A couple of articles from around the web. First we have The Grouchy Gamer with his Adventures With Windows Home Server. Next author Ramon Pailla was flipping through the tech ads in the Sunday paper when she came across an ad for Windows Home Server. She asks is User friendly work style – good for […]
If like me you have been a bit confused in the past about SageTV for Windows Home Server then the post Totally Confused Concerning SageTV for Windows Home Server(WHS) – Please Help! on their forums may be of help to you.
An add-in for those of us that like saving power (which we should all be). PowerSwitch ads a tab in the settings dialog which enables you to set a power down state to wake up and to sleep your home server and which method to use, either shutdown or hibernate if supported. More info is […]
Terry Walsh from WeGotServed talks about the data corruption bug that has hit Windows Home Server and points out how to avoid it over on The Media Center Show Podcast. Available here.
The defragmentation tool PerfectDisk 2008 has been updated to build 43. The following features and fixes are for all versions of PerfectDisk 2008. eg Professional, Server, WHS etc: New Features Improved defragmentation speed. Added ability to work in lower screen resolutions, such as 800×600 or 1024×768. Added print statistics functionality. Updated help files. Added ability […]
Deploying the FREE windows utility PDFCreator on Windows Home Server will enable you to Print to PDF and save paper. The confessions of a freeware junkie blog has the details on how to set it up. http://maximillianx.blogspot.com/2008/02/network-admin-tip-create-shared-pdf.html
ComputerWorld writer Gregg Keizer has been speaking to the WHS team about the corruption bug. Todd Headrick, the product planning manager for WHS had this to say in the article: In many cases, users might not realize that they are, in fact, “editing” a file, because an application may be appending metadata to a file’s […]
A book which is currently available but is not specifically just for Windows Home Server users is the Big Book of Windows Hacks by Preston Gralla which gives you everything you need to get the most out of your Windows Vista or XP system, including its related applications and the hardware it runs or connects […]
Mary Jo Foley has some interesting info on her blog that the next major version of Windows Home Server will be codenamed “Vail” and will also include more entertainment “capabilities”, whatever that means? http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1217
What was going on this week at mswhs.com? Here’s your chance to catch-up if you missed something! New Add-In will Integrate MCE and WHS Microsoft employee Steve Lindsay passion in his spare time is Media Center and Home Server, so it makes sense that Steve is about to go into beta with a MCE Home […]
