Tag: Microsoft
Taking Advantage of Free Cloud Storage for 3-2-1 Backup (Updated)
Even Backup guys need to practice and plan for good backup strategies. As a Microsoft Windows Home Server MVP and podcaster with the Home Server Show, you would think that of all people, I would have my backup plans documented well and in order. Well, I do, kind of. I have been running a bit loose lately and I thought it was time to tightening things up. At home, I currently run a Windows Home Server (WHS) 2011 box with about 2TB of total storage space and 2 TB of storage to back those files up. I also backup everything
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Live in the Kansas City Area? Meetup with Jim at the Microsoft Store on October 13th, 4:30pm.
I will be down in Kansas City THIS SATURDAY, October 13, 2012, visiting my college student and thought it might be fun to get a meetup going for those who cannot make the October 20th Home Server Show Meetup in Indianapolis. Right now I am planning on meeting at the Overland Park Microsoft Store, Oak Park Mall, 11467 West 95th Street, Overland Park KS 66214 at 4:30pm. Click here for a link to the store. If you think you might want to join me there, leave a comment at the bottom of the post so I can look for you
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Adding a Google Apps Email Account to Outlook.com
The new Outlook.com is out from Microsoft and it has quietly made a splash with a reported 1 million users in 6 hours. I am a Google Apps user and I have several email accounts that are not your traditional yourname@gmail.com but are myname@mydomain.com and are hosted on Gmail servers. The set up for regular Gmail accounts is fairly straight forward, the setting up an Google Apps account is not as intuitive for the average guy. Here is how you get it started. First, go out to http://outlook.com and sign in with your Microsoft ID. If you don’t have
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