How-To Geek has another Windows Home Server tutorial, and this one is on how to add an external hard drive to Home Server.
The post takes you step by step through the process which is ideal if you have never done it before or if you just need a refresher.
You can find it here.
The Feature Focus continues for the Advanced Admin Console add-in, and the latest focus is on Windows PowerShell.
The post takes you through installing PowerShell on Windows Home Server and launching the PowerShell command prompt from within the Advanced Admin Console UI.
You can read it here.
The Home Server Show website has a post by Jason Smith who shares his experiences of installing Sage TV on Windows Home Server.
Sage TV is a Java based DVR program similar to Windows Media Center and WHS is the ideal home for it as Home Server is usually on 24/7:
With SageTV running on your WHS, you are able to have everything running on one computer. SageTV runs as an Add-In and can be turned on and off via the WHS Console from any client machine on your network.
You can read Jason’s notes here.
If you would like to backup your Mac to a Windows Home Server take an external hard drive and TimeMachine and the article by Michael Swanberg and you should be good to go.
Well, OK. You may also need Automator, scheduled with cron and rsync for copying files but Michael takes you through the process which you can read about here plus Michael’s follow-up post on how to schedule the Automator jobs to run, unattended.
We have talked about the "Coming Home to Windows Home Server" series on website SVC (Sound & Video Contractor) before. And now on its 25th installment writer Eric Rux interviews Mark Pendergrast, the senior product manager for WHS about (amongst other things) his biggest surprise with Home Server.
You can read the interview here.
Microsoft’s Joel Burt has published a guide on how to sync a Windows Home Server, Zune and Windows Media Center.
Joel explains TV Archiving, creates a compressed copy for his Zune and adds some secret sauce by explaining how to get around HD content not being able to be compressed.
You can read the guide here.
The Digital Lifestyle.com have a post on why DVBLink is not just about network tuners, which explains why using the DVBLink software may be better than installing tunes cards directly into Windows Media Center.
Also of interest to those of you using the software, and installing the tuner cards directly into Windows Home Server is a topic on the DVBLogic forums on tuner cards which work (or not) on WHS. So head on over to check and let other Home Server users know what’s working and what’s not.
The annual Engadget Awards is underway for the best of 2009 products, and under the category of "Home Entertainment Device of the Year", one of the finalists is the HP MediaSmart Home Server which needs your votes.
The voting deadline is February 20th, so get nominating now!
Website How-To Geek has a great post on how to install and setup Windows Home Server.
The guide takes you through the Home Server installation process as well as the installation of the WHS Console on the individual computers, which you can read here.
"Xbox Live’s Major Nelson Radio" is a podcast direct from the Microsoft Xbox team and this week special guest Mark Pendergrast talks about Windows Home Server with host Larry Hryb (Major Nelson) about The new LaCie Home Server as well as what Home Server is.
The interview can be found approx. 24 minutes in and lasts approx. 11 minutes.
You can listen from here.
