Over at TechRepublic, Steven Warren has written how to use Windows Home Server if you can’t afford the hardware by running it in the virtualization software VMWare Workstation. Steven takes you through the configuration and installation with lots of screen shots to help you on your way. Read it here.
If you would like to set up an email server on your Windows Home Server which also gives you the ability to use your Microsoft given WHS hostname as your email address (yourname@xxxx.homeserver.com), then we can lead to to a guide. Joe DiFiglia lists all the steps necessary using the FREE version of the […]
Developer Brendan Grant has written an article highlighting that some users are using Windows Home Server for longer term archiving. e.g.to safeguard the last state of a PC before it is scrapped. Brendan states while this is an option, there are a few areas that should be considered before relying on Windows Home Server for […]
If your Windows Home Server is not made by HP then you have the boring plain "Shared Folders on Server" icon on the desktop. But how would you like to change it to the one that HP MediaSmart Server owners have, a picture of the MediaSmart Server itself. If you do, then your in luck […]
Apart from the numerous tutorials already out there for Windows Home Server users, Wandy sae-tan has added a couple more. The first is How to install PHP 5 and MySQL6 on IIS 6 Windows Home Server and the second is How to install WordPress on IIS 6 Windows Home Server.
If you would like to change the name of your HP MediaSmart Server from “HPMediaSmart” to something more appropriate like Gladys or Gertrude (or perhaps not!), then MediaSmartHome has a great tutorial on how to do so, available from here.
Tom Ziegmann has an update for those of you who have followed his guide on how to install SharePoint Services 3.0 on Windows Home Server. He has now published a tip on how to change his SharePoint Database Move Scripts if your server name is not "SERVER" which is available here. The SharePoint How-to in […]
OK, you have a HP MediaSmart Server and you wish to have your own domain name like ILoveMyWindowsHomeServer.com or WHSIsCool.com (you get the picture!). Then MediaSmartHome.com has a great tutorial on what you need to do by showing you how to register a domain name with TZO.COM via the WHS console. You can read it […]
Back in May we published a tutorial on how to synchronize files that are not located on your network using Windows Home Server and Microsoft’s Windows Live Foldershare software. Peter one of our forum users has kindly published an update to the tutorial that supports the changes introduced in the newer version of Foldershare, which […]
Troubleshooting Remote Access for your MediaSmart or Windows Home Server is a guide available from MediaSmartHome.com. The tutorial details what to do when your server ports are blocked by your ISP and how to overcome this problem. The guide is available here.
