Paul Roberts had some problems restoring a Sony Vaio F Series laptop with version 1 of Windows Home Server. Although the restore process did install the proper drivers for the 64bit Realtek PCIe GBE controller and the hard drive it could not find his WHS via the network and even opening up the Console and [...]
Rik Hepworth reminded me that if you want to use your Xbox 360 to watch video streamed from your Windows Home Server make sure that the Guest account is enabled on the server. Although streaming is turned on by default enabling the guest account and disallowing it’s access to everything except the folders you want [...]
Blog groovyPost takes us back to basics and explains how to add a Windows 7 client PC to version 1 of Windows Home Server. From where to download the connector software from to the completed installation this guide takes us through the entire setup process for connecting a Windows 7 PC to WHS (v1). You [...]
PC Doc on his blog "The Doc’s World" has an article on using Air Video to stream content from your Home server. In his article the PC Doc explains how to setup the application on a iPhone, iPad or iTouch and explains how to install and setup the software on Windows Home Server too. Air [...]
Sean Daniel is looking at more ways to take advantage of his low-powered Home Server to do more for him as an *always* on device. And over the holiday period had to print boarding passes prior to leaving for the airport: It was frustrating to have to take out the laptop when the iPad is [...]
Windows Home Server MVP Nigel Wilks explains to us the Microsoft Web Platform Installer for WHS 2011 users. This installer will enable you to easily install a whole suite of applications from Sql through to WordPress, even Forum software such as PhpBB onto Windows Home Server 2011. In the post Nigel explains how to get [...]
Gunnar Peipman’s has a post on how to get Windows Home Server to work with the Microsoft subdomain (http://something.homeserver.com) if it is not connected directly to a router that has access to web. In his post he explains how to set up the router and subdomain: “It was not hard to get Windows Home Server [...]
Small Business Server enthusiast Robert Pearman has posted his experiences with the Office 365 Integration Module for SBS 2011 Essentials. Robert’s post is broken down into the following 11 sections: Installation & Sign Up Password Policy Dashboard Integration Add Domain Wizard & Domain Verification Managing User Accounts & Password Sync Remote Web Access Integration Log [...]
If you don’t wish to purchase software that enables you to host your iTunes application as a service on your Windows Home Server then why not manually get it setup for free. G. Wade takes us through the steps to get iTunes setup on your WHS machine in 8 easy steps which you can follow [...]
MissingRemote have a article on migrating away from Windows Home Server Drive Extender which explains how to migrate your data out of the drive pool from version 1 of WHS to Windows Home Server 2011. The explained process will also work if you intend to move to any alternative "drive pool" solution, such as FlexRAID, [...]
