
I recently setup a new Windows Home Server and this post covers why I chose this operating system and how I setup my server. Requirements: My requirement was for an extendable ‘always on’ network attached file storage solution that would allow me to access my files from any machine in the house (and ideally remotely [...]
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Tags: GeekTech, Hardware, Home Server, WHS
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