What’s the easiest way to get your hands on a Windows Home Server?
You can either buy a commercial model or build your own and lifehacker, the website that helps you get things done smarter and more efficiently takes us through both scenarios as well as showing us how to take full advantage of the available features including add-ins of Windows Home Server.
Read it here.
What would you expect to find in a Hello Kitty doll’s house?
Perhaps an Acer H340 Windows Home Server (1) alongside a Windows 7 PC (2) and a printer (3)!
I may be a married man in my 40s, but I now want a dolls house! (for the wife of course).
Thanks to fellow MVP Yoshihiro Okabe for the pics taken at the Windows Home Server booth at ITpro EXPO 2009 in Tokyo.
The radio talk show "Computer Outlook" has Steven Leonard the Senior Product Manager on the Windows Home Server team and Jonas Svensson the Program Manager for Windows Home Server on the show chatting Windows Home Server.
From an overview to different builds with lots of questions answered too, including on Windows 7 you can find the show under 10/25/09 Java with John.
D-Links most popular home security cameras can now be managed and accessed within the Windows Home Server console.
After a longer than usual install process (compared to other add-ins) the D-ViewCam add-in adds a D-Link IP Camera tab in the WHS console. Video and motion monitoring are recorded from D-Link security cameras directly to the server where users can configure the recording schedules and access recorded or streaming video from the home server using a web browser.
As well as this users can remotely access their IP surveillance system from any computer with Internet access.
As you can see four cameras can be viewed at once on a single screen.
At the current time the DCS-1100, DCS-1130, DCS-2121 and DCS-920 D-Link network camera models are compatible with the D-ViewCam add-in for Windows Home Server, although D-Link have stated that they are working on developing more D-Link devices which are WHS compatible
Steven Leonard, Microsoft Senior Product Manager for WHS had this to say:
We are pleased that D-Link is continuing to extend the value of Windows Home Server with the D-ViewCam Add-in, Windows Home Server provides a perfect platform for D-Link’s popular surveillance solutions, providing peace-of-mind for customers at home and in their business.
As well as the add-in D-Link are also providing a 65 page PDF User Manual which are all available from here.
For 3 days only you can get PerfectDisk 10 Windows Home Server for 30% off, and this applies to either the single pack which also includes a license for 1 connected PC too or the site license which also includes 10 licenses for other connected PCs.
Single Pack includes 1 PerfectDisk Pro license to also defrag 1 PC in your WHS environment Normally $ 49.99 NOW $34.99 Saving $15
Site License includes 10 PerfectDisk Pro licenses to also defrag every connected PC in your WHS environment Normally $ 99.99 NOW $69.99 Saving $30
Ssssh keep this 3-day secret sales event secret, it says – Or if it was it isn’t now! Just enter code PDSECRET30 at checkout, but hurry as it expires Thursday 29th October.
More details and to order are available here.
Automated Home has a great home build article their calling the JukeBox MkII
Comprising a 2.60GHz Intel Pentium Dual-Core E5300 on a ASUS P5Q Deluxe motherboard with 4GB of RAM and a Corsair 450W “80 Plus” PSU this build is impressive especially once you add the 8 SATA hard drives to the mix.
Read it here.
Website Paraesthesia asks the question “One year on is Windows Home Server all I thought it would be?”
The post goes through the decent parts of WHS as well as the not so decent parts. The author of the post concludes the article by asking, would I still recommend a Windows Home Server?
You can find the answer here.
Last week to coincide with the launch of Windows 7 we were offering a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate and a copy of Windows Home Server to one lucky person who sent us a tweet telling us the best thing they like about Windows 7 and WHS together as one.
Yesterday we had a marvelous piece of technology pick a winner (my wife picking a winner from a winter hat) and we would like to say congratulations to Brian Coats, the winner of both Windows 7 and a copy of Windows Home Server. We have been in contact with Brian and both pieces of software are in the post to him today – Well done!
With all the latest Windows Home Server news and views this weeks episode is also on Windows 7.
Catch show #61 here.
Another review of the MediaSmart EX495 from HP, this time courtesy of Gizmodo.
The review explains what the unit still does compared with the EX48x range and what it does even better.
Read it here.
