Installation: Installing Diskeeper 2008 HomeServer edition is actually not that straightforward. It’s not really difficult either, there are just a few more steps to it than most people would expect. Up until very recently there were no real instructions on how to actually do this, you had to figure it out on your own, but now Diskeeper have added instructions to their blog and will also include instructions for future users. For simplicities sake I have included some instructions here (should you have the software but not yet installed it).

Once you have downloaded the Diskeeper 2008 HomeServer edition software to your computer you have it get it onto your Windows Home Server and install it – unfortunately you cannot do this through the Windows Home Server Console, which is, as you are probably aware, the preferred method of administering and managing your Windows Home Server. Copy the installation file to a shared folder on your Windows Home Server – for example \\servername\Software (where servername is the name of your WHS).

The next step you may be unfamiliar with – you need to use the Windows Remote Desktop Connection software to connect to your Windows Home Server (you can skip this if you have a monitor, mouse and keyboard actually connected to your WHS) and install the software.

Launch the Remote Desktop Connection software from Windows and in the Computer box enter the name of your home server. The username is Administrator and the password is whatever password you are using for the Administrator account. Then just click on the Connect button and it should, all being well, make a connection to your WHS and allow you to access the machine as though you were sitting in front of it.

Now find where you copied the software to and double-click on the file called Diskeeper2008-HomeServer.exe to start the installation.

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