MediaSmarthome.com has a great guide on protecting your HP MediaSmart Server and home network from viruses and malicious software. The 4 page guide shows you how to secure your wireless network, and tells us about firewall protection and antivirus software. File and folder permissions, user accounts and sharing folders and media are also discussed.
With the new PVConnect software available from HP for MediaSmart users, the Home server Show has a great guide showing you how to access the PVConnect settings from within a browser?
Available here.
If you own Windows Home Server (and if not, why not?) and a Playstation 3 then We Got Served has a great article on how to play media which is stored on the PS3 using the PVConnect / Twonky software.
You can read it here.
The Home Server Show, now at episode 11 is all about Power Pack 1 and make sure you listen to the end of the show to find out how to access Windows Home Server PVConnect for the HP MediaSmart Server via a web browser instead of the WHS Console.
Over at the Media Center focused TheDigitalLifestyle.com, the Media Center Show #166 speaks with HP’s Allan Buckner about the latest update for the MediaSmart Server’s. Also in the show running Windows Home Server in a virtual machine is also discussed.
Catch it here.
Website x(perts)64 also known as the unofficial x64 FAQ has a write up on the x64 capabilities of Power Pack 1. Author Charlie Russel has this to say:
I’m completely convinced – this is the single best ordinary user PC backup I’ve ever seen. And I’ve written dozens of chapters on backups in our various books, and used many, many different programs to do backups. None have been as easy, as space efficient, and as painless to restore with. I love it.
You can read the full article here.
The RTM version (1800) of the Windows Home Server Restore CD is now availalbe from Microsoft via the Download Center. The msi file weighing in at 226MB is available for download here.
Windows expert Paul Thurrott has showcased a series of Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 screen shots on his SuperSite for Windows. Paul has published 8 PP1 install screens and 14 from the PP1 backup process.
The Systweak Blog are doing a series of articles to show users that setting up and using WHS can be easy and, more important, that it can be used to simplify their digital lives by protecting their important files and making them available in a variety of different ways.
Their first article WINDOWS HOME SERVER: IS THIS THE SOLUTION TO YOUR PUZZLE? describes who needs Home Server and understanding it’s limitations.
The Windows Home Server Software Development Kit (SDK) has been updated for Power Pack 1, including new support for the client PC side (i.e. notifications to/from home computers).
Read it on MSDN here.
