If you would like to see more of Power Pack 3 in action, then 2 videos are available which go through the Windows Media Center add-in in more detail. The first is from Ian Dixon from The Media Center Show and the second from Adam Thursby of The Digital Media Zone.
Online backup providers Mozy ask the question "How Much Is A Petabyte?" Luckily for us they came up with the following image, with a series of stats visualizing the Petabyte age. 13.3 years of HD-TV video! Wow, I need a new hard drive. Thanks to Mozy for the original post.
As we are aware Microsoft has just announced the beta for Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 (PP3), and here we shall see what’s new. PP3 improves the Windows Home Server experience with Windows 7 and Windows Media Center by providing the following new features: Backup and restore of computers running Windows 7 Windows 7 […]
Microsoft has just announced the beta for Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 (PP3) and would like your help in testing it. If you are currently using Windows Home Server (and if not, why not!) and running Windows 7 on your home computer then all you need to do is sign up for the beta […]
Episode 49 of The Home Server Show podcast is available, which this week talks about whether or not you should run Antivirus software on your Home Server machine. As well as an in depth review of Avast for Windows Home Server, the latest news and views as always are there too. You can catch this […]
Well done to Microsoft’s Aaron Liao and the rest of the team who between July 13 – 16 demonstrated and talked Windows Home Server from their stand to the masses who passed by at this years WPC2009, a partner conference held in New Orleans in the US. Thanks to Susan Bradley for the pics.
Due to the T3N system being more popular than expected Tranquil PC have put together a starter pack for £177 to encourage MSWHS readers et al, to BYO (Build Your Own) low energy, low noise Home Server. The starter pack includes 2GB of RAM and a quiet ‘n’ cool 500GB WD Green Power HDD. All […]
Ok then guys just heads up been reading a post here that Symantec backup products such as Ghost seems to cause major headaches because of the services it installs on the server called “Volume Snapshot Service”. Now all I know is that it stops WHS having the ability to backup up, the post doesn’t mention […]
Windows Home Server MVP Sam Wood has some information for developers regarding LineBox, which is used by Microsoft to group configuration sections in the Settings dialog box. LineBox also provides developers with a UI element that compliments the rest of Windows Home Server. All the info is here.
Microsoft has released a Microsoft security advisory and a workaround for a vulnerability in the Microsoft Video ActiveX control which could allow remote code execution. The vulnerability effects Windows Server 2003 editions which Windows Home Server is based on thus, it could be infected. Although this affects Internet Explorer (IE), some WHS add-ins enable the […]
