WHS Presentation/Demonstration in BC, Canada

January 22, 2008 — Philip Churchill

If you live in or near BC in Canada then VANTUG (Vancouver Technology User Group) will be securing a visit from Kevin Beares, the Windows Home Server Community Manager in Redmond on February 4th. The Windows Home Server (WHS) Technology and Features Presentation/Demonstration starts at 6PM and Kevin (WHS Community Lead) will discuss and/or demonstrate the following:

  • Microsoft’s goals for the digital home and where WHS fits into achieving those goals
  • The technology behind WHS
  • The features of the product
  • Available pre-packaged hardware and hardware requirements if you want to “roll your own”
  • Third party extensions to WHS
  • Power Pack 1 announced at CES 2008
  • Beyond WHS V1

There will also be some great draw prizes including 40 copies of WHS (wow!) webcams and wireless mice.

Follow the following link to register.

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Add-In: Advanced Admin Console

January 22, 2008 — Philip Churchill

Advanced Admin Console

This is an add-In intended for advanced users that allows you to administer and have full control over your Home Server at any time. It allows to jump to the following areas of your Home Server within the Home Server Console:

  • Control Panel
  • Printers and Faxes
  • Administrative Tools
  • Start Menu
  • “My Computer” (Which really should be called “My Server” on Windows Server SKUs)
  • My Network Places
  • Workgroup
  • Network Connections

You can also launch a Command Prompt, PowerShell (if installed), Task Manager and Registry Editor from the add-in menu as well. Thus, it is unnecessary for the majority of administrative tasks to connect to your Home Server via Remote Desktop.

More info and the download are available from Andreas’ Space.

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Home-Serv from Hi-Grade

January 22, 2008 — Philip Churchill

Home-Serv 1000

We Got Served have details of a new range of Windows Home Server hardware, this time from Hi-Grade. The Home-Serv 1000 and 2000 are both powered by an Intel Celeron 1.8Ghz processor and come with either 512MB of memory and 2×250Gb HDD’s or 1024Mb of memory and 2×500Gb HDD’s. The Home-Serv 1000 is priced at £350 whilst the higher spec Home-Serv 2000 is priced at £450.

Home-Serv 2000

Get the specs from Hi-Grade.

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