PC Magazine has a great article on how to build a Home Server, using the ASUS T3-P5945GCX bare-bones kit. Just 30 minutes later; by following the advice, you’ll be sharing files the easy way in no time.
You can read it here.
The Microsoft Windows Home Server team have a survey for you to complete if you are a user or purchaser of Windows Home Server. The survey is available in either English or German and I would encourage you to complete it as it will give the team an insight on your thoughts on Home Server.
Australian Atomic magazine online has a great 5 part article on Windows Home Server remote access. From setting it up to accessing your Home Server via the net. You can find all the details here.
Version 2.4 of Windows Home Server Download Manager is now available for download. WHSDM is capable of organizing large amounts of data and can download ULRs. The program can also be configured to download a specified amount of data at a specified time and is also optimized for Rapidshare premium accounts.
More info is available from here. Thanks to the German Home Server Blog for the details.
The latest edition of The Home Server Show talks about various add-ins including MSS Fan Control, as well as the latest Windows Home Server news.
You can listen to it from here.
Windows expert Ed Bott is experimenting running Windows Home Server in a Hyper-V virtual machine running under Windows Server 2008, and interestingly Windows Home Server recognizes that the drives are virtual and thinks each one is 400GB in size. In reality, they’re dynamic virtual disks on a physical drive that is 500GB in size.
Read about it here.
Australian Photography has a concise review on the Windows Home Server which is available here by photographer Steadyhands, who concludes his review by stating:
I’m very impressed by the ease of use and features. It suits my current needs and has the ability to grow as my needs grow. You don’t have to be totally into computers to set one up so this is likely to work in WHS’s favour…
“Digital Photography & The HP MediaSmart Server – Limited by Your Imagination, Not the Size of Your Shoebox” is the title of 2 free live webcasts from HP and Microsoft on using the MediaSmart Server, this time for digital photography.
This event will show you why the HP MediaSmart Server is the perfect solution for Digital Photographers:
Presented by HP’s Jeff Kraft with leading digital photography guests, Reed Hoffmann, a pioneer in digital imaging, as well as Debbie Grossman and Philip Ryan, senior editors from Popular Photography Magazine. The experts will recommend workflow and demo photo-focused features of the MediaSmart Server on July 17 and July 22 2008.
You can register for both events here.
Donavon West from Home Server Hacks decided that his MediaSmart Server looked a little boring, when comparing it to these DIY rigs, so he decided to spruce it up with a fresh coat of paint. A day later after using a can of racing red Krylon, this was his result.
Please note that the original article also contains pictures of the MediaSmart Server in a naked state! 
Version 3.0.0.0.0 beta of LogPoint the Performance Monitor for WHS has been released which has been completely rewritten and graph’s in real-time.
New Features:
1) Improved graphic display (now using real-time graphing) using Infragistics Graphing component.
2) Ability to monitor other devices on the WHS network
3) Performance graphing of the following WMI performance namespaces:
a) Processor
b) Memory
c) System
d) Logical Disks
e) Physical Disks
f) TCP IP
g) Processes (ability to monitor an individual process)
h) More to follow – can be added easily.
Each of the above is broken down into a number of sub-selectable monitors, which in some cases is dependent on the number of devices you have in the machine being monitored.
4) Ability to output graph to JPEG file.
5) View the real-time raw data gathered as the system monitors (can then be exported to excel).
6) English Descriptions of both the monitor and the individual components.
7) Interactive configurations, including the ability to direct messages and warnings to the WHS notifications queue.
NOTE: You will need to have the Microsoft .Net Framework 3.5 installed for this add-in to work.
More information and support is available from here.
