We bought to your attention the other day that the vulnerabilities detailed in the MS08-001 security bulletin also affect Windows Home Server. The security bulletin which was first issued on January 8th was revised on January 25th when Microsoft announced that Windows Small Business Server and Windows Home Server was also at risk, neither of […]
Bob Muglia is the Senior Vice President of our Server and Tools division at Microsoft during the day and is an IT pro at night. Why? Well he needs to be when he runs 9 servers at home! Bob chats about Windows Server 2008 and Windows Home Server. The video can be viewed at the […]
VIA ARTiGO Pico-ITX Builder Kit provides the starter hardware for a fully functional PC that’s small enough to fit in a desktop PC’s 5.25-inch drive bay. Based on Via’s Pico-ITX motherboard form factor, the motherboard is just slightly larger than a credit card and uses Via’s VX700 chip set and UniChrome Pro II graphics chip. […]
The Windows Home Server Disk Management add-in which we discussed here has been updated to version 1.0.3. for those of you not in the know, this add-in is an extension of the server storage interface, making it easier to identify the hard drives via a visual display. Seeing which drive is the system drive and […]
The add-in TiVo Publisher for WHS makes your music, photos, and videos shares on the Home Server browsable from any TiVo that supports home networking. Updated version 1.21 is available which has fixed some bugs including a uninstall problem as well as correcting a problem with pressing “Play” on an artist folder and the “Flatten […]
You may notice an update for your Home Server if it has not been automatically downloaded and installed by Microsoft update. It regards a Windows Kernel TCP/IP vulnerability, which could allow remote code to be executed on supported editions of Windows Small Business Server 2003 and Windows Home Server. More details are available in Microsoft […]
There’s a lot of chat at the moment (here and here) on how Windows Media Center users and those with Windows Home Server integrate both in their home setups. Their is currently no easy way of combining the best of both products unless you have the time available to do so. Now things have got […]
If one of your client computers is an XP machine then there is a newer version of the Remote Desktop Client which is used if you want to remote desktop into the Home Server machine. It has been available as an Optional Software Update at the Windows Update site but for those of you that […]
When moving files to your Home Server Shared Folders you may find that Windows Explorer can be a little slow when copying or moving files or folders. That’s why in the past we have recommended a third party tool that speeds up the process over Windows. Another program is freeware TeraCopy which does the same […]
Developer Brendan Grant has a new add-in for us. Tab Manager displays a vertical list of all installed add-ins within Windows Home Server which saves you having a cluttered tab tool bar full of lots of add-ins. More info and the download are available from here.
