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How-To: Install WordPress on Windows Home Server

Tuesday, May 6, 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 [...]

New Faces at We Got Served

Monday, April 21, 2008

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I’d like to introduce a couple of people whose names may be familiar to those who frequent the forums - both will be posting here on the WGS blog regularly, helping us ensure we grow our community through providing the latest news, tips and tricks for your home server. Firstly, Bodog will be very familiar to forum [...]

Data Corruption Bug - Microsoft Will Communicate On Monday

Saturday, March 8, 2008

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Seems like we’ll all get an update at some point on Monday from Microsoft regarding the status of the data corruption bug. Stay tuned to WGS, the Windows Home Server Team Blog and Microsoft Knowledge Base.

Review: Diskeeper 2008 HomeServer

Thursday, February 7, 2008

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What is disk fragmentation and why does it happen? As files are stored, moved, deleted, updated and so on, over time they can be potentially stored on different areas of the disk rather than in a single block. This is called disk fragmentation. There could be thousands of parts of files scattered all over the disks [...]

Why Windows Home Server Job Adverts Are Great News For Customers as Well As Developers

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

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So, you may have seen that the Windows Home Server team are recruiting a bunch of new people for the team. If you’re a non-developer like me, you may not have given the post a second thought. But wait just a minute there. There’s great news in that blog post for WHS users like us. Why? Well, [...]

Diskeeper 2008 for Windows Home Server Installation Instructions Improve

Sunday, January 20, 2008

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The folks over at Diskeeper Corporation have posted instructions on their company blog that gives in depth guidance on how to accomplish an installation of Diskeeper 2008 for Windows Home Server. They readily admit, as pointed out by several of their customers, that there is very little in the documentation that accompanies the downloaded files of [...]

Interview with Fujitsu-Siemens Scaleo Home Server Product Manager

Thursday, January 17, 2008

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Our good friends over at Home Server Blog recently interviewed Detlef Beister, who is the Product Manager for Fujitsu-Siemens’ Desktop business. I asked Christoph whether he’d translate it for WGS readers, and fortunately for us, he agreed! Head over to the blog to check it out… More Info: Home Server Blog

Todd Headrick Talks Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 on The Media Center Show

Thursday, January 17, 2008

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Ian Dixon has been doing a valliant job of editing and sharing a huge variety of interviews he conducted at CES last week. Even though 140,000 people attend CES, it’s funny how you bump into the same people regularly, and every time I saw Ian, he had his tablet PC and microphone at the ready. Great [...]

Help! I Have a Problem With My New Home Server…

Sunday, December 23, 2007

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If, in the next few days, you open up a big present and inside you discover a Windows Home Server, then you’re pretty much guaranteed a fun (and busy) holiday period setting up your new home server and learning about what it can do. Sometimes, with any computer, you can hit a problem, or need to ask [...]

Check Out Home Server Hacks

Friday, December 14, 2007

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Donavon West has set up a new blog called Home Server Hacks, which has kicked off with a series of walkthroughs to help you get the most out of your home server by digging down under the hood. Subjects covered so far include configuring your Apple router to work with WHS, upgrading the memory on [...]