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Who won the Office and Sharepoint 2007 User's Guide competition and more imortantly, what music do they listen to?

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Windows Home Server Bible Now Shipping From Amazon

Windows Home Server Bible, by Greg and Jennifer Ackerman Kettell is now in stock and shipping at Amazon.  The book, published by Wiley, runs to 600 pages and covers a wide and very detailed range of Windows Home Server related topics, including installing and configuring your home server, streaming media to a variety of network devices as well as [...]

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Who Won the Windows Home Server for Dummies Competition?

Congratulations to WGS Forum member pauldarkside who won our recent Windows Home Server for Dummies competition.  We’ll have another competition soon!

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“Mommy, Why Is There A Server In The House?” Now Pre-Ordering at Amazon

When I was told by Todd Headrick from the WHS Team, that they were planning on releasing “Mommy, Why Is There A Server In The House?” on Amazon for people to buy, I have to admit, I thought he was joking - sure, releasing the rumour around the Net would be a neat extension to the [...]

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Teach Yourself Visually: Windows Home Server Now Available

Paul McFedries’ second title for Windows Home Server, “Teach Yourself Visually: Windows Home Server” has now been published and is available to order at Amazon. The book is a visual guide to using Windows Home Server, with many more screenshots and images and walkthroughs compared to other titles. Here’s what Amazon have to say: Are you [...]

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Who Won the “Mommy, Why Is There a Server In The House?” Competition?

Thanks to everyone who entered last week’s competition to win a copy of “Mommy, Why Is There a Server In The House?”. Congratulations to Brendan Grant, whose name was pulled out of the hat! Stay tuned for a new competition shortly….

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Windows Home Server: Protect and Simplify Your Digital Life Now Available

One time (or should that be “short time”) WHS MVP and now Microsoft employee Rick Hallihan’s book, “Windows Home Server: Protect and Simplify Your Digital Life“ is now shipping at Amazon. Here’s the lowdown: Windows Home Server (WHS) simplifies the process of backing up PCs, and this complete reference brings the power of WHS to everyday PCs [...]

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Competition Time: Win a Copy of “Mommy, Why Is There a Server In The House?”

As part of their “Stay at Home Server” campaign, Microsoft commissioned a children’s book called “Mommy, Why Is There a Home Server In The House”, which for some was the highlight of CES. Takes all sorts Anyway, the book is a faux parental guidance title used to explain the purpose of Windows Home Server, and is great fun. [...]

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Interesting Post

No, not a blog post, but rather the stuff that comes through your front door. My postman today brought me a hot off the press copy of Woody Leonhard’s Windows Home Server for Dummies, directly from the publishers, which will be a giveaway on the site next week. Also in the post was tucked my [...]

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New Windows Home Server Advertising Campaign Launches

The next phase in Microsoft’s communication of the home server concept kicked off yesterday with the launch of Stay at Home Servers - a website holding a faux political debate about the need for a home server. Looks like a bit of fun to try to educate the masses about the need for a home server. I [...]

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