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Transform Windows Home Server Vail Into a Windows Media Center, My Way

The title of this series is now “Transform Windows Home Server Vail Into a Windows Media Center”.  This is just one final post detailing the successful process from beginning to end in one article.

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Transform Windows Home Server Vail Into a Media Center, Part 7

This series has been titled “Transform Windows Home Server Vail Into a Media Center”.   A series has to end sometime and this is the end.  The question is, did I successfully transform Vail?

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Transform Windows Home Server Vail Into a Media Center, Part 6

If you check the WGS blog on any kind of a regular basis, I would assume you have taken a look at some of the earlier parts of this series.  We are getting down to the end and is there a solution in sight?

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Transform Windows Home Server Vail Into a Media Center, Part 5

Windows Home Server/Vail and Windows Media Center: time for an update.  I have one TV recording solution, and another in the wings.

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Build a Mini HTPC to Play Music, Video and Photos From Your Home Server

Owning a home server for backup, centralising your files and folders and remote access is one thing but life in the digital home really comes alive when you can stream music, video and photos around the home. There are a plethora of digital media receivers now on the market that make streaming media a snip, but for a really rich media experience, a HTPC (Home Theatre PC) is the way to go.

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Windows 7 SP1, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 to Beta in July

Whilst it’s an update roll-up for Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 gains a couple of feature enhancements in time for a public beta next month.

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Transform Windows Home Server Vail Into a Media Center, Part 4

Windows Home Server/Vail and Windows Media Center: time for an update.  I am not going to go into a lot of detail, as I just wanted to update you on where I am at.

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Transform Windows Home Server Vail Into a Media Center, Part 3

In Part 1 of turning your Vail machine into a media center, I took a look at installing VMware server in Vail and installing Windows 7 as a virtual guest OS.  In Part 2, I tried VMware workstation.   This time, I look at VirtualBox.

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Transform Windows Home Server Vail Into a Media Center, Part 2

In Part 1 of turning your Vail machine into a media center, I took a look at installing VMware server in Vail and installing Windows 7 as a virtual guest OS.  This time, I look at VMware workstation.

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Transform Windows Home Server Vail Into a Media Center, Part 1

This is going to be a journey of discovery.  A journey that will either get Vail and Windows Media Center running on the same machine or install an alternate to WMC.  Either way, I am going to make a PVR out of Vail.

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