The Channel 10 network has a great video of Microsoft’s Senior Product Manager of Windows Home Server Mark Pendergrast. The video “Show Us Your Tech – Mark Pendergrast Edition” takes a tour of Mark’s 1920’s house and the tech which he has within it. Starting at the kitchen with the 40" LCD and the ROKU […]
PCMag.com has a review of the Lenovo IdeaCentre D400 Home Server. Reviewer Mario Morejon looks at the design of Lenovo’s good looking server hardware and tests the setup and performance of the unit as well as taking a look at its features. The Lenovo IdeaCentre D400 is a basic implementation of WHS. The low power […]
Google’s new Insight for Search beta provides insight into search patterns and provides some interesting results for "Windows Home Server". What is most interesting is that Norway is the country which most searched for WHS information, followed by Sweden and the Netherlands. With the United States coming in a close 4th position. Browse the info […]
Power Pack 3 (PP3) has added a file called health.xml, which can be found at http://servername:55000/health/health.xml. This file stores information about both your server and connected computers including storage and share details.
If you have the Thomson TG585v7 router then note that it has a problem with the setup of the Remote Access feature of WHS. It plays nice with the UPnP protocol and WHS reports as having the router setup successfully, but it turns out that there is a problem with the (name).homeserver.com not being accessible, […]
Windows Home Server came to the rescue (again) to Gregg Wonderly after a failed installation of Vista SP2. Even after contacting Microsoft Support it was Windows Home Server which put his system back together again/ You can read about it here.
Website seePyou run through their adventures when installing the trial version of Windows Home Server. They started with a video card where the VGA port didn’t work but luckily the DVI port did, and finished with a complete running system after installing the network drivers. You can read about it here.
UK Based Tranquil PC have announced that all new Home Server’s will have the following FREE software pre-installed: Home Server Power Pack 3 – PP3 is great for Media Center, Netbook and Windows 7 users. AVA Media CD ripping engine – AVA Media CD ripping engine (previously sold for £49,00) give you a simple way […]
Amazon have the HP LX195 for an amazing $199 saving you over $272, that’s an amazing 58% off. So if you are short of cash and after a Windows Home Server, head over to Amazon.
Computerworld from IDG have tested the HP MediaSmart EX495 Server, and said: (That it’s) the fastest network-attached storage box we’ve ever tested. The EX495 not only beat the EX487 but also the Synology DS209+ II network-attached storage box The EX495 was particularly fast during virus scans and at finding files thanks to the indexing feature […]
