The Week in Review – Sunday's Summery

• Over on the eWEEK Microsoft Watch blog, author Joe Wilcox has been chatting to Brian Burch, Hewlett-Packard’s marketing director for the Managed Home Business Personal Systems group at CES 2008 about the company’s Windows Home Server system the MediaSmart Server. Brian said:“Sales are so…

• WebGuide for WHS is out as a free add-in that enables you to remotely access, listen, watch and stream your music, photos and videos stored on your home server while away from home. It Integrates with the Windows Home Server remote web site via the homepage link and a single-signon and enables you…

•      PCMAG.COM have a detailed review on the HP MediaSmart Server EX470. The 4 page review concludes by stating the following:Overall, the MediaSmart sets the current standard for home NAS servers: It’s the new Editors’ Choice in this class. Fast performance on Gigabit Ethernet networks…

The OWL-PCCHS is a new Windows Home Server case from Owltech which can take 4 hard drives and a Mini-ITX motherboard. But it looks exactly the same as the ES34069 chassis from Chenbro which we looked at here. Perhaps they are the manufacturer of the case?      More info and pics. […]

• I was woefully aware that I needed an anti-virus solution for my Windows Home Server – I’d had it up and running for 3 months and it had zero protection. I’ve been a fan (if you can call it that) of CA’s Anti-Virus for years. However, with the installation of Windows Home Server I began…

• Thanks to our correspondent Andrew Edney who is at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2008) we have some pictures and information for you direct from the event in Las Vegas.Really cool are all of the columns outside the South Hall entrance are wrapped in WHS advertisements. Andrew says apart from…

• British magazine Personal Computer World has an online review of the HP MediaSmart Server EX470. They state its “Slow off the starting blocks, but HP’s Windows Home Server interface is polished”. Read the review here.

Windows Home Server Power Pack Announced Courtesy of enthusiast site Channel 10 is a video with Todd Headrick from the Home Server team explaining some details on Power Pack 1.

• Today at CES 2008 in Las Vegas Microsoft announced details on Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 (PP1). Formally known as UR1 or Update Release 1, PP1 will be available for free via Windows Update/Microsoft Update when it becomes available in the first half of this year (2008).So why a Power Pack?…

• In a soon-to-be-published research report, Forrester Research analyst J.P. Gownder figures that home servers (not just those running Microsoft’s home server product) will reach 4.5 million households by 2012. That’s up from just 190,000 such servers last year.Gownder said “That’s a pretty…

• Over at CNET, a guy by the name of Greg Hoza posted this under a thread for 2008 predictions on their forums: I predict that (qualifying): For families with more than 2 computers in the home that the WINDOWS HOME SERVER will become as common as the IPod. I say this in light of the advent […]

• Windows Home Server has been hard to find on retail shelves, but Microsoft product manager Joel Sider has stated that HP’s MediaSmart Server will be available in the US at Circuit City stores this week and is expected to be on Best Buy shelves later in the month. […]

• The Windows Home Server Team Blog have details on Power Pack 1 for Windows Home Server, the first minor release for WHS that will ship in the first half of this year (2008).More details later today. In the meantime, check out the post here.

• The German Home Server Blog has the details that developer Alexander Köplinger has updated his add-in OnTheFlyUnzipper for January (2008). The add-in allows you to zip up (or rar) hundreds of files together and upload them to your Windows Home Server. The add-in will then automatically uncompress…

• We Got Served has a tutorial on how to integrate Windows Update Services v3 (WSUS) into Windows Home Server. WSUS is a local copy of Windows Update/Microsoft Update that is stored on the server and automatically installs the updates to all the other machines on your network. The tutorial is written…