The Icy Dock MB561US-4 is a high capacity four drive enclosure ideal to expand your HP Media Smart or Acer Aspire EasyStore Windows Home Server. And bit-tech.net has details of the perl white USB and eSATA multi bay external enclosure, which you can read about here.
The add-in MSS Fan Control has been updated to work with the 3.0 software upgrade from HP. MSS Fan Control supports EX47x servers running either HP 1.3 or 3.0 software and allows you to change the behavior of the exhaust fans in the MediaSmart Server. More details are available from here.
If you are an add-in developer then Andreas M has a post on how to implement an update check into your add-ins. All the details and the code are available from here.
Although the add-in AdminMe has 99.99% of its functionalities enabled in the unregistered version, it is recommended to register a small license fee and support it’s development. And as an incentive the developers "ASoft" are offering a spring special where you can order the add-in for just $6 (€6/£6). The add-in constantly monitors your server […]
There is a simple tool available which makes it easy to open ports on your home router. Simple Port Forwarding is a free application which supports over 1,100 models of router. The app saves the steps to configure the router into its database and updates your router without the need of you doing it yourself, […]
The dudes at Tested.com have a really good guide on how to rid your DVDs to play on any device. Ripping your DVD collection to a compressed, more compatible format will enable you to store more DVDs on Windows Home Server and allow you to stream them to your Windows Mobile, Zune, iPod/iPhone etc. Its […]
Going from a "Frankenbox" build to a MediaSmart EX485 from HP, Jason Dunn filled the bays with the fast, quiet and power-efficient Western Digital Caviar Green series hard drives. Was it worth the switch going from the self build to the HP unit? Jason says absolutely. It allowed him to go from a mess to […]
Timothy Daleo has a great video on how to setup the iTunes Server for those of you using the 3.0 software on a HP MediaSmart. The video shows how to configure the server for iTunes and setup the associated HP Media Collector. You can find the video here.
The How-To Geek looks at how to enable media streaming in Windows Home Server to Windows Media Player in both Vista and Windows 7. The tutorial takes you through the process of getting it setup and configured which you can find here.
The Home Server Show podcast episode 81 is out with the latest news and views about all things Home Server. Its available here.
