We Got Served

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 regular, automated [...]

Thanks cek. Now hit the sack!
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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. [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 be [...]

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.

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 copy [...]

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.
 

Since the [...]

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.

It’s looking pretty certain from this post that the first (and who knows, possibly only) Release Candidate for Windows Home Server will be released at some point next week!
Release Candidates are considered to have the potential for release, unless any major bugs appear.
Various websites are reporting on an email sent to beta testers stating that [...]

Betanews caught up with Windows Home Server Group Product Manager Joel Sider at WinHEC a couple of weeks ago – no major revelations, but you can read the interview at their website.