Category: News

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COBA User Group Discusses WHS – Bay Area, California

The Camera Owners of the Bay Area (COBA) user group September meeting will discuss Windows Home Server alongside video and photography convergence. Edward Casati of Unbound Photography has recently switched to using WHS as his main ‘bulk’ file storage system after outgrowing his ReadyNAS. He built his own with some extra hardware that he had […]

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Microsoft’s Official WHS Forum Updated

You may have noticed that over at the official Windows Home Server forums that the new forum platform is complete. This now provides increased performance, stability, and an improved user experience. The new link is now http://forums.community.microsoft.com/en-US/tag/windowshomeserver/, whilst the old URL (http://forums.microsoft.com/WindowsHomeServer/default.aspx?siteid=50) will be redirected to the new one once a topic is chosen. More […]

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WHS Officially Launches in Japan

Today’s the day that the Japanese version of Windows Home Server launches in Japan. At Akihabara, the heart of the consumer technology scene in Tokyo, Streaming21 and Microsoft will be unveiling Windows Home Server at a consumer launch press event. Companies to release Windows Home Server products for Japan include Streaming21, Dell, Epson, NEC, Mouse […]

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WHS Developer Guidelines Published

Microsoft have just released a document entitled Windows Home Server Developer Guidelines, which is a supplement to the Software Development Kit (SDK) for Windows Home Server. The 16 page .doc document provides guidelines for developers who are writing applications for Windows Home Server, following these guidelines will improve the user experience of your applications. The […]

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Windows Home Server Team Video

CJ Saretto, Mark Pendergrast and Brendan Grant from the Windows Home Server Team appear in a couple of videos over at Microsoft’s Channel 9 and Channel 10 communities where you can learn a bit about the next release of WHS, what devs will get to program against and also to meet some of the people […]

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Windows Home Server Saves Marriage

Take one copy of  Windows Home Server, a laptop and the latest version of the restore cd and after a creepy fast 11 minutes you have a restored computer and one restored marriage. Read the complete story here.

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The Home Server Show #15

In this weeks The Home Server Show #15 host David McCabe reviews a WHS training video from Train Signal and looks at a Power Pack 1 issue affecting some users. As well as the latest news, you can listen to this latest episode here.

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12 Hardware Company's Join Epson in Japan

The Applied WHS10000GV250. As well as the Epson we discussed yesterday, the following Japanese companies have announced that they will be shipping Home Server powered home servers or Windows Home Server related products in Japan: Epson NEC Mouse Computer Japan Logitec Thirdwave Unitcom Tsukumo PDX Japan Clevery Regin Applied Sofmap Sycom With the Japanese version […]

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New Add-In Resource

Windows Home Server forum user Jacques N is a recent convert to Windows Homer Server and got frustrated when trying to find all the available addins.  As such, he built a little website that lists all the available add-ins under different category’s along with their download links. http://whsaddins.com/

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Yet Another Windows Home Server Parts List

Another Windows Home Server parts list. This time self proclaimed geek and Microsoft Student Partner, Paul Jenkins shows us his single 1TB build list with power usage details, and all for $566. Here are the details.