Author Archive for Philip Churchill

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Publish your Outlook Calendars on WHS

The Home Server Show has a post for Outlook users which shows you how to publish your Outlook calendars using the WebDAV capability of the Windows Home Server. WebDAV is a protocol used to publish content to the IIS web server which is built into Home Server and also enables you to manage that content […]

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Windows Home Server Recovers Outlook

Larry Lentz has a great story where his wife accidentally wiped the contents of an important Note she was keeping in Outlook, but since the Windows Home Server went in at Christmas, Larry was able to to recover Outlook’s OST file in a couple of minutes. Larry takes us through the steps here.

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The History of Home Server

The Computer Techno website has a brief history of Windows Home Server from its incarnation in late 2007 through the Power Packs to Windows Home Server v2. The post also takes a look at the various manufacturers providing WHS hardware. You can read it here.

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The Home Server Show Podcast Episode 76

The Home Server Show podcast #76 has the latest WHS news and views this week from John, Chris, and Dave. You can catch it here.

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Add-In: WHS Health 1.0.0.10

The add-in WHS Health has been updated to version 1.0.0.10 with the following changes: Renamed Console Errors to Console Status Icon Added to Console Status Item Updated Icons Better handling of “non standard” web site configurations. WebSites.XML for both home and remote pages updated on install and cleaned on uninstall. Changes in Settings tab now […]

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Setup and Use the WHS Toolkit

If you are having connection issues with Windows Home Server then you need the Windows Home Server Toolkit. The How-To Geek have a guide on installing Microsoft’s utility and explains how to use the Connector Troubleshooter element of the toolkit as well as it’s advanced mode. You can read the guide here.

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Power Pack 3 Wins Best Integration Tool Award

The Digital Lifestyle.com have just announced the winners of their 5th annual award ceremony, aimed at Media Center enthusiasts. It’s good to see that under the "Best Integration Tool" category, Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 came in 1st place. Congratulations to Power Pack 3 for bringing Media Center and Windows Home Server closer together.

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DVBLink 2.0.1

DVBLogic have updated 2 components of their DVBLink software to version 2.0.1. For the DVBLink Server Network Pack the picture break-up and stuttering in MediaCenter on network clients has been fixed. DVBLink Server was not updated and their is no need to update it. DVBLink TVSource includes the following fixes and updates: Fix for FireDTV/FloppyDTV […]

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Backup WHS Itself via a Scheduled Task

If you plug in a USB hard drive to your Home Server to backup the WHS unit itself you will notice that there is no way to schedule the backup. Thankfully there is a set of instructions on how to get a "scheduled” backup using a key stroke macro which will run via the Windows […]

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The avast! WHS Edition Update

Avast have updated some of their Anti Virus products to version 5 but not avast! WHS Edition, so what’s happening? WeGotServed originally posted the answer and on further investigation we found the required info on the avast! Blog. The three products currently at version 5 are avast 5 Free AV, avast 5 Pro AV, and […]