Obtain and Install a Secure SSL Certificate on WHS

MediaSmartHome.com has a tutorial on obtaining a secure SSL certificate for a custom domain name and installing that certificate on the Windows Home Server.

Web Server Certificate Wizard

We are shown how to obtain the custom SSL certificate and how to get into the Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager on the Home Server to import the new certificate.

Read it here.

UPDATE: The tutorial has been removed from MediaSmartHome.com but is still available at MyHomeServer.com.

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Add-In: Router Control

The first public release of the add-in Router Control has been released that allows you more control over your UPnP Internet gateway.

Router Control

Its current main feature is the traffic graph as well as RouterControl online update check and schema upload. More features are to come in future updates, including:

Show and modify UPNP port forwards
Automatic (optional) forward of Home Server Homepage
Support for IP Internet connection (not only PPP)
German translation
Download traffic statistics (CSV)
Automatic (optional) error reporting
Router down notification
Notification on new port forwards

Although this functionality is partly provided by Windows Vista, it lacks features like traffic graphs and monitoring.

More information is available from here.