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How to… Configure Remote Access in Windows Home Server

By on June 4, 2007 in Windows Home Server

Techrepublic has a couple of great “how to” guides for Windows Home Server, which I’ll add to the list of guides available here. The first focuses on configuring Windows Home Server to allow remote access to your network anywhere in the world (for me the coolest feature in WHS). The second deals with setting up [...]

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Hey, We Got a Mention on the Proper Blog

By on June 4, 2007 in Windows Home Server

Thanks cek. Now hit the sack! (If you jumped over here from the WHS Blog and it’s your first time – hi! Have a look around and let us know what you think. Hope we get to appear in your feeds list at some point!)

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Windows Home Server Session at TechEd 2007

By on June 3, 2007 in Windows Home Server

So, following on from WinHEC 2007, the next big Microsoft event is happening in Orlando, Florida next week. TechEd 2007 is primarily an enterprise IT-focused conference, at which people from your IT department get to press the flesh with a whole heap of MS Product Managers, and talk through specific learning areas of their products. [...]

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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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