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

If you've been an active part of the Windows Home Server community, I'm sure you've already heard about the upcoming Power Pack 1 Beta and are anxious to try it out! Among a list of things that have been fixed, tweaked and optimized is that nasty data corruption bug. But that isn't just it. So first, lets go over exactly what has been improved in Power Pack 1 and see why people are so eager to test it out!

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Turn Your USB Flash Drive into a Windows Install Disk

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 [...]

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Great Set of How To Guides Over at MyHomeServer.com

Eric over at myhomeserver.com has written a great suite of tutorials for extending the use of your home server, including setting up a printer to allow you to print over the internet, setting a static IP adress for your home server, and upgrading the RAM in a HP MediaSmart Server (a task I’m increasingly thinking [...]

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Windows Home Server Toolkit Webcast Available

My fellow WHS MVP Grey Lancaster pointed me to a new webcast that is now live on the Microsoft Partner website, concerning the new Windows Home Server Toolkit, which is a suite of tools allowing the user to troubleshoot problems on their home server. Join the Microsoft Home Server Team as they present and demonstrate the [...]

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Under the Hood: Windows Home Server Drive Extender

Windows Home Server Drive Extender is one of the major technical innovations in Windows Home Server. It’s the technology that pools all of your internal and external storage, removing the need to worry about the physical location of your storage. No more drive letters! Automatic folder duplication is another great feature delivered through Drive Extender. This [...]

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Windows Home Server Documentation Updated

Over at microsoft.com, the Windows Home Server team have updated the Windows Home Server Reviewer’s Guide with some very minor changes (mostly formatting) and have [Update: this has now been pulled] released two new documents - a Troubleshooting guide for installing the WHS Connector plus a Technical Brief for Windows Home Server Remote Access. The latter [...]

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Under the Hood: Windows Home Server Backup

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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