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Microsoft Publish Windows Home Server Development Guidelines

As part of an ongoing push to engage more developers to support the Windows Home Server platform, Microsoft today published a 17 page document acting as a guideline for the creation and integration of add-ins for the operating system.

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Microsoft Loves The Green Button

You can’t spend too much time in the Windows Media Center Community without learning about and coming to love The Green Button. As it turns out, the community is not alone in their love for The Green Button.

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Join Me on June 25th For An Add-Ins Webinar With HP and Microsoft

On June 25th at 10am Pacific (6pm GMT) I’ll be the guest of HP and Microsoft at an online webinar all about extending the HP MediaSmart Server through community add-ins. Would love to see you there!

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Meeting the Windows Home Server Team Next Week – What’s Your Message?

So next week is the Microsoft MVP conference, and over 1700 MVPs are heading over to the Microsoft campus in Redmond to meet and hear about Microsoft’s plans for the future, as well as feedback what’s important in their respective communities. Most of the Windows Home Server MVPs will be there, and we have two [...]

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Community Ratings at We Got Served – It’s Time to Hear Your Views!

One year in to the release of Windows Home Server, and there’s now a plethora of community add-ins and software released for the platform. But which are the essentials, and which are the duffers? We’re working hard to get as many of these releases review for you so you can gauge which you should download [...]

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Another Server Upgrade for We Got Served

Things are really now starting to motor here at WGS, and with the forums opening up a few weeks ago (with now over 1000 members, and a lot more guests who haven’t registered yet) and getting on for 200,000 visits a month to the site, I’ve had to move up to the top tier shared [...]

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Download Kevin Beares’ WHS Presentation From the Vancouver Technology User Group Meeting

Last week, Microsoft’s Community Lead for Windows Home Server, Keven Beares, gave a presentation on Windows Home Server to around 300 people at the Vancouver Technology User Group’s meeting. You can download the slides from Kevin’s presentation, which include an overview of Windows Home Server as well as a look at Power Pack 1 (which [...]

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How to… Create a Static IP Address for Your Home Server

The We Got Served forums have now been open for just over a week, and I’ve been blown away by the passion and enthusiasm the WGS community has for supporting each other’s adventures with Windows Home Server. Already over 400 people have registered (with, I suspect, a lot more lurking – you know who you are!) [...]

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Add-In Update: TiVo Publisher 1.21

Rob Durfee’s released an update to his add-in, TiVo Publisher which is now at version 1.21. The update includes the following features and fixes: Firewall Port exceptions are added automatically when the add-in first starts. FLV and files with the .DIVX extension now appear in Videos. Playlists now show up in Music (they appear as folders). [...]

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Announcing the We Got Served Community Forums for Windows Home Server!

Now that we have a few more contributors in place at WGS, it’s time to announce our next exciting new feature here at We Got Served…. the WGS Forums!   I wanted to wait until we had a decent sized readership before launching forums here at WGS – there’s nothing worse than having a forum [...]

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