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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!
Continue reading...A Guide to Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 Beta - Part 3
11. June 2008
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.
Continue reading...A Guide to Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 Beta - Part 2
9. June 2008
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!
Continue reading...Running Linux Simultaneously With Windows Home Server
3. June 2008
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.
Continue reading...How-To: Install phpMyAdmin on your Windows Home Server
19. May 2008
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.
Continue reading...How to…..Install an External Hard Drive on Windows Home Server
16. May 2008
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.
Continue reading...How To: Install Forum Software phpBB 3 on Windows Home Server
8. May 2008
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!
Continue reading...How-To: Install MediaWiki on Windows Home Server
7. May 2008
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 [...]
Continue reading...How-To: Install WordPress on Windows Home Server
6. May 2008
A while back, we showed you how to Install PHP on IIS on your Windows Home Server. Thanks to feedback from the community, it has been cleaned up, cleared up, and refined - the section on how to install MySQL has been expanded to include details and brief descriptions. What we didn’t show you in [...]
Continue reading...Turn Your USB Flash Drive into a Windows Install Disk
30. April 2008
Many of us more technically-inclined poeple have probably built our own Windows Home Server systems by now or are considering it. But one of the more tricky problems with building your own Home Server is how to install it. Sure there is picking up a spare DVD drive just to install Home Server intially, but most [...]
Continue reading...- What If: There Were Two Versions of Windows Home Server?
- Hands-On: Sans Digital TR4M-B 4-Bay SATA DAS Enclosure
- Exclusive: The Next Generation HP MediaSmart Server - Codename Encore
- Windows 7 Media Center Revealed
- Windows Home Server Data Corruption Bug Fix Slated for June 2008
- How To: Play DVD’s in Windows Media Center Stored On Your Windows Home Server
- Windows XP SP3 Update Breaks Windows Home Server Remote Access?
- HP “Investigating Options” For Official MediaSmart Server Memory Upgrades
- Hands On: HP MediaSmart Connect x280n
- Hands-On: Tranquil PC SQA-5H Home Server
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- GaMeR (WGS): Some nice boxes. I like the NSD7800, plenty of sp...
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- Add-In Update: Digital ArcHound 1.3.50
- CES 2009: Check out Today’s Home Server Show
- CES 2009: TwonkyMedia™ Server Quickly Becoming the Industry Standard for Connected Home Media
- CES 2009: Linksys Media Hub and Wireless Home Audio
- CES 2009: VIA Artigo A2000 and NSD-7800 Home Servers
- CES 2009: Shuttle SH-K4500 & SH-K4800 Home Servers
- CES 2009: Acer, Shuttle and VIA to Release Windows Home Server Hardware
- Add-In: WHS Task Viewer
1. July 2008
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