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Do Something Good With Your Home Server – Install BOINC Now!

By on July 11, 2008 in Add-ins & Apps, How to Guides, Software, Windows Home Server, Windows Home Server v1

Do you run your WHS 24/7? If you do, you are probably wasting a whole bunch of CPU cycles and energy. So I installed BOINC to make use of those wasted CPU cycles.

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How To: Play DVD’s in Windows Media Center Stored On Your Windows Home Server

By on July 10, 2008 in How to Guides, Media Streaming, Software, Windows, Windows Home Server, Windows Home Server v1, Windows Media Center

Recently, I began ripping my DVD collection to my WHS Videos folder. My plan was to be able to view them from Vista Media Center.So I ripped/copied several of them over to my WHS, fired up VMC and became frustrated quickly because I could not find a way to point VMC over to my WHS folder. Grrrr!

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How To: Create a Slipstreamed, Unattended Windows Home Server Installation DVD

By on July 3, 2008 in How to Guides, Windows Home Server, Windows Home Server v1

Delving into the We Got Served Wiki again, we find a new How To guide, written by Gamer (a stalwart of the WGS forums) providing a full walkthrough on how to create your own slipstreamed Windows Home Server installation DVD or USB drive.

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How to: Rebuild and Expand Windows Home Server Storage

By on July 1, 2008 in How to Guides, Windows Home Server, Windows Home Server v1

If you want to know how to rebuild and expand Windows Home Server’s storage, Graham Jones from VANTUG has written this step by step guide to show you how!

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

By on June 11, 2008 in How to Guides, Windows Home Server, Windows Home Server v1

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

By on June 9, 2008 in How to Guides, Software, Windows Home Server, Windows Home Server v1

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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How-To: Install phpMyAdmin on your Windows Home Server

By on May 19, 2008 in How to Guides, Windows Home Server, Windows Home Server v1

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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How To: Install Forum Software phpBB 3 on Windows Home Server

By on May 8, 2008 in How to Guides, Windows Home Server, Windows Home Server v1

This week, we have shown you how to install your own blog on Windows Home Server, powered by Wordpress, as well as your own wiki, both of which you can do once you have installed PHP for IIS. Now we are going to to show you how to install your very own personal forum, so you can go and create your own Windows Home Server community that kicks We Got Served’s ass!

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How-To: Install MediaWiki on Windows Home Server

By on May 7, 2008 in How to Guides, Windows Home Server, Windows Home Server v1

A while ago, we showed you how to install PHP on your Home Server, and recently we showed you how to install WordPress on your server.  Now, we are going show you how to install MediaWiki onto your server for you very own Wiki pages.  MediaWiki is the software that powers sites like Wikipedia and [...]

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How-To: Install WordPress on Windows Home Server

By on May 6, 2008 in How to Guides, Windows Home Server, Windows Home Server v1

A while back, we showed you how to Install PHP on IIS on your Windows Home Server.  Thanks to feedback from the community, it has been cleaned up, cleared up, and refined – the section on how to install MySQL has been expanded to include details and brief descriptions.  What we didn’t show you in [...]

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