The DVBLink software allows your tuner cards to become network aware, allowing you for example to install the tuner cards into WHS and enabling you to watch TV in the lounge on Windows Media center which is accessing those tuners. The DVBLink software has been updated with new features and fixes. The major change in […]
SmallNetBuilder has a review of the Asus TS mini Home Server. The review looks at the unit, both inside and out as well as looking at the value added software Asus has included on top of the Windows Home Server platform. Specifications and performance charts for file copy read/write performance are also included. …the TS […]
Don’t Get a Drobo (Build a Server) is a post by Ian Aleksander Adams, who states: …I’ve also recommended the Drobo product in the past. After lengthy use, I’m revoking my recommendation entirely. Make some kind of home server out of an old shell or buy something that doesn’t use a proprietary data format. Yes, […]
The Shifted Librarian (also known as Jenny Levine) decided it was time to investigate a centralized backup solution, a way to listen to her music collection from anywhere, and the ability to listen to different music in different rooms of the house. Ideally she also wanted similar access for her video, with an easy way […]
The Asus TS mini Home Server in now available to the Japanese market. It finally has reached Japan (26 March 2010), and costs 49,800 Yen ($536). Powered by an Atom N280 1.66GHz processor, with 1GB of RAM (Max 2), 1TB of HDD (3.5”), an Intel 945GSE Express Card, Gigabyte Ethernet, 6x USB 2.0 ports and […]
Some MediaSmart Server 3.0 Upgrade users received their discs with the labels on the PC restore disc and server recovery disc swapped, naturally causing confusion. The error has now been corrected which affected North American English 3.0 upgrade discs for the EX470/EX475 series only. No other models, countries, and languages were affected. If your set […]
The Windows Home Server team have filmed a 10-minute feature story for the national TV show Designing Spaces, the show for homeowners and do-it-yourself enthusiasts. Entitled “Innovations for the Connected Family, Solutions for Managing and Protecting Your Media”, it was filmed to educate families and home office users about Windows Home Server. It features Senior […]
If you have ever needed to restore your Windows Home Server you would have inserted the recovery cd and carried on the recovery process from there. If you are one of the unlucky ones, your LAN device may not have the necessary drivers on the CD and the restore process will pause waiting for you […]
With the latest 3.0 software being available from HP for the previous generation EX47x/EX48x Home Servers, it is a good idea to upgrade the memory on these machines to 2GB. To help you through this process there are many tutorials available, but Timothy Daleo has gone one better and has posted a video guide on […]
There is a new add-in in the works for downloading podcasts to your Windows Home Server. Called Poca, the add-in will download podcasts without any interaction and store them for you. It does this by running as a service in the background checking RSS feeds and downloading the latest podcast(s) available. Once downloading has completed […]
