Archive for December, 2010

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Creating a Client Side Installer for Vail

Nick Asseloos creator of many a add-in including AutoExit and AdminiMe for Windows Home Server has written an article that shows an example of how to create a Client Side installer for Vail, that can be distributed to the client machines. It requires the Windows Home Server Development Kit-2  and the Windows Home Server SDK. […]

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Ask Matt: your questions answered

Mailbag 15th December 2010 Can I move my hard drives from my old WHS to my new WHS? Does RAID & Windows Home Server really mix? How to rebuild my Windows Home Server Should I stick with WHS v1 or go for Vail when released? WHS Open Source Options Have a question or problem? I […]

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DVBLink 3.2 RC2 Available

dvblogic have released version 3.2 RC2 of DVBLink for testing. Here’s what’s new and fixed from RC1: General: Fixed: "DVBLink program has stopped responding" pop-up in MediaCenter/Extender when local MediaCenter is used simultaneously with Extender device(s) Added: New product installer for DVBLink TVSource / Net Pack Updated Dutch, German, Czech and Swedish localizations DVBLink Server […]

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Add-In: Feedsource for Windows Home Server

Friend Sam Wood of Tentacle Software have started a new closed beta for Feedsource for Windows Home Server, an add-in for version 1 users (not Vail). The add-in publishes RSS feeds for your Shared Folders through the Remote Access web site, allowing authorized users to access the Feedsource RSS feeds from inside or outside your […]

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FlexRAID – The Vail DE Alternative

SumitB the teh pretendeR! posted the following on the Erodov forums: I am not sure how many members have used or are using Windows Home Server on ??. I adopted WHS a couple of years back and the feature which made me adopt it was Drive Extender which basically allowed a user to simply plug […]

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Deal of the Week Coming Soon!!

As well as Ask Matt: your questions answered, I will also be a posting once a week the best deals to be had for Windows Home Server, which will be covering WHS servers, Hard Drives, Addins & Software. There will be a post on the forum for anyone who wants to let me know of […]

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New Forum Opens!!

Some of you may have noticed that recently the forums have been down for maintenance; well we have been very busy transferring to some new forum software with some great new features and a fantastic new look (check it out here). You don’t even have to create an account, just login with your Facebook/Twitter username […]

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The Home Server Show Podcast Episode 115

Episode 115 of "The Home Server Show" podcast is now available with the weeks Windows Home Server news, views plus lots more which you can find here.

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Connect Your Stereo to Home Server

If you would like to know how to install the Squeezebox Server software onto the HP MediaSmart Server then MediaSmart Home has the details for you. Squeezebox enables your stereo system to connect to your home network enabling you to play your audio files from your Windows Home Server in this case around your house. […]

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Home Server to the Rescue

Blogger Scott Hanselman writes his experience about his laptop dying when his OCZ SSD drive decided to die on him. Luckily for Scott he had his Home Server backing up his laptop, but he forgot to also  back up his 100MB Windows 7 system partition thus a no operating system found error was displayed on […]