Website Management Add-In Whiist UPDATED 0.78

September 8, 2007 — Philip Churchill

Whiist the Website Management Add-In for Windows Home Server has been updated to version 0.78

whist

The Add-In allows you to create and manage web content on your Home Server. After installation Whiist adds a “Website Management” tab to your Home Server Console. Using this tab you can easily create and manage new websites, photo albums, and homepage links.

More information, the download and an installation guide is available at Andrew Grant’s site, Andrewlive!

Thanks to Paul Roberts for pointing out the update.

69.png

AddThis Social Bookmark Button

Posted in Add-Ins, Windows Home Server. 3 Comments »

Access your Shared Folders

September 8, 2007 — Philip Churchill

You can access your shared folders on your Windows Home Server by either clicking on the “Shared Folders on Server” icon on the desktop or by right clicking the Windows Home Server tray icon and left clicking the “Shared Folders” text.

You may also map your shares to a drive letter on your PCs (client) by using either one of the following:

A: In My Computer, select Tools, Map Network Drive in XP or Computer and Map Network Drive on the header in Vista. Then select the letter you want to assign from the drop-down list, then click BROWSE. This opens a network navigator and you can select your server and the share you want. Finally, before clicking OK select the Reconnect at logon box to make the drive come back next session.

B: Click Start then Run and type cmd for XP. In Vista click the round orb and in the Start Search box type cmd.exe. In the box that opens type this command: NET USE <drive letter:> \\<server name>\<share name>, where <drive letter> is the drive you want to map to followed by a colon, <server name> is the name of your WHS server and <share name> is the share you want to map to. You need to add /PERSISTENT:YES to the end to make the share remains constant when you restart or log back on.

Example:

NET USE S: \\SERVER\Software /PERSISTENT:YES

that’s

NET(space)USE(space)S:(space)\\SERVER\Software(space)/PERSISTENT:YES

  69.png

AddThis Social Bookmark Button

Posted in Share, Tutorial, Windows Home Server. 1 Comment »

HP MediaSmart Servers Datasheet Available

September 8, 2007 — Philip Churchill

Thanks to HP’s Press Office we have the PDF Data Sheet for the HP MediaSmart Server. Made available for the “Your Life Is The Show” event in New York City it makes interesting reading.

HP_MediaSmart_Server_Datasheet_0001    HP_MediaSmart_Server_Datasheet_0002

HP EX470/EX475 MediaSmart Servers Datasheet. (Right Click and Save Target As…)

 69.png

AddThis Social Bookmark Button

Posted in Hardware, News, Windows Home Server. Leave a Comment »

HP’s MediaSmart Home Server Custom Software

September 8, 2007 — Philip Churchill

Thanks to Terry at We Got Served for leading us to the PC World Magazine article detailing the software that will be included with the HP MediaSmart EX470 and EX475 home servers.

Large OEM manufacturers like Dell, Packard Bell etc like to customize the software experience for the end user. Here is HP’s offering:

Customizing MediaSmart Software

MediaSmart_Server

The Suggested Configuration Steps tab guides you through customizing the server once you’ve connected it to your network. Here you set up user accounts, thereby restricting or permitting access to the server.

Remote-Access

Remote_Access

This remote-access feature enables you to connect remotely to your home server so that you can upload and download files, or access other PCs on the network via a built-in remote-desktop application.

A tool in the MediaSmart Server Console helps you assign your server a common name, either by using the HP Customizable Domain service or by going to Windows Live Custom Domains, where you can assign your server a domain name such as YourName.hpmediasmart.com or YourName.homeserver.com. As you can see via the screen shot TZO.com is also included as one of the options as well.

Media Sharing

Media_Sharing

Photo Webshare for displaying your pics with a slide show experience.

 
Share and Stream

Share_Stream

The iTunes feature that HP has added enables you to configure the server to sync iTunes libraries on connected PCs to the server, creating a single giant iTunes library that the entire household can connect to and enjoy.

69.png

AddThis Social Bookmark Button

Posted in Hardware, Other Software, Windows Home Server. 3 Comments »

OSB and Non OSB?

September 8, 2007 — Philip Churchill

As you may have noticed when we published the Windows Home Server Part Numbers that Germany had two versions available, an OSB and a Non OSB version. Thanks to the German language Homeserver Blog which led us to the source we now know what the differences are.

For your information we have included a link to a German language page at Microsoft with the details, remember Google can help with a translation.

69.png

AddThis Social Bookmark Button

Posted in News, Windows Home Server. 1 Comment »

Microsoft Hires WebGuide Add-In Developer

September 8, 2007 — Philip Churchill

Doug Berrett developer of WebGuide has been hired by Microsoft. Doug has now made WebGuide for Media Center free which means that when the version for Windows Home Server comes out of beta we will not have to pay for that either – We just hope that development continues by someone else as Doug following his promotion has decided to stop development of WebGuide apart from providing updates for significant bugs.

WebGuide is an amazing piece of software that allows you to remotely view live and recorded TV programs and to remotely schedule and manage your recorded television programs, music, pictures and videos on your Windows XP Media Center edition or Windows Vista Premium or Windows Vista Ultimate PC. 

He will be a big asset to the Windows Media Center and Windows Home Server teams.

WebGuide 

The beta version of WebGuide for Windows Home Server can be downloaded from here as well as a PDF installation guide. (Right Click and Save Target As… )

69.png

AddThis Social Bookmark Button

Posted in Add-Ins, Windows Home Server. Leave a Comment »