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Page 1: ...RevoCenter Series User Guide Windows Home Server 2011 ...

Page 2: ... of purchase information in the space provided below The serial number and model number are recorded on the label affixed to your computer All correspondense concerning your unit should include the serial number model number and purchase information No part of this publication may be reproduced stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic mechanical photocopy ...

Page 3: ...y unit from the computer If the system has multiple sources of power disconnect power from the system by unplugging all power cords from the power supplies CAUTION for Accessibility Be sure that the power outlet you plug the power cord into is easily accessible and located as close to the equipment operator as possible When you need to disconnect the power be sure to unplug the power cord from the...

Page 4: ...oduct on a vibrating surface Never use it under sporting exercising or any vibrating environment which will probably cause unexpected short current or damage rotor devices HDD Optical drive and even exposure risk from lithium battery pack The bottom surface areas around ventilation openings and AC adapter may get hot To avoid injury ensure they do not come in contact with yourskin or body Your dev...

Page 5: ...s that may interfere with the performance of this product The system can be powered using a wide range of voltages 100 to 240 V AC The power cord included with the system meets the requirements for use in the country region where the system was purchased Power cords for use in other countries regions must meet the requirements for that country region For more information on power cord requirements...

Page 6: ...damage and will often require extensive work by a qualified technician to restore the product to normal condition Disposal instructions Do not throw this electronic device into the trash when discarding To minimize pollution and ensure utmost protection of the global environment please recycle For more information on the Waste from Electrical and Electronics Equipment WEEE regulations visit http g...

Page 7: ...o correct the interference by one or more of the following measures Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna Increase the separation between the device and receiver Connect the device into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected Consult the dealer or an experienced radio television technician for help Notice Shielded cables All connections to other computing...

Page 8: ...ass B digital apparatus complies with Canadian ICES 003 Remarque à l intention des utilisateurs canadiens Cet appareil numérique de la classe B est conforme a la norme NMB 003 du Canada Compliant with Russian regulatory certification ...

Page 9: ... This device may not cause harmful interference and 2 This device must accept any interference received including interference that may cause undesired operation The following local Manufacturer Importer is responsible for this declaration Product Server Model number RevoCenter Series Name of responsible party Acer America Corporation Address of responsible party 333 West San Carlos St San Jose CA...

Page 10: ...owing EC directives and that all the necessary steps have been taken and are in force to assure that production units of the same product will continue comply with the requirements EMC Directive 2004 108 EC as attested by conformity with the following harmonized standards EN55022 2006 AS NZS CISPR22 2006 Class B EN55024 1998 A1 2001 A2 2003 EN55013 2001 A1 2003 A2 2006 Applicable to product built ...

Page 11: ...isted below are applied to the product if built with WLAN module or wireless keyboard and mouse R TTE Directive 1999 5 EC as attested by conformity with the following harmonized standard Article 3 1 a Health and Safety EN60950 1 2001 A11 2004 EN50371 2002 Article 3 1 b EMC EN301 489 1 V1 6 1 EN301 489 3 V1 4 1 Applicable to non Bluetooth wireless keyboard mouse set EN301 489 17 V1 2 1 Article 3 2 ...

Page 12: ...mputer 32 Install the Windows Home Server Connector on the client computers 36 Connect to the Home Server Dashboard 38 3 Windows Home Server Dashboard 41 Computers Backup 41 Users 43 Server Folders and Hard Drives 44 Lights Out 47 System Information 48 Hardware Health and Performance Monitor 50 Alert Viewer 50 Settings 51 General 53 Media 54 HomeGroup 55 Remote Web Access 56 4 Managing the server ...

Page 13: ...ia Windows Phone 7 81 Alerts 82 Users 83 Devices 83 Media 84 5 Configuring the hard disk drive 85 Adding a hard disk drive 85 Removing a hard disk drive 89 Replacing a failed hard disk drive 91 6 Troubleshooting 93 First steps checklist 93 Recovering or restoring the home server 94 Specific problems and corrective actions 100 Windows Home Server 2011 Online Help 103 ...

Page 14: ...a 1 The system hard drive with OS inside is not hot swappable See Front view on page 17 for the location of the drive bay Features Powerful processor with excellent file sharing performance Fast network performance in the home is delivered through a Gigabit Ethernet connection Equipped with Microsoft s Windows Home Server operating system to help you centralize and connect your digital assets Back...

Page 15: ...15 Media files on page 76 for more information Remotely wakeup the home server See When the back up process is completed the USB backup indicator turns solid white on page 81 ...

Page 16: ...g System Windows 7 Home Basic x86 and x64 Windows 7 Home Premium x86 and x64 Windows 7 Professional x86 and x64 Windows 7 Ultimate x86 and x64 Windows 7 Enterprise x86 and x64 Windows 7 Starter x86 The Windows Vista Operating System Windows Vista Home Basic with Service Pack 2 SP2 x86 and x64 Windows Vista Home Premium with SP2 x86 and x64 Windows Vista Business with SP2 x86 and x64 Windows Vista ...

Page 17: ... MPEG 1 WMV VC 1 AVI DVR MS H 264 MPEG 4 AVC WMA MPEG 1 Layer 3 WAV LPCM AAC JPEG PNG RAW mpeg mpg wmv avi drv ms mp4 wma mp3 wav m4a m4h mp4 jpg png Physical dimensions WxHxD 200 x 180 x 212 mm Weight without HDD 4 5 kg with 1 HDD 5 1 kg No Icon Component 1 Power button power indicator 2 System status indicator ...

Page 18: ... disk drive HDD status indicator 4 Network indicator 5 USB backup button USB backup indicator 6 USB 2 0 port 7 Front door Open the door to access the hot swappable HDDs 8 HDD access indicators No Icon Component ...

Page 19: ...it please unplug the device and plug it into another USB port to see if it works If it doesn t unplug the device and reboot the system then plug the device into a USB port again No Icon Component 1 Recovery reset button 2 eSATA port 3 USB port 4 Gigabit Ethernet port 5 Power connector 6 System fan ...

Page 20: ...ut the status of the system its hard drives and network connection No Indicator Color State Description 1 Power button White On System is connected to the power supply and turned on and ready for use Random blink System is booting System is in Sleep mode Off System is not powered on System initialize operation in progress ...

Page 21: ...tus is at risk Random blink System recovery or reset is in progress 3 HDD status Purple On System not initialized Brand new HDD is mounted before disk format is performed Random blink HDD is mounted into the drive bay and is in the process of being manually added into the server storage HDD is in the process of being removed from the server storage HDD Failure White On HDD is mounted into the driv...

Page 22: ... USB port Backup completed Random blink System is backing up files from a USB storage device For detailed instructions on how to back up files from a USB storage device see Using the one touch USB backup feature on page 79 Off USB storage device unmounted 6 HDD access White Blink HDD is in use Off No HDD activity Purple Blink HDD failure No Indicator Color State Description ...

Page 23: ...olor State Description 1 Speed indicator None Off 10 Mbps connection Green On 100 Mbps connection Amber On 1000 Mbps connection 2 Link activity indicator Green On Network link is detected Random blink Transmit or receive activity Off No network connection ...

Page 24: ...ct a location for the home server Ensure your computer meets the minimum specifications required Connect the power cord Connect to the home network Power on the system Install the Windows Home Server Connector on the first computer Install the Windows Home Server Connector on the client computers Connect to the Home Server Dashboard ...

Page 25: ...ecovery Disc Use this disc to recover your home server after a system failure or restore the home server to its factory default Refer to Recovering or restoring the home server on page 94 for detailed instructions Quick Start Guide Warranty card If any of the above items are damaged or missing contact your reseller or retailer from which you purchased this product ...

Page 26: ...iency Consider the following factors when choosing a site for the system Near a grounded power outlet Clean and dust free Stable surface free from vibration Well ventilated and away from sources of heat Secluded from electromagnetic fields produced by electrical devices such as air conditioners radio TV transmitters etc ...

Page 27: ...s 7 Ultimate x86 and x64 Windows 7 Enterprise x86 and x64 Windows 7 Starter x86 The Windows Vista Operating System Windows Vista Home Basic with Service Pack 2 SP2 x86 and x64 Windows Vista Home Premium with SP2 x86 and x64 Windows Vista Business with SP2 x86 and x64 Windows Vista Ultimate with SP2 x86 and x64 Windows Vista Enterprise with SP2 x86 and x64 Windows Vista Starter with SP2 x86 The Win...

Page 28: ...s to 1000 Mbps Gigabit Ethernet connection Broadband connection DSL or cable Broadband router DHCP enabled and meets UPnP standards Digital media player for streaming media files iTunes 7 1 or later Windows Media Player 10 or later ...

Page 29: ...29 Connect the power cord Plug the power cord into the power connector and the other end into an electrical outlet ...

Page 30: ...r with a network cable Wireless connection to your broadband router is not supported However home computers that are connected through a wireless connection are supported Connect one end of the network cable into the network port and the other end to a Gigabit Ethernet port on a broadband router ...

Page 31: ...The LED indicators on the front panel will flash change colors and turn to solid white after startup Note During initial startup the system status indicator on the front panel will flash purple and turn to solid white This is a normal power up sequence Wait for all the LED indicators to turn solid white before proceeding to the next section To power down the system just press the power button ...

Page 32: ...r Connector on your computer Note Prior to installing the Windows Home Server Connector make sure you have administrator privileges Refer to the Windows Help for more details on changing your user account settings 1 Please go to Explorer and find your RevoCenter in other devices then double click the device icon to get started the set up process ...

Page 33: ...33 2 Click the Download and run the setup wizard icon 3 Click the Download Software for windows icon to help you connect this computer to the server ...

Page 34: ...s are installed the Windows Home Server Connector installation starts to find and connect to your RevoCenter Series After the installation process is done there will be a pop up window to ask for password to enter dashboard ...

Page 35: ... PC the Windows Home Server Connector installer will download and install it This process may take some time Note Please ensure your PC s wireless and wired connections are on the same subnet to avoid causing problems when setting up Windows Home Server ...

Page 36: ... connector software on other computers 1 Please go to Explorer and find your home server with the computer name you have assigned in other devices then double click the device icon to get started the set up process 2 Click the Download Software for windows icon to help you connect this computer to the server ...

Page 37: ...onnector directly from the home server 1 Open a Web browser 2 In the address bar enter http RevoCenter 65510 connect where RevoCenter is the name of the home server 3 Under Windows Home Server Connector Setup click Download software for windows 4 Follow all onscreen installation instructions until you finish installation Note If Microsoft Net 4 0 isn t installed on your PC the Windows Home Server ...

Page 38: ... the home server you need to log onto the Windows Home Server Dashboard Note Make sure you have the administrator password to the home server There are two ways to launch Windows Home Server Dashboard To log onto the home server using the Windows Start menu 1 On your computer click Start Programs Windows Home Server 2011 Windows Home Server 2011 Dashboard 2 Enter the administrator password then cl...

Page 39: ...rver using Windows Home Server icon 1 On your computer click Start Programs Windows Home Server 2011 Launch Pad then use your predefined User name and password to log in 2 There will be four short cuts in the launch pad as below ...

Page 40: ...40 3 Click the Dashboard icon and enter your administrator password to log in the dashboard main page ...

Page 41: ... backup computers and manage user accounts shared folders on the server Windows Home Server Console provides access to the following tabs Home User Accounts Computers and Backup Server Folders and Hard Drives Lights Out System Information To learn more about configuring the Windows Home Server click Help on the console to open the Windows Home Server Dashboard Help Computers Backup You can use the...

Page 42: ... home server The options on the Computers Backup tab allow you to View the computer properties Start a backup for the computer Restore files or folders for the computer Customize Backup for the computer Remove the computer Additional client computer backup tasks Change the server password ...

Page 43: ...elete a user account from the home server For more information see User Accounts in the Windows Home Server Dashboard Help Note 1 You can only have full access to the shared media folders Video Photo Music after creating user accounts Otherwise you can only read files but not save files to the home server 2 A personal shared folder is created each time you add a new user account By default only th...

Page 44: ...eos Documents Recorded TV From the Windows Home Server 2011 Dashboard you can specify the user permissions for these folders and create a number of new shared folders Easy to Add More Storage From the Windows Home Server 2011 Dashboard you can format new uninitialized hard drives using a simple wizard As you add formatted drives you can move your shared folders to specific storage device using the...

Page 45: ...ve s properties will display Shadow Copy options Shadow Copies is the technology that enables the use of previous versions on the shared folders Previous versions can be accessed from any authorized user by right clicking the file or folder inside the shared folders From the Previous Versions tab you can restore copy or open the previous version ...

Page 46: ...dows Home Server Dashboard displays all the hard drives installed on your home server You can view add repair and remove hard drives from the home server The options on the Hard Drives tab allow you to Server Backup This option allows you to back up all your home server shared folders If you use an external hard drive for your home server backups you can store the hard drive in a separate location...

Page 47: ...d events Status panel Shows status information like service state update information etc License panel Shows the current state of a trial license and is used to buy and install a license Monitored sources This panel shows all enabled sources which are monitored for activity Power Saving This panel gives an estimate of your server s power consumption and your energy costs Next calendar events This ...

Page 48: ...er RevoCenter Home Server Displays basic information about the home server such as the specification of the processor and memory currently installed in the home server BIOS version and operating system version LED Brightness Allows you to adjust the brightness of the LED indicators on the home server Remotely Wake Up RevoCenter Home Server Allows you to enable or disable remote wakeup feature Hard...

Page 49: ...ightness field drag the slider in a horizontal manner to a desired position Note When you restart the Home Server the LED brightness will revert back to its default settings Note The Wi Fi settings can only be enabled when a wireless module is embedded in the system ...

Page 50: ...h and Performance Monitor page you can configure the following settings Auto Refresh Sets the refresh interval to tell Windows Home Server how frequent the monitoring data should be performed Performance settings Sets the performance threshold of the CPU Memory and Storage Alert Viewer The Alert Viewer tab displays health notifications from your home server and your home computers You can view the...

Page 51: ...dows Home Server icon click Help Green your home network is healthy Yellow your home network is at risk Red your home server has found a critical problem Blue tray information such as backup White tray disconnected Those icons will be provided separately Settings The Settings button on the upper right hand corner of the Windows Home Server Dashboard window allows you to configure your home ...

Page 52: ...erver settings The Settings window provides a variety of administrative options In the Settings window you can configure the settings for the following categories General Media Home Group Remote Web Access ...

Page 53: ...3 General The General settings page allows you to modify the date and time language selection Windows Update settings Customer Experience Improvement program and enable or disable Windows error reporting ...

Page 54: ...54 Media The Media settings page allows you to enable or disable Windows Home Server media sharing capabilities And also the to set up video streaming quality ...

Page 55: ...ter you purchase or install the server you can create a HomeGroup for your computer network If a HomeGroup already exists you can join it After you create or join a HomeGroup you can select the shared folders that you want to share with the HomeGroup You can prevent specific files or folders from being shared and you can share additional folders later You can leave a HomeGroup at any time Note You...

Page 56: ...Series home page 1 Double click the Windows Home Server icon in the system tray 2 Log on to the Windows Home Server Launchpad then click Dashboard icon to log in with administrator password 3 Click Settings 4 In the navigation pane select Remote Web Access 5 Under Router click Setup to configure your broadband router Make sure your router supports UPnP standards and the UPnP setting must be enable...

Page 57: ...ample smithfamily homeserver com A domain name uniquely identifies your home server on the Internet It is used to connect to your home server while you are away from home Even if your Internet IP address changes you can still connect to your home network with your personalized domain name For example you could register the name smithfamily homeserver com and then use that name to connect to your R...

Page 58: ...58 8 After you configure remote access test the remote connectivity from outside of your home Refer to Access the RevoCenter Series home page on page 71 ...

Page 59: ...reate user accounts Add a shared folder Configure backup for home computers Back up the home server Access the RevoCenter Series home page Access the shared folders on the home server Enable iTunes service Stream Media files Using the one touch USB backup feature To learn more about using the Windows Home Server Console to configure the home server refer to 3 Windows Home Server Dashboard on page ...

Page 60: ... you must add matching user accounts on Windows Home Server and give access privileges to individual shared folders To enable the guest account The guest account can be used to give access to shared folders for users that do not have their own user account for Windows Home Server Enabling the guest account will provide default Read permission to the shared folders Music Photos Videos Public and So...

Page 61: ...ick View the account properties be sure the user account check box is selected Caution If you have a wireless network secure it before you enable the guest account with no password For more information see the documentation for your wireless device ...

Page 62: ...erver icon in the system tray 2 Log on to the Windows Home Server Launch pad 3 Click the Dashboard icon 4 Click Users tab then click Add a user account 5 On the User Accounts Setup window click Change the password policy set a user accounts password policy 6 Click Next ...

Page 63: ...ess to the shared media folders Video Photo Music after creating user accounts Otherwise you can only read files but not save files to the home server 2 When you create user accounts on Windows Home Server use logon names that match the logon names of your existing user accounts on your home computers Also use the same password that you use for your existing user accounts If the user accounts and ...

Page 64: ...ur home network 1 Double click the Windows Home Server icon in the system tray 2 Log on to the Windows Home Server Dashboard 3 Click the Server Folders and Hard Drives icon 4 Click Server Folders tab then select Add a folder 5 Type a name and description for the folder and select Location then click Next 6 Select who can access this folder 7 Click Close ...

Page 65: ...nnector to the home computer all hard drive volumes on the home computer are automatically backed up each night To configure backup for a computer 1 Double click the Windows Home Server icon in the system tray 2 Log on to the Windows Home Server Launch pad then click the Dashboard icon 3 Click the Computers Backup tab 4 Select the computer and then click Start a back up for the computer ...

Page 66: ...66 5 The back up status will be displayed in the Back up status column ...

Page 67: ...ou have backup copies of important files that are located in your Windows Home Server To back up the home server 6 Double click the Windows Home Server icon in the system tray 7 Log on to the Windows Home Server Dashboard 8 Click Customize Backup for the server then click Next ...

Page 68: ...68 9 Be sure that Show all disks that can be used as back up disks is selected then select the drive you would like to use to back up your home server 10 Click Next and label the destination disks ...

Page 69: ...69 11 Click Next and specify the back up schedule 12 Click Next And select which items to back up ...

Page 70: ...70 13 Confirm the back up settings and click Apply settings 14 When you ve finished the Back up HDD configuration you can the back up the drive info from the Dashboard ...

Page 71: ...s and remotely administer your home server over the Web Some features such as accessing the home computers or the Windows Home Server Dashboard are not available when you use other Web browsers To access the RevoCenter Series home page Note You cannot use the guest or administrator account to access the home page You must log on with a personal user account that is enabled for Remote Access 1 Make...

Page 72: ...he Web page Computers Allows you to perform remote administration on the home server and the home computers To access your home server click Connect to your Home Server on the Computers tab and enter the administrator password The Windows Home Server Console interface opens To access your home computers click the name of the home computer under the Remote Access to Computers field on the Computers...

Page 73: ...e access privileges over the Internet Media Library Allows you to remote streaming media files that is stored on the default share folders Pictures Music Videos Links Allows you to link home server blog and communities to acquire useful information Note Repeating playback of remote streamed media isn t available on Windows Home Server 2011 ...

Page 74: ...ers on the home server To access the shared folders using the Windows Home Server icon 1 Right click the Windows Home Server icon in the system tray 2 Click Shared Folders 3 Double click a shared folder in the window to open it ...

Page 75: ...rver access To enable iTunes service 1 Double click the Windows Home Server icon in the system tray 2 Log on to the Windows Home Server Launch pad then log on to Dashboard 3 Click System information then select iTunes Server 4 Under iTunes Server click the Enable check box 5 Specify how often iTunes can scan the home server for new music files 6 Enter a password to protect iTunes server 7 Click Ap...

Page 76: ...ia Player 11 or iTunes to play music files stored on the home server to your computer To stream audio in Windows Media Player 11 1 Make sure that media sharing is enabled 2 Make sure Digital Media Server is enabled 3 Open the Windows Media Player ...

Page 77: ...77 4 Click the Library tab The Acer RevoCenter Series appears in the navigation pane 5 Browse or search for the item you want to play then click the Play button ...

Page 78: ... to Enable iTunes service on page 75 for more information 2 Open the iTunes The Acer RevoCenter Series appears under Shared on the left of the iTunes window Audio files are streamed in iTunes and displayed under the Shared list 3 Browse or seach for the item you want to play then click the Play button ...

Page 79: ...folders first then classifies the files according to media type into their corresponding shared folders namely Music Videos Photos When Windows Home Server cannot determine file type the file is automatically stored into the Others folder Important Only the front USB port supports the backup feature To use one touch USB backup to back up data from a USB storage device 1 Plug the USB device into th...

Page 80: ... there is a conflicting file name the data will be copied but will be assigned a serial number on the file name If a file of exactly the same properties already exists in the Public shared folders the file will be filtered out of from the copy process 4 Afterwards Windows Home Server automatically copies and classifies the newly copied files according to their file type 5 You can find files of dif...

Page 81: ... on the Windows Phone 7 device you can perform the following Stream media files Download or upload files to shared folders Browse the Alert Viewer from the server View user account details from the server View the computers on your home network and their MAC details 1 Make sure the home server is configured for remote access See Remote Web Access on page 56 Note You may need to add services from y...

Page 82: ...assword for the server and press Sign In Note If you want to download or upload files to folders you must log on with a personal user account that has read write authority Alerts The alerts panorama is the first panorama you will see It contains a listing of the alerts from the server These are the same alerts that you would see in the server s Alert Viewer ...

Page 83: ...er account details Enable disable a user account Change a user account password Devices The devices panorama lets you View the computers on your home network and their MAC details View the backup status that every device last reported to the server Start or stop a backup for any computer or the server ...

Page 84: ...84 Media The media panorama lets you discover and view streams of media elements stored on your server ...

Page 85: ...D bay is not hot swappable Adding a hard disk drive Caution Hard drives are formatted before they are added to the server storage Make sure that you back up any important files that are on the hard drive before you add it to server storage Formatting a hard drive deletes all files on the hard drive 1 Install the new HDD to the home server 1 Open the door of the home server ...

Page 86: ...h 1 3 Pull the lever 2 and slide the HDD carrier from the chassis 3 4 Insert the new drive into the right side of the carrier aligning the pins into the HDD s mounting holes 1 5 Slightly bend the left side rail and insert the pins into the HDD s mounting holes 2 ...

Page 87: ...hen close the lever 2 8 Close the door of the home server 2 Add the Brand new hard drive to the server storage on Windows Home Server Console 1 Double click the Windows Home Server icon in the system tray 2 Log on to the Windows Home Server Launchpad then log on to Dashboard Note If the hard drive you plan to add on to home server has been formatted you can see the drive information in home server...

Page 88: ...88 3 Click the Alert Viewer 4 Select the new hard drive warning message then click Format the hard disk 5 Select the hard disk to format then click Format disk ...

Page 89: ...a Server Back up drive from the Windows Home Server Console 1 Double click the Windows Home Server icon in the system tray 2 Log on to the Windows Home Server Launchpad then log on to Dashboard 3 Click the Server Storage tab 4 Select the hard drive you want to remove then click Remove to run the Remove a Hard Drive wizard 5 Click Next 6 Click Finish 7 The HDD indicator of the selected drive lights...

Page 90: ...ome server Note Before removing the HDD make sure the HDD indicator on the front panel lights purple 1 Open the door of the home server 2 Press the HDD carrier latch 1 3 Pull the lever 2 and slide the HDD carrier from the chassis 3 ...

Page 91: ... Removing a hard disk drive section 2 Remove the HDD from the carrier 1 Gently pry open the left side rail 1 2 as shown 2 Remove the drive from the carrier 3 3 Install the new HDD into the carrier 1 Insert the new drive into the right side of the carrier aligning the pins into the HDD s mounting holes 1 ...

Page 92: ...92 2 Slightly bend the left side rail and insert the pins into the HDD s mounting holes 2 4 Install the new HDD to the home server ...

Page 93: ...able at the wall outlet Are the power supplies plugged in Check the AC cable s on the back of the chassis and at the AC source Are all cables correctly connected and secured Are all peripheral devices correctly installed Are all device drivers properly installed Did you press the system power button on the front panel to turn the system on power indicator should be lit Is the system power cord pro...

Page 94: ... the home server to its factory default In Server Recovery the home server s system settings and user accounts will be lost When you select the Factory Reset option all data on the home server s hard drives will be lost To recover the home server 1 Place the RevoCenter Series Server Recovery DVD in the DVD drive of a computer connected to the network Or double click on the Acer ServerRecovery Util...

Page 95: ... you agree with the terms of the agreement then select the I accept the terms of the user license agreement option button 4 Please prepare a USB pen drive which is larger than 8 GB connect to the client PC and then click Next to create the USB back up image ...

Page 96: ... button to turn on the system after you hear the beep sound quickly insert a paperclip into the Recovery pin hole at the back of the system The system will reboot Please wait till the i LED blinks purple 6 Put the Server Recovery DVD in a client PC and run the server recovery utility be sure to select Skip creating the bootable USB flash device ...

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Page 98: ...98 7 Select Restore your server from a back up Use this option to recover from a system failure You will lose your system settings and user accounts Data recovery will be attempted Recommended ...

Page 99: ...99 8 Click Next and follow all onscreen instructions until you finish recovery process ...

Page 100: ...er cannot connect to a network and the network indicator on the front panel does not light Make sure the network cable is securely attached to the correct connector at the system rear panel Try a different network cable Make sure the broadband router has power Home computer cannot connect to the home server Make sure the power button on the front panel is turned on Make sure the network indicator ...

Page 101: ...t the Windows Home Server Dashboard from the drop down menu 4 Click OK Web browser cannot display the RevoCenter Series Remote Access page when accessing through URL Make sure the Web Site Connectivity in Settings is turned on Make sure JavaScript is enabled on your browser To enable JavaScript in Internet Explorer 7 1 From the Internet Explorer menu go to Tools then select Internet Options 2 Choo...

Page 102: ...ter click Add to enter those user accounts 6 If you use Windows Firewall open Control Panel and then double click Windows Firewall Verify that Windows Firewall is on Click the Exceptions tab and then verify that Remote Desktop is selected 7 Restart your computer To configure computers that are running Windows Vista 1 Log on to the computer with a user account that has administrator privileges 2 Cl...

Page 103: ... on Click Change Settings and then click Continue Click the Exceptions tab then verify that Remote Desktop is selected 7 Restart your computer I forgot the Windows Home Server password If you don t remember the password you must reset the home server Refer to Recovering or restoring the home server on page 94 for more information Troubleshooting Windows Home Server 2011 Online Help If you have any...

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