Donavon West from Home Server Hacks decided that his MediaSmart Server looked a little boring, when comparing it to these DIY rigs, so he decided to spruce it up with a fresh coat of paint. A day later after using a can of racing red Krylon, this was his result. Please note that the […]
Version 3.0.0.0.0 beta of LogPoint the Performance Monitor for WHS has been released which has been completely rewritten and graph’s in real-time. New Features: 1) Improved graphic display (now using real-time graphing) using Infragistics Graphing component. 2) Ability to monitor other devices on the WHS network 3) Performance graphing of the following WMI performance […]
Home Server Hacks are already on part 3 of their new series of Q&A called Ask the Home Server Guy. Fellow MVP Donavon West has the daunting tasks of answering your Windows Home Server related questions with detailed explanations and pictures too (I like that part!). From the HP EX470, iTunes and Macs to the […]
Beta 3 of BitDefender Total Security 2009 has just become available, the security package add-in for Windows Home Server. New in Beta 3: Online backup for Windows x64 systems Vulnerability scanning Wizard to create new antimalware scan tasks from basic view History events for several modules IM Antiphishing not implemented Known issues: Pppoe connections and […]
Windows expert Ed Bott writes about special-purpose consumer devices on ZDNet: Windows Media Center is mature and extremely well supported. It wouldn’t be that difficult to port the Media Center code to a next-generation operating system that could then form the basis for cool, quiet PCs that could form the hub of a household digital […]
Would you like to know how Windows Home Server compares to Microsoft Small Business Server and why Home Server is also great for home based businesses with small networks? Then head over to smallbiztechnology.com where Joel Sider, senior product manager of the Windows Home Server team at Microsoft is interviewed.
Beta 3 of the add-in TV Manager is now available. Designed for both WHS and Media Center, it copies your recordings off to your WHS for storage and management. It comes in two parts. Part one, is installed on the server for management of the Recordings. Part two, is the Media Center (Vista only) plug-in […]
Chris Gray, lead developer for Windows Home Server has published a brief description of the balancing algorithms used for disk balancing in Home Servers PP1 Drive Extender. For the geek’s amongst us Chris takes us through auto-migration, duplication and balancing. All the details.
After installing Power Pack 1 (PP1) on the HP MediaSmart Server you may notice that you can no longer get the HP updates. Hewlett Packard are releasing a new version of their update once the final version of PP1 is released. In the meantime one way of still getting the updates is to browse the […]
Daves Computer Tips Newsletter has a great article on how backups work on Windows Home Server and what makes the WHS backup so special. Dave also shows us how to duplicate the computer backup files by using a registry hack on the Home Server and how to remove the caution screen when logging on to […]
