We Got Served

Windows Home Server Sessions at 2008’s PDC

Good to see that in amongst the forthcoming hype that will be unleashed around Windows 7 at this year’s Professional Developer’s Conference in Los Angeles (Oct 27-30), there will be a couple of opportunities for developers to learn more about developing for Windows Home Server.

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Add-In: Tab Manager

Brendan Grant’s latest add-in is Tab Manager - this add-in enables you to display all of your installed add-ins within a separate window in the Windows Home Server Console.   This add-in is still in beta and Brendan’s advising that it’s not for widespread use - still, if you’re feeling brave…. More Info: Tab Manager | WGS Add-In Forum

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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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Add-In Review: Tab Scroller and Tab Reorderer

Add-Ins are a unique feature of the Windows Home Server and one that allows infinite variability to the product, making each home server unique to its user. At the last count there were more than 50 Windows Home Server add-ins available to the WHS user, with capabilities ranging from changing the picture on your WHS Remote [...]

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Change Your WHS Homepage Image With Whiist

Whiist is a Windows Home Server Add-In by Andrew Grant that allows you to create and manage web content on your Windows Home Server - it won this year’s Code2Fame Add-In competition, and Andrew is continually updating the add-in to bring new features to the WHS Community. Version 0.8 was released yesterday, and comes with a [...]

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Add-In: Tab Scroller

Brendan Grant’s keeping busy (and me busy!) with another WHS add-in release today. Tab Scroller allows you to scroll through your WHS Console Tab List with your mouse wheel, which makes life a lot more convenient for those users with many add-ins installed on their home server. It’s best used if you have 7 or more Windows [...]

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Add-in: Web Folders 4 WHS

Brendan Grant this week released his second Windows Home Server Add-in - Web Folders 4 WHS. The add-in allows full browser-based  drag and drop functionality for files and folders when uploading and downloading files remotely. The add-in also allows you to access your files through the Windows Explorer shell and any other WebDav client that supports HTTPS.    More Info [...]

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Whiist Wins the Windows Home Server Code2Fame Challenge!

  Big congratulations to Andrew Grant, who today is announced as the winner of the Code2Fame challenge, for his Windows Home Server add-in, Whiist. Yesterday, as we reported, a group of judges from the WHS team and seasoned pundits (Ed Bott from ZDNet’s Microsoft Report, Paul Thurrott from Supersite for Windows, and Rob Enderle from the Enderle [...]

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