Category: News

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German Power Pack 1 Available

Now available on the download section of Microsoft’s Connect website is the just released German version of Power Pack 1. Both the update package and full ISO’s of Power Pack 1 German edition are available for download.

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Ideas on How to Test Power Pack 1

To give you some ideas on how to test Power Pack 1 (PP1), the Windows Home Server Team is posting weekly Feature Focus documents on Microsoft’s Connect website. Posted last week was Feature Focus of the Week – PC Applications. And this week the second feature focus of the week, Backup and Restore was published […]

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Power Pack 1 – One Man's Experience

Gaen Smith posted the following in the Windows Home Server Forums – One man’s experience with Power Pack 1: I have had nothing but positive results with PP1!!!  I am running a homebuilt WHS with a Intel 3210SL Server Board, Dual Core Xeon Processor, 4 GB of DDR2 800 memory, 12 Seagate 500GB HD and […]

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Home Server Shipments to Rise from 1.2 Million to 90 Million in 2015

In a new market research study, senior analyst and author of the new report Ted Theocheung of the diffusion Group (Dallas) states that the home server is poised for significant growth. Below are highlights from the report: The big winners in this emerging product category being consumers and not PC companies. The Windows Home Server […]

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DisneyLand Innoventions Dream Home with WHS

The Innoventions Dream Home is the latest attraction in Tomorrowland at DisneyLand in California. The Dream Home is showcasing cutting edge technologies including Microsoft Surface, Windows Home Server and Windows Media Center. Built in collaboration between Disneyland, Microsoft, HP, Life|ware and home-builder Taylor Morrison the Innoventions Dream Home is both a show and a showcase, […]

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One Guy's Wooden Home Server

Part 2 of Building a Windows Home Server – Craftsman Style has just been published. After we detailed part 1 of this story the other day, this woodworker has built his Windows Home Server into a wooden cabinet, the craftsman style home server. You can read the full story here.

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Paul Thurrott and Leo Laporte talk Windows Home Server

In the Podcast Windows Weekly 63, hosts Paul Thurrott and Leo Laporte talk about Windows Home Server (amongst other things). Around 30 minutes into the program, the features available in Power Pack 1 (PP1) are discussed as well as Jungle Disk for Windows Home Server, an online storage solution powered by Amazon S3.    You […]

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Home Server Show Podcast – Episode 5

The Home Server Show Podcast is now at episode 5 and includes an interview with Alex Kuretz from MediaSmartServer.net along will the usual mix of news and announcements. Listen to it here.

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What's New in Windows Search 4.0

As we announced last week a copy of Windows Search 4.0 is available for Windows Home Server users. If you would like to know what is new, check out the following article at Maximum PC.

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One Man's eHome Vision

Software Architect Eric Charran had an eHome vision for his household. His goal was to access music, photos, videos, movies and TV shows (both live or recorded) from any TV or computer in the house and stop relying on physical media. For example, he no longer had to walk upstairs to get a DVD that […]