Author Archive for Philip Churchill

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The Microsoft Home Server House

Microsoft have put more information on how to use Windows Home Server on their site. Entitled The Microsoft Home Server House, it can be got to from their WHS page below the “It’s all coming together” picture by clicking on “Experience a Connected Home” (will open in a separate window) or by going directly to […]

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Serious Bug for Add-In OnTheFlyUnzipper

It’s come to our attention that the add-in OnTheFlyUnzipper has a serious bug. If the add-in is uninstalled it will remove two Windows Home Server files with it. Good news though, the German Homeserver Blog says that the error was immediately corrected and a new version has been posted. For those of you with a […]

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Podcast – About Us!

I done a podcast today for the PerfectDisk Blog, which is a blog run by the people behind the defrag tool PerfectDisk 8 and is about everything you need to know about defragmentation. In the podcast I explain who I am, I go through some of the details of Windows Home Server and end with […]

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Readers to the Rescue

We started earlier in the week with a reader asking for advice and since then we have a few more questions from Windows Home Server enthusiasts, or a potential one at least. First up is Michiel who asks: What are the best settings for WHS “Power Options”?Is it possible to turn the hard disks off […]

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Stop False Password Nags from the WHS Client

If you have installed Windows Home Server and previously had RC1 installed, or another machine on your network had the same name you are now using for WHS, chances are you might run into the situation where the WHS connector software on the client machine is always telling you that you need to “Update Your […]

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Virtual SCALEO Home Server

For those of you that don’t know, Second Life is a 3-D online virtual world entirely created by its Residents. The infrastructure of user-built virtual worlds, is where people interact, play, trade and otherwise communicate. A virtual SCALEO Home Server from within the Green Island As of October 17th 2007 Fujitsu Siemens Computers has opened […]

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Podcast – Is Windows Home Server what the average home user should run out to get?

Popular software and game news site neowin.net have a weekly NeowinCAST podcast. There News Edition for October 18th 2007 includes a discussion on Windows Home Server and should the average home user run out to get it amongst other topics.The part on WHS is 32 minutes into the podcast and lasts for approximately 10 minutes […]

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Webcast on the Windows Home Server Toolkit

The Windows Home Server Toolkit technical overview is the title of another live web seminar being offered on Microsoft’s Partner Program web site. The Tool Kit is a collection of utilities that can help users diagnose Windows Home Server installation and operation related issues within their home networks. This webcast will give a technical overview […]

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Windows Home Server SDK

For those of you wishing to tinker and write add-ins for Windows Home server, then don’t forget the Windows Home Server Software Development Kit (SDK) in it’s final version is available to help you. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb743248.aspx

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avast! WHS Edition AntiVirus Updated to 2.1 Beta

The guys and girls at alwil software have been really busy.They have just updated their antivirus solution for Windows home Server to version 2.1 beta to include the following improvements: Finally sets the firewall exceptions correctly on all OS’s (i.e. communication with the WHS console should now work immediately, unless a 3rd party firewall product […]