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Moira Whidby – Windows Home Server: Microsoft

Posted Sep 20 2009 by in Microsoft, WHS with 0 Comments

Varvid’s Aaron Booker interviews Moira Whidby from the Windows Home Server unit at Microsoft. Windows Home Server is the backup solution of choice for partners with small businesses of less than 10 people. With remote access partners can access computers and retrieve files for clients. Partners can learn more about the business use of Windows Home Server on its homepage. Once there at the bottom of the screen, there is a button that says small office/home office.

Dean Paron – Principal Architect Windows Server Solutions Group

Posted Sep 19 2009 by in Microsoft Partner Network, WHS, WPC with 0 Comments

Aaron Booker from Varvid interviews Dean Paron, the Principal Architect of the Windows Server Solutions Group. They are the group builds Windows Home Server, Small Business Server, Essential Business Server, and Windows Server Foundation. He explains some things you can do with Windows SBS 2008 that you didn’t know you can do. There are tools built into the SBS 2008 program that help you manage your internet domain name. You can manage pre-existing domain names without needing to buy a new one. He also explains what Windows Server Foundation is.

Windows Home Server Consumer Case Study

Posted Aug 1 2008 by in SBS, Web/Tech, WHS with 1 Comment

We enjoyed working with Steven Leonard and Mark Pendergrast on the WHS team, putting together a video case study on Windows Home Server.  Full Disclosure – the subjects are the CEO (and his girlfriend) of a company we do Outsourced IT for (Blythe Plumbing & Heating).  You can learn more about Windows Home Server here.  I’m sure everybody reading this knows that WHS is a great "Home" Server, but we’re using it with four clients now in a business setting.  We think that WHS is a great low cost way to backup Windows laptops and key desktops.  Because the backups are image based, the backups happen super quickly (after the first one).  You can learn more about WHS backup here.  Keep in mind that whereever it says "family," we see small business.  WHS works in a workgroup (or domain!) environment, and will backup up to 10 computers. (workgroup limitation)

We are also using WHS as a SOHO NAS – with hosted exchange as part of a managed service offering.  We’re looking forward to S+S from Microsoft to help us expand on that combined local premise plus hosted solution…VARvid!