Home Server Hacks has a great 5 part series on Building a Green Windows Home Server for just over $400. As writer Donavon West writes: Over 5 parts, this article will show you how to use the Shuttle KPC as a platform to build a full featured, low cost, environmentally friendly (i.e. green) Microsoft Windows […]
German and French versions of the defrag tool, PerfectDisk 2008 for Windows Home Server are now available. Click on FR (French) or DE (Germany) in the upper-right hand corner of the Raxco Software website to obtain information and the products in the respective languages. More info in German, French and English.
Courtesy of newegg.com you can get the HP MediaSmart Server EX470 at the reduced price of $539.99 including free 3 business day shipping, saving $20 over their original selling price. Also included in that price is a free wireless router (not displayed on the checkout page and offer ends 30 April) and a Western Digital […]
Home Servers In The Digital Age is a new 14 page PDF document by J.P. Gownder and Forester Research and is full of amazing facts and figures like: Home Servers will fill a critical need in the digital home Home Servers will enter 4.6 million households by 2012 Early Adopters Will Be Found Among The […]
If you are moving your music collection onto your Windows Home Server then their are a couple of batch scripts available that can help you reload the library in read only mode when using Media Server on Home Server. More info is available in this thread.
A beta of a security suite specifically for Windows Home Server users is available from F-Secure. Home Server Security beta protects Windows Home Server against all kinds of malicious content, such as viruses, worms, Trojans, spyware and riskware. Installation, configuration and management is performed through the Windows Home Server Console and notifications are sent […]
Add-In WHS Disk Management has been updated to version 1.0.7.2 which includes the following: Changed: You can now copy/paste a single line from Disk Details window Fixed: Resolved erroneous white border around main window form elements after closing Settings Fixed: Rebuilt MSI package using latest WiX/Votive to prevent Vista from marking the installer as invalid […]
We Got Served talk to the guys behind HP’s MediaSmart Server and gets answers to some regularly asked questions like what are the Top 3 support call issues?, why did HP disable Shadow Copies on the MediaSmart Servers? and what can you tell us about the next version of the HP MediaSmart Server? These and […]
“Windows Home Server – Just Build It” is the name of an article on the website Gear Diary. Rob Tripp tells us why he built his own Windows Home Server instead of purchasing a HP’s MediaSmart. One of his final thoughts is “Wow, that was easy…too easy…what did I mess up?” Read his article here.
Retailer and system builder PCAlchemy who produce products for the digital home have just announced the Avideus HSE Home Server, their first product designed for Windows Home Server based on the Intel SS4200-EHW Server design. While other companies may be building Windows Home Server products based on the Intel SS4200-EHW design, Avideus believes the HSE […]
