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How-To: Update your HP MediaSmart Server NIC drivers

If you’ve been thinking of upgrading the network drivers on your HP MediaSmart Server, our step by step guide will show you how.

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Add-In: WHS Outlook Beta 2

We’ve been running WHS Outlook since Beta 1 and we love it – it’s the add-in which integrates Microsoft’s email application with the Windows Home Server Console. Read on to find out just why we think it’s so good

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WGS Wiki Editors Needed

We Got Served is looking for a number of volunteer Wiki Editors to drive the future of the WGS WIki as a leading online help and tutorial resource for Windows Home Server and Windows Media Cente. If you’re passionate about these products and have some time on your hands, jump in and join the WGS Team!

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How-To: Install Firefly Media Server for Windows Home Server

Do you own an iPod, or use iTunes heavily? Do you want an easy way to access your server’s music on iTunes much the same way that HP MediaSmart Server users can? Well, HP used the Firefly Media Server in part to accomplish what they did. And we are going to show you how to install FireFly.

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Add-In: WHS Outlook Beta

A new add-in, WHS Outlook, allows you to run Outlook on your home server and monitor your email from any home computer via the Windows Home Server console. Find out how how to apply for access to the forthcoming private beta.

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A Guide to Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 Beta – Part 3

By now, you probably have Power Pack 1 Beta installed. I know I do. But what exactly are you supposed to do with it? What does the team want from you? Well, as ever they want your input. But first, we are going to go over how to gather that feedback and properly submit it to the Microsoft Connect site.

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A Guide to Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 Beta – Part 2

We are going to go over some of the options of how to test PP1 and how to backup your data Remember, you are supposed to break it, so bad things don’t happen when it is released!

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A Guide to Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 Beta – Part 1

If you’ve been an active part of the Windows Home Server community, I’m sure you’ve already heard about the upcoming Power Pack 1 Beta and are anxious to try it out! Among a list of things that have been fixed, tweaked and optimized is that nasty data corruption bug. But that isn’t just it. So first, lets go over exactly what has been improved in Power Pack 1 and see why people are so eager to test it out!

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Building Your Own Windows Home Server

A few weeks ago, one of the forum members (Etoa) messaged me that he had bought pretty much all the parts for the “Better Box” that I had put up on the WGS Wiki and wanted to know if I would like it if he took pictures as he assembled it and write up a page with instructions on how to assemble it too. Etoa didn’t use the exact configuration that I presented, but customized it his needs, which is exactly what I put up the pages for.

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How-To: Install phpMyAdmin on your Windows Home Server

So far, we’ve shown you how to install php on your webserver, and how to install a number of great software packages for your website. But what we haven’t done yet is show you how to easily manage your databases for your websites. Managing your database includes creating new databases, tables, entries. Or even deleting or editing them. phpMyAdmin gives a much nicer and easier to used interface for interacting with MySQL than a command line.

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