About Terry Walsh

Terry Walsh is the founding editor and owner of We Got Served. Since February 2007, the site has provided detailed coverage and analysis of the emerging home server category, and has subsequently grown into a trusted outlet for digital home news and reviews.
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Hands On: Iomega TV With Boxee

The Boxee ecosystem grows with the European-only Iomega TV with Boxee – the second media receiver to arrive packing Boxee’s media software. Join us as we take a look at what it can do.

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Windows Home Server 2011 Step By Step – Introduction

Welcome to Windows Home Server 2011 – Step by Step and for many of you, to the Windows Home Server platform itself. If you’re new to WHS, I hope this book will help you quickly discover how easy it is to install, configure and use Windows Home Server, and how useful its features are in both the home and small business environments. Whether you’re interested in streaming music, video and photos around your home and beyond, seeking an easy way to share files with friends and colleagues, or simply looking for an easy way to protect your PCs and Macs, you’ll learn that Windows Home Server can play an essential role at the heart of your network.

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WGS’ New eBook “Windows Home Server 2011 Step By Step” Is Now Available

Following the release in December of our popular Using OS X Lion Server at Home eBook, we were asked a question, “Why haven’t you done a guide to Windows Home Server”? We couldn’t think of a smart enough answer, so got to work writing one over Christmas…. and it’s ready for release! Authored by Microsoft Windows Home Server MVPs Terry Walsh and Jim Clark, Windows Home Server 2011 Step by Step is WGS’ comprehensive guide to Microsoft’s home server platform, covering hardware, software, add-ins, apps, tips, tricks, advice, support and a whole lot more.

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How to: Install Microsoft Forefront Client Security Antivirus on Windows Home Server 2011

I missed this back in October, but the Tinkertry site has an excellent walkthrough on installing Microsoft’s free Forefront Client Security Antivirus on Windows Home Server 2011. As you’ll know, Microsoft currently blocks the installation of their Security Essentials application on WHS, so Forefront Client Security is the next best thing.

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Home Server SMART 2012

Home Server Smart 2012 is a disk health reporting add-in for Windows Home Server 2011 and Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials. The add-in monitors your server’s hard disks at user-defined intervals for errors and issues, raising alerts and issuing email notifications when problems are detected.

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The $249 HP MicroServer & Windows Home Server 2011 Combo is Back

Grab it before it expires – especially if you missed it twice before.

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Get 20% Off Using OS X Lion Server at Home (This Weekend Only)

Our Using OS X Lion Server at Home series and eBook has been surprisingly popular – it seems that many WGS readers are planning, or have bought and are configuring Apple’s OS X Lion Server for use as a home server. With a paucity of information out there on working through Lion Server’s (sometimes quirky) configuration and setup, I hope the guide has been useful to everyone whose taken a look at it so far.

For those who haven’t checked it out, and are thinking about a switch then this weekend, we’re running a special 20% discount on all sales of the Using OS X Lion Server at Home eBook!

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CES 2012: Seagate GoFlex Satellite Wireless Mashes Mobile Storage With a 4G LTE Hotspot

Need a 4G hotspot? Need mobile storage? Don’t need to carry two devices? Then the Seagate GoFlex Satellite Wireless was designed for you.

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CES 2012: BabyPing Takes Baby Monitoring to the Network with Mobile Apps

Hot on the heels of the Samsung Wi-Fi Baby Monitor announced at CES this week, a new division of Y-Cam has just launched BabyPing – a wireless video baby monitor with mobile apps and a few tricks up its sleeve.

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CES 2012: Buffalo Joins in 820.11ac Speed Race With Forthcoming AirStation WZR-1750H

The standard is not yet finalised, but the networking vendors are already previewing their new 802.11 ac routers. Coming towards the end of the year will be Buffalo’s new AirStation WZR-1750H router and WLI-TX4-1300H Media Bridge.

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