One of the “silent features” of Windows Home Server is the ability to give people access to your shared folders even though they aren’t even in your household. You don’t need to associate user accounts with computers, which means you can create as many users as you need in WHS and them assign them permissions […]
On the SuperSite for Windows back in January 2007 Todd Headrick, the WHS Product Planner told Paul Thurrott in his Windows Home Server Preview that Mac users could access the WHS shared folders as they would any other Windows share and that WHS would be a great back-end store for Time Machine. The name of […]
Out a couple of days later than expected is beta 3 of avast! WHS Edition. The first dedicated antivirus add-in for Windows home Server. This latest beta version 4.7.18, 10/16/2007 has: Yet another attempt to set the firewall exceptions correctly on all OS’s GUI improvements (WHS Console) Minor fixes Updates in the AV engine (new […]
Firefly is an open source media server software that enables you to stream music from the Roku Soundbridge and iTunes. Developer Nic Bedford has ported the current windows system tray application from Firefly into an add-in that can be run directly from the Windows Home Server console. Download: http://www.nicbedford.co.uk/files/InstallFireflyWHS.msi Copy the msi file to […]
The Microsoft Knowledge Base has been updated to include new article 943908, How to turn off the Backup feature in Windows Live OneCare. When a computer that is connected to the network is running Windows Home Server, it is recommend that you turn off the Backup feature in Windows Live OneCare and use the Backup […]
Windows Home Server for Dummies author Woody Leonhard is also the contributing editor to the email newsletter Windows Secrets. I have been a subscriber to this newsletter that describes its self as everything Microsoft forgot to mention for the last 2 years. It is available weekly for free, although they do a premium version as […]
Thanks to Terry Walsh from We Got Served for the details on the new HP demo. The 6 minute online demo contains audio and gives details on the HP MediaSmart Server and Windows Home server in general. To go to the demonstration from HP, click on the picture below.
It looks like DirecTV have been rolling out updates to it’s receivers. Charlie Kindel part of the Windows Home Server Team has posted over on the Windows Home Server Blog that when plugging his home network ethernet cable into the port on the back of his DirecTV HR-20 “HD DVR” set top box he noticed […]
All hard drives fail. It’s not a matter of if but of when. Since you are reading this, chances are computers are mission critical in your home. Windows Home Server (WHS) is the best solution for backing up the computers in your house. You can rest easier knowing that if a hard drive fails you […]
With the latest information about ATT, Comcast and Time Warner using or about to use data filtering, we thought it would be a good idea to collect some data from you. In our forums we have opened a thread regarding which ISP’s have Restrictions on using a Server at Home and/or are blocking ports. The […]
