New MVP’s Join Windows Home Server Division

A big welcome to the new Most Valuable Professional’s (MVP’s) who join Microsoft’s network of exceptional technical community leaders, whose area of expertise is Windows Home Server.

  • Alan Ball and from the United States
  • Henk Panneman from the Netherlands
  • Colin W Hodgson from the UK
  • Yoshihiro Okabe from Japan

These 4 join the existing 7, bringing the total of Windows Home Server MVP’s to 13 11 (woops! Slipped on the keyboard. Thanks Andrew). Great Stuff!!!

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Add-In: TV Manager

Add-in developer Brent Friedman has a new add-in for Media Center users. TV Manager copies your recordings off to your WHS for storage and management. It comes in two parts. The first part is installed on the server for management of the Recordings. And the other part is the Vista Media Center plug-in that copies new recordings over to the WHS deleting the original. It also allows you to watch the recordings like you normally would via “recorded tv” on Media Center.

TV Manager

Features:

  • Moves  the recordings to your WHS for storage, management, and later viewing.
  • Allows you to watch the recordings in Media Center as if they were on that PC’s library.
  • You can delete recordings via Media Center or the Console.
  • You can even watch the recordings in other media programs (that support dvr-ms)  via ‘C:\Users\Public\Windows Home Server\’
  • It is and always will be Freeware.

More information is available from Brent’s Blog.

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PC Magazine Mega NAS Review

PC Magazine has a massive review on Home Network-Attached Storage (NAS). Many units are given the once over, including the HP MediaSmart Server EX470. From How to Choose? to So What’s Windows Home Server? All the details are available here.

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