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Installation of the Vista Media Center RTM TV Pack

Engadget HD got hold of the RTM build of "Fiji" (also known as the Windows Media Center TV Pack 2008) and have a brief review. It's not something we can talk about ourselves though right now ;-)

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How To: Create a Slipstreamed, Unattended Windows Home Server Installation DVD

Delving into the We Got Served Wiki again, we find a new How To guide, written by Gamer (a stalwart of the WGS forums) providing a full walkthrough on how to create your own slipstreamed Windows Home Server installation DVD or USB drive.

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How to…..Install an External Hard Drive on Windows Home Server

Spring is here in the UK, the sun is shining and green stuff has started to sprout all over the place in a burst of new activity. Now seems the right time to spring into action myself and add some extra storage to my WHS. I have been keeping a wary eye on my server storage for some time and it’s got to the stage where I need to do something about it.

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How-To: Install WordPress on Windows Home Server

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 [...]

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Turn Your USB Flash Drive into a Windows Install Disk

Many of us more technically-inclined poeple have probably built our own Windows Home Server systems by now or are considering it.  But one of the more tricky problems with building your own Home Server is how to install it.  Sure there is picking up a spare DVD drive just to install Home Server intially, but most [...]

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How To… Install Add-Ins

So you’ve bought a Windows Home Server (WHS), now every PC on your network is backed up, you can access shared folders from any PC and stream music and video, as well as show holiday snaps on your TV. Your digital life couldn’t be looking much brighter!   But is this it? Can more be done [...]

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How To… Run a Mail Server on Windows Home Server

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 [...]

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Diskeeper 2008 for Windows Home Server Installation Instructions Improve

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 [...]

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How to… Install Sharepoint Services 3.0 on Windows Home Server

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

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