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If your interested in playing with Windows Home Server without committing to buying a copy you can download the DVD from Microsoft from the Microsoft Download Center . This is a great way of testing Windows Home Server Overview You are downloading the Windows Home Server 120-Day Evaluation Edition DVD...
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The news continues to come out from CES and on The Home Server Blog there are details of some of the new Windows Home Server OEMS and existing OEMS that are updating there ranges. It’s great to see new manufactures like Acer and Shuttle joining the Home Server party. More info will be available tomorrow...
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Congratulations to Paul Ferguson the winner of the first My Movies competition and now here is another chance to win. Tomorrow I am going to CES in Las Vegas where I will be interviewing people from various teams at Microsoft, so to win today send me an email ian [at] thedigitallifestyle.com, put My...
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The Home Server Show 28 - Listener Feedback on the HP EX485 and EX487 Links and News Items mentioned on the show. Seagate 7200.11 Hard Drive Issues? Check these forums. And here at Tom's Hardware. Automating the PP1 Windows Home Server Shared Folder Backup Add-In: WHS Task Viewer Add-In: Grid Junction...
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How would you like to win a full licence of My Movies for Windows Home Server? My Movies for Windows Home Server is a single add-on program for Windows Home Server, providing a set of features around movies and music, making it the perfect solution for adding, identifying and maintaining movie and music...
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HP are launching two new Windows Home Servers, the EX485 (750GB) and the EX487 (1.5TB). These are nice incremental updates to their MediaSmart range, as well as having hardware refresh HP have also updated the software adding a lot of additional features. When you first see the box it looks very much...
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HP are launching two new Windows Home Servers, the EX485 (750GB) and the EX487 (1.5TB). These are nice incremental updates to their MediaSmart range, as well as having hardware refresh HP have also updated the software adding a lot of additional features. When you first see the box it looks very much...
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Here are some news items worth mentioning yet I forgot to talk about them on the show! Windows Live Group for Windows Home Server - Donovan West over at HSH.com has created a Live Group for all WHS enthusiasts. Check it out. The Digital Lifestyle.com is having its annual awards show. Please take the...
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I have seen a few people try running Windows Home Server as a virtual machine on Windows Vista as a way of combining WHS and Media Center together (with limited success) but I haven’t seen it done ther other way round. Andrew Grant posted about running Vista Media Center on Windows Home Server...
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Today's show looks at BitDefender 2009 Total Security for your PC and your Windows Home Server. Listen to the whole show because BitDefender has a little present for you. Details are on the podcast! Here is an awesome review of the product if you want a real in-depth look at it. I give you highlights...
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David’s got a great edition of the Home Server show this week. I joined Terry Walsh, Andrew Carr, Philip Churchill with David for a Windows Home Server roundtable discussing gift ideas for Home Server and Media Center users. It was good fun and David does will to deal with the Skype issues! David also...
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Today's show is a round-table discussion with Terry Walsh, Andrew Carr, Philip Churchill, and Ian Dixon. We will be discussing gift ideas for Home Server and Media Center users. We have a lot of fun and hopefully you will enjoy this round-table format. Links and News Items mentioned on the show Add...
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Tranquil PC make some excellent Windows Home Servers like the T7-HSA I reviewed in November last year . In October Tranquil launched the SQA-5H (also know as Squash) and last week I nipped down to Tranquil’s office in Manchester and pickup one of the new home servers for a review. This is my unboxing...
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Tranquil PC make some excellent Windows Home Servers like the T7-HSA I reviewed in November last year . In October Tranquil launched the SQA-5H (also know as Squash) and last week I nipped down to Tranquil’s office in Manchester and pickup one of the new home servers for a review. This is my unboxing...
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Windows Home Server users all love their Home Server but there are some people that don’t want a server in the home. According to a slide on ChannelWeb’s “10 Microsoft Predictions for 2009” Microsoft could be looking at a cloud based Home Server solution. The details are pretty vague but it could make...
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I somehow don’t think this is how Microsoft planned to announce Power Pack 2 is coming, it looks like a bit of a slip up to me but the cat is out of the bag now: Australian magazine APC recently interviewed Stephen Leonard, Senior Product Manager for Windows Home Server regarding plans to release “basic...
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Yesterday there was an update out for Windows Home Server and I am seeing reports of people having problems installing the update. In the comments for the update blog post Kevin said he had a problem with Windows Home Server console icon going to red after installing KB957825 and WHS says that the console...
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Microsoft have a couple of patches out that could effect Media Center and Home Server users. The first is an update for XP Media Center, Chris Lanier has details of a fix (KB956148) that resolves “an issue in which a Windows Media Center configuration that uses an analog TV broadcast without a set-top...
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Listen Here (mp3) This week I am talking to the Home Server Show’s David McCabe about his top Windows Home Server addins including addins for enabling Windows Media Center integration. I have email on HD Home Run, Extender DVD playback and Sideshow gadgets, plus a roundup of the Media Center news...
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Listen Here (mp3) This week I am talking to the Home Server Show’s David McCabe about his top Windows Home Server addins including addins for enabling Windows Media Center integration. I have email on HD Home Run, Extender DVD playback and Sideshow gadgets, plus a roundup of the Media Center news...
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Brian Binnerup has added a great new feature to My Movies for Windows Home Server: Extender compatible DVD ripping. This is the ability to rip DVDs into MPEG2 format that a Media Center extender can play. You can configure it to copy to either create VIDEO_TS, MPEG2 or VIDEO_TS and MPEG2. For the MPEG2...
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The Home Server Show 23 - News and PDC2008 Wrapup Links and News Items mentioned on the show I will be giving away a 1 year subscription to KeepVault for WHS. To get in the drawing send me and e-mail, use the contact button on this blog, or leave a comment on this posting. Check out the KeepVault review...
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Vidabox has introduced a new server called RackServer a 4U tall Windows Home Server based server. It starts with 2TB of storage and can be upgraded to 7.0TB, it also has has 1 step archiving of unencrypted CD, DVD or Blu-ray disc. Starts with 2.0TB, Expandable to 7.0TB onboard Add RackServer+Plus for...
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I noticed in a PDC session Doug Berrett had a Webguide icon amongst his Live Mesh shortcuts and as we have heard nothing about the future of Webguide I was very pleased to see this on10 video showing a demo of Webguide running as a Sliverlight app on Live Mesh. The Webguide part of the video is about...
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Really quick post as I wanted to get this information out there. If when you try to set up a home pc to backup to your Windows Home Server you get a message about your Home PC is Unresponsive this can be fixed in most cases by running a disk check on your drives. (Technically Chkdsk/f is best)
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Brian Binnerup has updated My Movies to 2.48 and released the 1.0 version of My Movies for Windows Home Server , you can listen to Brian talking about his new application on The Media Center Show #176 . For installation and configuration instructions head to the My Movies Wiki which details the installation...
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Matt Pietrek has an interesting tip on his MSDN blog about getting ripped DVDs to stream from Windows Home Server to Media Center Extenders (in his case an Xbox 360), Matt kept getting "video decoder error". Where a lot of us would get frustrated with the error and start looking for a window...
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Microsoft have put another PDC session online featuring Windows Home Server, this session looks at how you can connect Windows Home Server to devices over in the home and over the internet. I was very impressed by the a “science project” called called Florence, this is an application that may look familiar...
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The Home Server Show 22 - Windows Home Server Team Interview CJ Saretto, Mark Pendergrast, Brendan Grant, and Jonas Svensson of the Windows Home Server team took time out of their schedule right before PDC2008 to talk to us. YouTube Comments - View the comments here. Wish List Addition - My PS3 and PVConnect...
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Channel 9 have a great video from PDC 2008 showing how to develop Connected Home Application with Windows Home Server. The video actualy show some interesting Media Center integration and home automation. As well as a video of the session you can download the Powerpoint Deck Learn how to build applications...
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I ran across an article in Electronic House that that asks its readers, "Is your media safe?" It's a nice read about the HP Media Smart Server. October 21, 2008 | by Rebecca Day You hit the alarm on your car when you get home from work. You lock all the doors before going to bed. Automatic...
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Show 21 has tons of news, a security update, and a sneak peek of a 3 part post that is upcoming. Links and News Items mentioned on the show Microsoft has released security bulletin MS08-067, Vulnerability in Server Service Could Allow Remote Code Execution (958644) A new user's guide to Windows Home...
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Listen Here (mp3) This week I am talking to David Thompson of Manchester based Tranquil PC about their new Windows Home Server the SQA-5H , its is a Intel Atom powered cube based server with space for 5 drives and plenty of innovations including a one touch backup button that backs up the shares to an...
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Listen Here (mp3) This week I am talking to David Thompson of Manchester based Tranquil PC about their new Windows Home Server the SQA-5H , its is a Intel Atom powered cube based server with space for 5 drives and plenty of innovations including a one touch backup button that backs up the shares to an...
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I last looked at Tranquil’s Windows Home Server last year and was very impressed with the quality of their device and today Tranquil have announced the SQA-5H , their 2nd generation Windows Home Server. A couple of weeks ago I visited Tranquil to chat about their new product and some of the other products...
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KeepVault has even more news today. They have announced a new pricing structure as well as discounts for existing subscribers. Existing subscribers will be able to get the 100GB plan for $79 while new subs will be able to sign up for $99. Existing subscribers hang on, there is more. Straight from KeepVault...
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Dell Small Business has a basic PowerEdge SC440 server for $200 + $20 S/H = $220 . Specifications after the click. Here are the specs: Dual Core Intel Pentium E2180, 2.0GHz, 1MB Cache, 800MHz FSB No Operating System 512MB DDR2-667MHz, 1X512MB Single Ranked DIMMs Primary Hard Drive 80GB 7.2K RPM Serial...
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Listen Here (mp3) This week I am talking to Brian Binnerup developer My Movies of one of the most popular application for Window Media Center. This week Brian released details of the new Windows Home Server version of the My Movies which includes features like automated disk copying. It also works as...
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Over the weekend I mentioned about My Movies for Windows Home Server and today Brian Binnerup has officially released the Windows Home Server addin , this is a server version of My Movies designed for Windows Home Server. It has features like folder monitoring and disk copying plus it works with other...
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Listen Here (mp3) This week I am talking to Brian Binnerup developer My Movies of one of the most popular application for Window Media Center. This week Brian released details of the new Windows Home Server version of the My Movies which includes features like automated disk copying. It also works as...