If you like the idea of a stay at home server incorporating Microsoft’s Windows Home Server operating system, up until this point have really only had 2 choices so far. They could build their own,or they could buy one of the HP MediaSmart models. But fresh to the market is Acer with their Aspire easyStore […]
The add-in which enables you to get more control from your UPnP internet gateway has been updated. Version 1.1b provides the following Improvements: added feature test for hijacking detection to diagnostic tool last traffic graph scaling is now being stored added handling for state variables returning anything despite the allowed values hijacking detection is now […]
WHS Port Forward is a new add-in by Alex Kuretz which allows the user to utilize the UPnP feature of Windows Home Server to open forwarded ports from their router to their Home Server As Alex stats: “This is useful if you have installed a 3rd party application that requires incoming access from the internet.” […]
Tech Ready is a semi-annual internal technical conference for Microsoft employees and at Tech Ready 9 was Michael Gannotti who chatted with Vick from the Windows Home Server Team about WHS and PP3 in this great 8 minute video.
The Home Server Show podcast episode 51 is all about Live Mesh on Windows Home Server as well as the latest news and views. Details of a new add-in called WHS Port Forward are also debuted. Catch episode 51 here.
Small Business Server (SBS) specialist Sean Daniel has a great post on his blog about how Windows Home Server saves an exam, where a lady by the name of Janet lost her exam work when her home PC refused to boot. You can read the full story here. As Sean states: “I remember when losing […]
Website Boing Boing Gadgets (we love that name!) has a review – "A day with HP’s MediaSmart LX195", which has a small list of the pros and cons of the Intel Atom powered Home Server, which may be useful to would be buyers. Read it here.
A couple of weeks ago we told you that website "The Digital Media Zone" had posted a video looking at the features of Power Pack 3. As a follow up co-host Adam Thursby has now posted a review of PP3 with the good news – And the bad. You can catch it here.
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.
The Media Center Show podcast this week amongst other things chats to fellow MVP Andrew Edney about Power Pack 3, TV Archiving and where next for Windows Home Server. The podcast is available from here.
