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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How to… in Windows Home Server

By on June 3, 2007 in Windows Home Server

As part of the general re-organisation of the blog, I’ve set up a separate page called WHS How to… which gives a list of links to the various step by step guides I’ve written so far for Windows Home Server – everything from choosing hardware, through building your machine, installing, configuring and using the system. [...]

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Under the Hood: Windows Home Server Backup

By on June 3, 2007 in Under the Hood, Windows Home Server

So, by now, if you’re one of the 70,000 or so people testing Windows Home Server, you’ll be regularly backing up your home computers each night, and by and large, you’ll have seen that it’s a pretty seamless experience – once your home server has checked out what computers you have on your network, it [...]

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Windows Home Server RC1 – “We’re working hard to get it to you”

By on June 3, 2007 in Windows Home Server

Things are getting a little restless at the MS Windows Home Server Forums, as the community waits for the release of RC1. One user writes: “Where the hell is RC1, ive been waiting all week for it to be released, obsessively checking this site for its presence. Well it doesnt look like its going to [...]

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Blog Upgrade and New Theme

By on June 2, 2007 in Windows Home Server

Well, given that there was no RC release this week, I decided to spend this morning upgrading the blog to WordPress 2.2 and install a nice new theme with a nod and a wink to the WHS UI, I’m much happier with it.

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Recorded TV Manager 2 Backs Up Recorded TV to Windows Home Server

By on June 2, 2007 in Software, Windows Home Server, Windows Media Center

One of the new “features” that came with the Windows Home Server CTP was the exclusion of TV Recordings from the backup of a Media Center PC. Recorded TV Manager 2 solves this problem by allowing you to set up a number of rules (similar to Windows Mail) on your Media Center machine to automatically [...]

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Has Code2Fame Taken WHS Add-In Development Underground?

By on June 1, 2007 in Add-ins & Apps, Windows Home Server

In the week’s preceding WinHEC 2007, a slew of Add-Ins were released on the Microsoft forums from community developers passionate about extending Windows Home Server to create new functionality for the platform. Then, at WinHEC 2007, Bill Gates announced Code2Fame - a competition for developers to submit their best WHS add-ins for a $10,000 prize pot.   [...]

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Getting Windows Home Server Ship Shape

By on May 31, 2007 in Software, Windows Home Server

So with the Release Candidate of Windows Home Server due this week, and subsequently the final version hitting RTM before long, I would imagine that life is pretty busy over at Redmond right now in the WHS corridors. But what goes into getting a product ready to ship? Find out here.

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Get Ready For Windows Home Server RC1!

By on May 26, 2007 in Windows Home Server

It’s looking pretty certain from this post that the first (and who knows, possibly only) Release Candidate for Windows Home Server will be released at some point next week! Release Candidates are considered to have the potential for release, unless any major bugs appear. Various websites are reporting on an email sent to beta testers [...]

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Betanews Interview with Windows Home Server’s Joel Sider

By on May 26, 2007 in Windows Home Server

Betanews caught up with Windows Home Server Group Product Manager Joel Sider at WinHEC a couple of weeks ago – no major revelations, but you can read the interview at their website.

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HP Windows Home Server Advert With (Probably Not) Bill Gates

By on May 26, 2007 in Windows Home Server

I came across this video on the web yesterday evening – it’s alledgedly a HP commercial for Windows Home Server, featuring the hands of a well-known Chief Software Architect and the HP MediaSmart Server. Video: Microsoft Home Server HP Commercial I’ll let you decide whether this is genuine or not….

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