Author Archive for Philip Churchill

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Hard Drive Dock

The Home Server Show Blog has posted details on a Sata HDD Multi-Function Dock and as Dave writes it makes a great hard drive dock. More details are available from here.

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Home Server Show Podcast Episode 3

Episode 3 of the Home Server Show Podcast is now available and Donavon West from Home Server Hacks is interviewed about his ShareMaster Vista Sidebar gadget and his 2GB Memory upgrade article amongst other things. Listen or download from here.

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Hot Stuff!

No it’s not a toaster (although it is). It’s a 55w Windows Home Server. Edgar Voorbraak built this with a 1.5GHz Via C7 CPU with 1GB of RAM and Edgar has even managed to cram in 4 hard drives. What is great is that the toast time knob controls the fan speed and the emergency […]

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SharePoint How-To Guide for WHS

The Ramblings of a Home Server User blog has just uploaded a new version of the SharePoint how-to guide for those who would like to test it out. Tom would also like the guide to be edited and updated if necessary. The guide and scripts are available from here.

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Diskeeper 2008 Home Server Edition Install Guide

Diskeeper 2008 Home Server Edition is the defragmentation tool made specially for our Windows Home Server’s. Site TechRepublic have a how to install it tutorial for those of you who are not sure how to go about it. Read it here.

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Add-In: AutoExit 2008

The add-in AutoExit 2008 for Windows Home Server version 2008 is now available for download. The add-in enables you to shut down and reboot machines in your home network from within the console. Wake On Lan is also supported which enables you to easily boot up your machines remotely. All these actions are available per […]

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Synchronize Files on a Remote Network with WHS

How would you like to synchronize files that are not located on your network with your Windows Home Server? In my case I use the online FolderShare service to “backup” my brothers photos and documents from his PC back to my WHS With the Foldershare software running on both the home server and on his […]

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Customize WHS with the Supplied OPK Disc

I wanted to bring to your attention, a tutorial that was written by runtime360 back in February on how to create a custom image of Windows Home Server using the supplied OPK disc. Doing so enables you to add additional drivers to your install DVD as well as adding your own customizations. Anyway here’s the […]

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Fixing Database Inconsistency Errors

Fixing Database Inconsistency errors is a great post by brubber in the Windows Home Server Forums. In his guide brubber explains how to recover from database inconsistency errors as well as how to fix the client backup database as well as how to fix the backup service not running. Read it here.

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Windows Home Server as a Subversion Server

Matthew Miller has written about running Windows Home Server as a Subversion Server which is an open-source version control developer tool which can run under Linux or Windows.So, if your into really techie stuff (not for the faint hearted), then head over to the details here.