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How-To: Install MediaWiki on Windows Home Server

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

A while ago, we showed you how to install PHP on your Home Server, and recently we showed you how to install WordPress on your server. Now, we are going show you how to install MediaWiki onto your server for you very own Wiki pages. MediaWiki is the software that powers sites like Wikipedia and [...]

How-To: Install WordPress on Windows Home Server

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

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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 [...]

How-To: Listen to Internet Radio with Windows Home Server and SHOUTcast

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

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SHOUTcast is a free application which anbles you to access thousands of internet radion stations from all over the world. Did you know you can set up Windows Home Server to be your own, personal SHOUTcast server, so you can listen to internet radio anywhere in your home? We’ll show you how, thanks to Drashna’s [...]

How To: Improve Wireless Security With Windows Home Server

Friday, March 21, 2008

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A big thanks to WGS Reader, Roelf Zomerman, from the Netherlands who has pulled together the following guide to improving wireless security with Windows Home Server. Wireless networks are always less protected than wired LANs since they do not require physical access to a cable inside the building. Enterprises use 802.1x security to strengthen the security of the [...]

Installing PHP for IIS on Windows Home Server

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

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If you’re interested in running a website from your home server, you may have considered various options, including running PHP. But running PHP with IIS can be fraught with problems - or at least was, until WGS reader, Christopher Courtney, wrote the following guide to installing PHP for IIS on Windows Home Server. Over to [...]

Don’t All Shoot At Once :)

Sunday, February 24, 2008

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So first of all hello everyone! As Terry mentioned I work for Microsoft and I’m pretty active in the Media Center / WHS circles both internally and externally. I also take part in the Microsoft Champion program which I’ll speak a bit more about in a minute. I do want get the quick disclaimer out first. [...]

How To… Run a Mail Server on Windows Home Server

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

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Whilst users have been excited about the backup and remote access capabilities Windows Home Server brings to the home, many have cited the lack of a mail server as a major weakness of the product. Clearly, the WHS team are aware of the community’s desire for a mail server within Windows Home Server, but this [...]

How to… Install Sharepoint Services 3.0 on Windows Home Server

Saturday, November 3, 2007

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Tom Z has published a detailed, step by step guide to installing Sharepoint Services 3.0 on Windows Home Server. If you’re a big Sharepoint fan, and have been wondering how to get it to run on WHS, check it out. Download: Tom’s Blog

How to… Upgrade Windows Home Server RC to Windows Home Server RTM

Thursday, September 13, 2007

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If you’ve been running the Windows Home Server beta releases, you’ll be eagerly awaiting your copy of the Windows Home Server RTM final release to drop through your letter box. Whilst the upgrade from the Release Candidate to the final release is pretty straightforward, there are a couple of watch-outs to pay attention to, which [...]