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 [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 4, 2008
On the 7th February 2007, We Got Served was born - since then, we’ve worked hard to bring you your daily dose of Windows Home Server news and reviews. Here are a few stats about our first year at WGS: We’ve written over 500 posts We’ve had 449,335 visits from 204,122 people We’ve served up 1,517,222 pages of [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 1, 2008
In my digital world Windows Home Server (WHS) was always going to be a logical partner for use with XP Media Center (MCE) and a media extender. At the moment WHS does not quite manage to integrate itself seamlessly between recording TV on an MCE and watching it using a media extender, this is in [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 31, 2008
Rick Drasch has released the final version of his Recorded TV Manager add-in to the web. The add-in, previously in beta, is designed to help you manage your recorded TV programs and series between your Media Center PCs and Windows Home Server. Features include: Collections - Collect series episodes automatically to the Home Server (or other location) [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 31, 2008
I was glad to see this add-in when I started working with Windows Home Server (WHS) because I have a TiVo Series 2 DVR on my home network and since I got it three years ago it has changed how we watch TV around our house. With the development of WHS and its ability to consolidate [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 30, 2008
This security bulletin has been covered extensively around the net, but if you have Automatic Updates switched on on your home server, then the necessary patch should have already been downloaded and installed to your system in the last two weeks. Automatic Updates is there for your protection - use it. Update: The WHS Product team confirmed to [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Over at the Microsoft Technet website, Bob Muglia (Senior Vice President of the Windows Server and Tools Division) talks about his career and the development of Windows Home Server. Thanks to Lukasz Foks for the tip. More Info: Microsoft Technet (Video)
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Next up in the series of FAQs from the We Got Served forums is a common issue with router configuration. Windows Home Server has the ability to automatically configure many routers to permit access to your home server when away from home, using a technology called uPnP. Unfortunately, not all routers are compatible with uPnP and [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Raxco will today release an update to their PerfectDisk range of disk defragmentation software, including a new version of PerfectDisk for Windows Home Server. PerfectDisk8 for Windows Home Server brings the full functionality of Raxco’s server-grade defragmentation products to Windows Home Server, although they are yet to integrate the software into the Windows Home Server Console, [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, January 27, 2008
As the number of Add-ins for Windows Home Server increases and the Add-In developer community grows in size and expertise we are seeing a shift from single purpose add-ins to add-in suites containing a whole range of different tools accessed from console. We’ve already seen this demonstrated with add-ins like Whiist. Certainly Jay Hinrich’s WHS Customizer [...]
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Tuesday, February 5, 2008
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