Archive for June, 2008

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One Guy's Wooden Home Server

Part 2 of Building a Windows Home Server – Craftsman Style has just been published. After we detailed part 1 of this story the other day, this woodworker has built his Windows Home Server into a wooden cabinet, the craftsman style home server. You can read the full story here.

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Paul Thurrott and Leo Laporte talk Windows Home Server

In the Podcast Windows Weekly 63, hosts Paul Thurrott and Leo Laporte talk about Windows Home Server (amongst other things). Around 30 minutes into the program, the features available in Power Pack 1 (PP1) are discussed as well as Jungle Disk for Windows Home Server, an online storage solution powered by Amazon S3.    You […]

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Home Server Show Podcast – Episode 5

The Home Server Show Podcast is now at episode 5 and includes an interview with Alex Kuretz from MediaSmartServer.net along will the usual mix of news and announcements. Listen to it here.

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What's New in Windows Search 4.0

As we announced last week a copy of Windows Search 4.0 is available for Windows Home Server users. If you would like to know what is new, check out the following article at Maximum PC.

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How to Run Linux Under Windows Home Server

Thanks to Paul Scott who sent us the link to an article about running both Linux and Windows Home Server on a HP MediaSmart Server. The guide goes through the 14 steps necessary to accomplice this using a free copy of Microsoft Virtual Server and a Linux distribution of your choice.

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One Man's eHome Vision

Software Architect Eric Charran had an eHome vision for his household. His goal was to access music, photos, videos, movies and TV shows (both live or recorded) from any TV or computer in the house and stop relying on physical media. For example, he no longer had to walk upstairs to get a DVD that […]

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What does WHS and Woodworking have in Common?

One guy is throwing a few components together and building a Windows Home Server into a wooden cabinet. A beautiful symphony of woodworking and computing all in one project. The details and part list are available in part 1 Building a Windows Home Server – Craftsman Style.

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Were Not Served

As you may have noticed (and if not..tutt, tutt) We Got Served vanished from our web browsers from Thursday after being intermittent from the evening before. This was due to a lot of people hitting the site at the same time, owner Terry Walsh told us and added that he pulled down the shared server […]

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Badly Coded Add-Ins No Longer Break WHS

Microsoft’s code man Brendan Grant tells us that badly coded add-ins should not break the console no more. How? By some clever code being added to Power Pack 1 that watches out for tabs which take too long or throw exceptions on load. If either of these occur the Console will stop trying to load […]

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Free Webcast – Extend the Functionality of Windows Home Server

On June 25th there will be an informative webcast on how to extend the functionality of Windows Home Server. Hosted by Allen Buckner, Senior Product Management at HP and Terry Walsh of We Got Served. The live demonstration will show why the HP MediaSmart Server is the ultimate solution for: Accessing your files easily and […]