Author Archive for Philip Churchill

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Media Center Show Talks Windows Home Server

Episode 229 of The Media Center Show podcast has an interview with fellow MVP Andrew Edney about Windows Home Server, the latest hardware from HP and Lenovo, Power Pack 3 and Windows 7 including Andrew’s new book Windows 7 Tweaks, Tips and Tricks. You can give it a listen here.

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PC Pro Recommended – The EX490 MediaSmart

PC Pro has given the HP MediaSmart Server EX490 a recommended badge, giving it 5 out of 6 for it’s overall rating : So while the MediaSmart EX490 gets a definite thumbs up, we suggest you take stock of your needs – and the devices on your home network – before taking the plunge. For […]

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Take Full Advantage of WHS

What’s the easiest way to get your hands on a Windows Home Server? You can either buy a commercial model or build your own and lifehacker, the website that helps you get things done smarter and more efficiently takes us through both scenarios as well as showing us how to take full advantage of the […]

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WHS – The Dolls House Version

What would you expect to find in a Hello Kitty doll’s house? Perhaps an Acer H340 Windows Home Server (1) alongside a Windows 7 PC (2) and a printer (3)! I may be a married man in my 40s, but I now want a dolls house! (for the wife of course). Thanks to fellow MVP […]

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Radio Talk Show on Windows Home Server

The radio talk show "Computer Outlook" has Steven Leonard the Senior Product Manager on the Windows Home Server team and Jonas Svensson the Program Manager for Windows Home Server on the show chatting Windows Home Server. From an overview to different builds with lots of questions answered too, including on Windows 7 you can find […]

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Exclusive: D-Link D-ViewCam Add-In for WHS 1.0.0.

D-Links most popular home security cameras can now be managed and accessed within the Windows Home Server console. After a longer than usual install process (compared to other add-ins) the D-ViewCam add-in adds a D-Link IP Camera tab in the WHS console. Video and motion monitoring are recorded from D-Link security cameras directly to the […]

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30% Off PerfectDisk 10 Windows Home Server

For 3 days only you can get PerfectDisk 10 Windows Home Server for 30% off, and this applies to either the single pack which also includes a license for 1 connected PC too or the site license which also includes 10 licenses for other connected PCs. Single Pack includes 1 PerfectDisk Pro license to also […]

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The JukeBox MkII Home Build

Automated Home has a great home build article their calling the JukeBox MkII Comprising a 2.60GHz Intel Pentium Dual-Core E5300 on a ASUS P5Q Deluxe motherboard with 4GB of RAM and a Corsair 450W “80 Plus” PSU this build is impressive especially once you add the 8 SATA hard drives to the mix. Read it […]

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One Year On Would you Still Recommend WHS?

Website Paraesthesia asks the question “One year on is Windows Home Server all I thought it would be?” The post goes through the decent parts of WHS as well as the not so decent parts. The author of the post concludes the article by asking, would I still recommend a Windows Home Server? You can […]

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Win7 and Windows Home Server Won

Last week to coincide with the launch of Windows 7 we were offering a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate and a copy of Windows Home Server to one lucky person who sent us a tweet telling us the best thing they like about Windows 7 and WHS together as one. Yesterday we had a marvelous […]