Author Archive for Philip Churchill

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The Home Server Show Podcast Episode 63

This weeks episode of The Home Server Show podcast has a HTPC flavor to it. Speaking about HTPC, Media Center, My Movies and Media Browser as well as Windows Home Server, you can catch episode 63 here.

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Best Practices for Sharing Media on a Home Network

TwonkyMedia have put together a list of best practices for anyone wanting to share media over a home network. The list includes network-related tips, server & storage suggestions (including Windows Home Server), digital media adapter suggestions and media related tips which are handy for any Windows Home Server user. So head over here to have […]

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Five Great Add-Ins According to Lifehacker

Website lifehacker list Five Great Add-Ins to Power Up Your Windows Home Server Console. lifehacker list their favorites, which are: Windows Home Server Disk Management AutoExit for WindowsHomeServer Remote Notification LightsOut Grid Junction You can read more about them and also watch some short related videos here.

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Add-In: WHS PHP Installer 1.04

The add-in WHS PHP Installer has been updated to version 1.04 The add-in installs a preconfigured PHP 5.2.6 install which includes the PHP software to make it easy and convenient to install PHP onto Windows Home Server. This latest version includes a modified installer to install to c:\php5 and localized scripts missed in 1.03. and […]

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Update PerfectDisk for WHS the Proper Way

.NET developer Travis Illig is stating that a in-place upgrade for PerfectDisk doesn’t work for Windows Home Server: PerfectDisk has a feature to "check for updates" from within the Windows Home Server console. It’s OK to use the "check for updates" feature to see if there’s an update, but do not install the update from […]

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WHS-Download Manager 3.1

Version 3.1 of WHS-Download Manager is now available for download. The add-in helps organize large amounts of data and can download ULRs. The add-in can be configured to download a specified amount of data at a specified time and is optimized for use with Rapidshare, both free and premium accounts. Version 3.1 contains some bug […]

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Search MSWHS Within Windows 7 Explorer

Search in Windows 7 introduces Federated Search where you can search for items in remote locations right from within Windows Explorer. For example you can search a web site (like mswhs.com) directly from the Windows 7 search box, and to make that possible we have made a search connector for MSWHS.com which also adds MSWHS […]

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Team Foundation Server on WHS

If you would like to install Team Foundation Server (TFS) onto Windows Home Server you are in luck. TFS is a team collaboration server that provides work item tracking, source control, reporting, process guidance and more. Version 2010 Beta2 can be installed on WHS by using a remote desktop connection and website “Gaffer-Tape Engineering” takes […]

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What Home Servers Do the WHS Team Use?

The Windows Home Server Blog has a short video interview with Jonas Svensson, Community Program Manager on the WHS team who tells us what his role entails as well as telling us his favorite features in Windows Home Server as well details on his two WHS machines.

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The Home Server Show Podcast Episode 62

Show 62 of The Home Server Show podcast with some great chat on Windows Home Server as well as Windows 7. Get it here.