Archive for May, 2010

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Vail SDK – The Dashboard

With Microsoft currently promoting the Vail SDK, they have placed a document on the Microsoft Connect website which gives an overview of the “Vail” Dashboard primarily when compared to v1 Admin Console. The audience for this document is anyone who has already developed addins for Windows Home Server or who is just starting to get […]

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Introducing the Vail SDK

Dileep, the Development Lead on the Windows Home Server team introduces the WHS Vail SDK on the engineering teams blog. There is a lot of information to digest in Vail and SDK in particular. Hence we are taking this opportunity to do a series of blog posts to talk about the various extensibility points of […]

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Remote Access Problems – Check UPnP

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7uWUn2Rxr4&hl=en_GB&fs=1&] If you are experiencing remote access problems on WHS then do you have Universal Plug and Play setup and configured on your router.  HomeServerLand explains UPnP and Port Forwarding in a short video which you can find here.

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Vail SDK is Pure Awesome

Sam Wood from Tentacle Software has a list of 3 guides on using the Software Development Kit for Vail. The new SDK in Sam’s words is "pure awesome", and he provides his top 10 of awesomeness which includes: Core Add-Ins in Vail can be extended by adding your own tabs Core providers in Vail can […]

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the INQUIRER Takes a Look at Vail

the INQUIRER has a review of Windows Home Server Vail in which reviewer Kelvyn Taylor gives his first impressions. By concentrating on making it [Vail] a backup and media streaming platform with a highly customisable interface, it could become much more attractive to manufacturers, although everything’s relative and there are still only a handful of […]

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The Home Server Show Podcast Episode 89

Lance Canaday and "DieHard" talk about the Time Traveler add-in amongst many other things in episode 89 of The Home Server Show podcast, which you can find here.

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Develop an Add-In for Vail

Nick Asseloos from Asoft (who bring us the add-ins AdminiMe and AutoExit) have a guide on how to develop an ad-in for Vail. The 8 page PDF document explains how to get the SDK and setup Visual Studio and create a project with tabs and creating the config file for it. Its a great little […]

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A UPS for Home Server

Automated Home.com review a UPS which helps protect their Jukebox WHS machine. Testing the £60 APC Back-UPS CS 350 which helped protect Home Server after a 27 minute power outrage during a lightning storm So gone are the days when a UPS was an expensive luxury or only found in business server rooms.  Now there’s […]

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Off-Site WHS Backup Using Asus Webstorage

The How-To Geek return with another Windows Home Server article, with this one on backing up your Home Server off-site using the Asus Webstorage add-in. A comprehensive tutorial which covers all the details, which you can find here.

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Live Meeting – Getting Involved with WHS

If you love Windows Home Server then join a live online session tomorrow (May 4th) with Microsoft Community Managers Matt Bernardy & Jake Grey. The guys will tell you how you can get involved with Windows Home Server in programs like the Clubhouse, MVP Program, and Microsoft Answers. This Windows Community Live Meeting starts at […]