If you would like to share and/or stream your music from Windows Home Server over the Internet then the Tranquil PC Weblog may have the answer for you.
Using the VPN software LogMeIn Hamachi² is a free simple solution and this post explains how to set it up and configure it.
The Channel 10 network has a great video of Microsoft’s Senior Product Manager of Windows Home Server Mark Pendergrast. The video “Show Us Your Tech – Mark Pendergrast Edition” takes a tour of Mark’s 1920’s house and the tech which he has within it.
Starting at the kitchen with the 40" LCD and the ROKU soundbridge radio, we are also shown the D-Link IP camera which is connected to the Windows Home Server in the back room area.
An expanded office in the basement is home for a Shuttle desktop pc and an Apple Time Capsule to backup the Mac machine.
Whilst in the media room is a 60" Pioneer Plasma which is connected to a Xbox 360 for media center viewing.
The back room is where all the wiring takes place which connects all the equipment together and off course the home for Windows Home Server, which in Mark’s case is the HP MediaSmart Server along with a couple of Netgear switches and a Silicondust HDHomeRun dual network based tuner.
If you watch the video till the end you will find out that Mark now has a safe which was found under the old stairs which was opened by a unknown contractor whilst they were out and which is now empty – Thank goodness they left the Home Server!
PCMag.com has a review of the Lenovo IdeaCentre D400 Home Server.
Reviewer Mario Morejon looks at the design of Lenovo’s good looking server hardware and tests the setup and performance of the unit as well as taking a look at its features.
The Lenovo IdeaCentre D400 is a basic implementation of WHS. The low power processor, however, might prove to be a double-edged sword for a home server. Backing up one or two laptops and copying files to the NAS might be okay, as the performance test shows. But managing multiple streaming connections can bring the Lenovo Home Server to a crawl. For small businesses that only need a NAS for backup and a file server, the Lenovo is more than adequate, and it will save you money on your electric bill. Power storage users look elsewhere.
You can read PCMag’s review here.
Time for a new Windows Home Server add-in for you.
TimeTraveler for WHS allows a WHS user to create roll-back points for changed files within any WHS Share. Directly using the WHS Console, a user can select to roll-back a file/folder/Share to any point in time.
If you’ve ever lost data by accidently overwriting a file with a new version of the file or simply realized that an older version of a file contained more pertinent information then Time Traveler is for you.
TimeTraveler for WHS is available for £19.25 ($29.99) and a trial version is also available with the only limitation that it only allows a maximum of 25 rollback points.
More details are available from here.
Google’s new Insight for Search beta provides insight into search patterns and provides some interesting results for "Windows Home Server".
What is most interesting is that Norway is the country which most searched for WHS information, followed by Sweden and the Netherlands. With the United States coming in a close 4th position.
Browse the info provided by Google here.
Power Pack 3 (PP3) has added a file called health.xml, which can be found at http://servername:55000/health/health.xml. This file stores information about both your server and connected computers including storage and share details.
If you have the Thomson TG585v7 router then note that it has a problem with the setup of the Remote Access feature of WHS. It plays nice with the UPnP protocol and WHS reports as having the router setup successfully, but it turns out that there is a problem with the (name).homeserver.com not being accessible, pointing instead to your router admin page.
But website seePyou has the solution, which you can find over here.
Windows Home Server came to the rescue (again) to Gregg Wonderly after a failed installation of Vista SP2.
Even after contacting Microsoft Support it was Windows Home Server which put his system back together again/
You can read about it here.
Website seePyou run through their adventures when installing the trial version of Windows Home Server.
They started with a video card where the VGA port didn’t work but luckily the DVI port did, and finished with a complete running system after installing the network drivers.
You can read about it here.
UK Based Tranquil PC have announced that all new Home Server’s will have the following FREE software pre-installed:
Tranquil PC have also stated that other free add ins will be launched during 2010.
