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Hello from the UK!

Hi All. My name is James Quintin and I'll be bringing you all the UK centric news/reviews/tips & tricks for Media Center. Feel free to drop me a line if you have any questions/advice/tips!

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How To: Create a Slipstreamed, Unattended Windows Home Server Installation DVD

Delving into the We Got Served Wiki again, we find a new How To guide, written by Gamer (a stalwart of the WGS forums) providing a full walkthrough on how to create your own slipstreamed Windows Home Server installation DVD or USB drive.

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How to: Rebuild and Expand Windows Home Server Storage

If you want to know how to rebuild and expand Windows Home Server's storage, Graham Jones from VANTUG has written this step by step guide to show you how!

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A Guide to Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 Beta - Part 3

By now, you probably have Power Pack 1 Beta installed. I know I do. But what exactly are you supposed to do with it? What does the team want from you? Well, as ever they want your input. But first, we are going to go over how to gather that feedback and properly submit it to the Microsoft Connect site.

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A Guide to Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 Beta - Part 2

We are going to go over some of the options of how to test PP1 and how to backup your data Remember, you are supposed to break it, so bad things don't happen when it is released!

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Running Linux Simultaneously With Windows Home Server

The Windows Home Server community continue to push the boundaries of what can be done on WHS environments. One of community, Pedro Innecco has recently published an article on his blog about running Linux on a Windows Home Server simultaneously. Find out how to do it yourself.

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How-To: Install phpMyAdmin on your Windows Home Server

So far, we've shown you how to install php on your webserver, and how to install a number of great software packages for your website. But what we haven't done yet is show you how to easily manage your databases for your websites. Managing your database includes creating new databases, tables, entries. Or even deleting or editing them. phpMyAdmin gives a much nicer and easier to used interface for interacting with MySQL than a command line.

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How to…..Install an External Hard Drive on Windows Home Server

Spring is here in the UK, the sun is shining and green stuff has started to sprout all over the place in a burst of new activity. Now seems the right time to spring into action myself and add some extra storage to my WHS. I have been keeping a wary eye on my server storage for some time and it’s got to the stage where I need to do something about it.

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How To: Install Forum Software phpBB 3 on Windows Home Server

This week, we have shown you how to install your own blog on Windows Home Server, powered by Wordpress, as well as your own wiki, both of which you can do once you have installed PHP for IIS. Now we are going to to show you how to install your very own personal forum, so you can go and create your own Windows Home Server community that kicks We Got Served's ass!

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How-To: Install MediaWiki on Windows Home Server

A while ago, we showed you how to install PHP on your Home Server, and recently we showed you how to install WordPress on your server.  Now, we are going show you how to install MediaWiki onto your server for you very own Wiki pages.  MediaWiki is the software that powers sites like Wikipedia and [...]

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