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 [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, November 18, 2007
Just in time for the holidays, Woody Leonhard’s Windows Home Server for Dummies is now available and shipping from Amazon. The book provides a guide to using Windows Home Server, sharing and storing files will hints and tips to help you get the most out of your home server. Here’s the blurb: If you work in [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 1, 2007
Whilst you’re waiting to hear news about the release date and other news on the HP Mediasmart Server, HP sent through a Reviewer’s Guide for the system, which is being sent out to the press right now, and they’ve kindly given permission for me to post it up on the blog for you to download. So now you [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, October 21, 2007
Over the summer, I was lucky enough to be invited by Apress to be the Technical Reviewer on Andrew Edney’s Windows Home Server User’s Guide. The job entailed ensuring Andrew’s text was technically correct, all walkthroughs, hints and tips did what they were meant to, and generally give a steer on ensuring that the technical [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, September 26, 2007
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 [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, September 16, 2007
If you’ve been reading the blog for a while, you’ll have read about Andrew Edney’s new book, Windows Home Server User’s Guide, which is released in October via Apress. Now that the book is complete, Andrew’s opened up a blog to support the book, which you can check out at http://usingwindowshomeserver.com Disclosure: At this point, I should [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 27, 2007
As we progress towards the general availability of Windows Home Server systems and software, a plethora of authors are hard at work putting the finishing touches to books covering the new operating system. One of the first to be released will be Paul McFedries’ Microsoft Windows Home Server Unleashed, from Sam’s Publishing, which is published late [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 18, 2007
For those of you looking for an in-depth looking into installing, configuring and running Windows Home Server day to day, two books have been announced which may just help. Windows Home Server For Dummies (US Link) is currently slated for the end of December, and promises 384 pages of Home Server tips and tricks. Here’s what Amazon [...]
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