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How to: Install Windows Server Update Services on Windows Home Server 2011 (Part 3)

By on December 17, 2011 in How to Guides, News, Windows, Windows Home Server

In the first part of this How To guide, we installed Windows Server Update Services on Windows Home Server 2011. Then in the second part, we set up our network computers to work with WSUS. With those two steps done, you can configure WSUS to support update delivery on your network computers.

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How to: Install Windows Server Update Services on Windows Home Server 2011 (Part 2)

By on December 17, 2011 in How to Guides, News, Windows, Windows Home Server 2011

In the first part of this How To guide, we installed Windows Server Update Services on Windows Home Server 2011. Now it’s time to configure our network computers to work with WSUS. From there, in the final part of the series, we’ll complete our WSUS configuration on the server.

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How to: Install Windows Server Update Services on Windows Home Server 2011 (Part 1)

By on December 15, 2011 in How to Guides, News, Windows, Windows Home Server 2011

Are you responsible for the administration of your family’s computer systems? Would you like to push Microsoft’s OS updates to your home computers and reboot them automatically from a central location (like your home server?) If you answered yes to these questions, WSUS (Windows Server Update Services) may be the answer.

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How To: Manage Windows Home Server 2011 From Any PC With Remote Desktop

By on October 29, 2011 in How to Guides, News, Windows, Windows Home Server, Windows Home Server 2011

Ever wish you could sign onto your server’s desktop from your workstation or laptop? You can with Remote Desktop Connection (RDC). RDC has been around for sometime, but has been primarily used by systems administrators to access their servers from their desk and avoid the long trip to the server room.

Now that servers are showing up in the home, it’s time to learn what system administrators have known for some time. You don’t need a monitor for every server and it’s easy!

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How To: Change Client PC Backup Scheduling With Windows Home Server 2011

By on October 27, 2011 in How to Guides, News, Windows, Windows Home Server, Windows Home Server 2011

Today’s guide is a brief look at configuring client PC backups in Windows Home Server 2011.

Once you have Windows Home Server installed, and protecting your PCs you can change its configuration to run client backups on a schedule you define.

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How to: Install Windows Server 2008 R2 On Your Headless Windows Home Server Hardware

By on June 16, 2011 in How to Guides, News, Windows, Windows Home Server

Time for a bit of forum focus. This week one of our forum members, mimoid (Thomas), posted a great guide to installing Windows Server 2008 R2 on headless home server hardware, such as the HP MediaSmart Server, HP Data Vault or Acer Aspire easyStore Home Server. As these products do not have monitor, mouse or keyboard connectors, installing operating systems can be a challenge. Fortunately, guides like this one make life a lot easier.

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How to: Create a Mac Mini Media Center (Part 8 – Install and Configure Media Center Master)

By on December 2, 2010 in How to Guides, Media Streaming, News, Windows, Windows Media Center

If you’re yet to discover the world of metadata, you’ll be surprised how rich you can make your Media Center experience courtesy of TV & Movie artwork, backdrops, episode guides, viewer ratings, cast and crew information and more. But how do you get all of this info, and do you have to spend hours collating it all? Nope. It’s easier than you think!

Part 8 of our Mac Mini Media Center guide shows you how.

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How to: Create a Mac Mini Media Center (Part 7 – Set Up Media Center)

By on November 4, 2010 in How to Guides, Media Streaming, News, Windows, Windows Media Center

We’re very close to finishing our Mac Mini Media Center project, and its time to open up Windows Media Center itself and get it configured for watching Live and Recorded TV, Videos, Photos, Music and a whole lot more.

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How to: Create a Mac Mini Media Center (Part 6 – Connect and Configure the TV Tuners)

By on November 3, 2010 in How to Guides, Media Streaming, News, Windows, Windows Media Center

Our Mac Mini Media Center series continues as we connect up Silicon Dust’s HDHomeRun Network Tuner, which allows simultaneous recording of two TV programmes, and places your antenna feed on the network, accessible by any PC, Mac or compatible device.

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How to: Create a Mac Mini Media Center (Part 5 – Installing and Configuring the Media Center Remote Control)

By on November 2, 2010 in How to Guides, Media Streaming, News, Windows, Windows Media Center

As our Mac Mini is going to be positioned in the lounge, powering the content viewed on the large screen TV, trying to control it with mouse and keyboard would not be the most fun. Windows Media Center is best controlled with a Media Center remote and that’s the subject of the next part of our how to series.

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