Category: Tutorial

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Getting the SqueezeBox Working with WHS

Scott Miller has posted his experiences of getting the Logitech SqueezeBox working with Windows Home Server. Scott ran into a number of problems during setup and kindly document the steps he took to get it working. You can read them here.

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Microsoft Live Mesh and Why You Would Use It

On this site and others you may have seen reference to the Microsoft Live Mesh, and how although it is not officially supported, you can now use it to synchronize your Windows Home Server, (WHS), machine into your mesh. However, what might not be clear are the advantages of using this technology. Generally in most […]

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Backup WHS with MozyHome and Allway Sync

Website MT-Soft has details on how to use the online backup provider MozyHome with the software Allway Snyc to back up your important data on your Windows Home Server to the cloud via an external hard drive. You can read the full details here.

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Backup WHS to the Cloud Using Live Mesh

More Live Mesh tutorials, this one from The Home Server Show who explain to us how to backup to the cloud using Live Mesh on Windows Home Server and NTBackup which is part of WHS. Read it here.

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PP3 Icon Text Change

If you fancy having a tinkle with the Beta of Power Pack 3 (at your own risk!), then The Home Server Show website has a post especially for you. The post details how to change the text in the PP3 icons from one font to another by using a registry hack. From this    To […]

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Windows Live Mesh on WHS

Website Spackle have an article on how to install Windows Live Mesh on Windows Home Server. The guide details how to set Live Mesh up and what to do if the setup fails. Once complete Live Mesh should start synchronizing your WHS folders. All the details are available here.

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Windows Home Server Shortcut Maker

Jesseweb.com has a great article on how to add a Windows Home Server shortcut to My Computer which also includes the following right-click options Browse the home server shares Access the home server console Remotely computer manage the home server Remote desktop to the home server   And despite the official name of the app […]

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Media Stream Music from Windows Home Server

The Home Server Show website has details on how to install the Subsonic web based media streamer onto your MediaSmart Server. By following the tutorial you will be able to share your music with friends or listen to it whilst at work or even listen to it at multiple locations. The tutorial is here.

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Turning your Windows Home Server in to a Domain Server

I have just seen a really interesting post over at jesseweb.com that explains how to turn your Windows Home Server into a Domain Controller. This looks really good but there are a lot of unknowns with this such as how roaming profiles will work with this whether they will even work at all and will […]

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Time Machine backups from MAC to WHS

Brent Friedman developer of many add-ins including TV Manager and WHS Mobile has written a great tutorial on how to do Time Machine backups from the Mac to your Windows Home Server, just like the HP MediaSmart Servers do. Brent’s guide takes you through enabling the backups to shares, how to create a working sparsebundle […]