Category: Tutorial

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Setting up Remote Access

The How-To Geek have a "Setup Remote Access in Windows Home Server" tutorial. The tutorial takes you through setting up remote access (duh!) and how to access your Home Server remotely by using your web browser. [tweetmeme only_single=”false”]

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A Windows 7 Media Center Install Guide

Windows Media Center MVP Pete Stagman has a great post on how he installed and configures his Windows 7 Media Center from start to finish. Pete had to do a fresh install and decided to document the process, which includes a Raid 0 array, which is recommended when either recording 2 or more HD streams […]

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EX47x Memory Upgrade Video Tutorial

With the latest 3.0 software being available from HP for the previous generation EX47x/EX48x Home Servers, it is a good idea to upgrade the memory on these machines to 2GB. To help you through this process there are many tutorials available, but Timothy Daleo has gone one better and has posted a video guide on […]

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Remove a Computer from WHS

If you no longer need a PC to be monitored by Windows Home Server, then the How-To Geek has a post on how to remove it. It’s very simple to do and is an ideal post for the newbie’s (which we all were once!). You can find it here.

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Rip DVDs to Play on Any Device

The dudes at Tested.com have a really good guide on how to rid your DVDs to play on any device. Ripping your DVD collection to a compressed, more compatible format will enable you to store more DVDs on Windows Home Server and allow you to stream them to your Windows Mobile, Zune, iPod/iPhone etc. Its […]

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Setting up iTunes Server and HP Media Collector

Timothy Daleo has a great video on how to setup the iTunes Server for those of you using the 3.0 software on a HP MediaSmart. The video shows how to configure the server for iTunes and setup the associated HP Media Collector. You can find the video here.

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Enable Media Streaming in WHS to Windows Media Player

The How-To Geek looks at how to enable media streaming in Windows Home Server to Windows Media Player in both Vista and Windows 7. The tutorial takes you through the process of getting it setup and configured which you can find here.

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Virtualizing Home Server On Hyper-V

Thanks to reader Dale Branson who directed us to a post on Virtualizing Windows Home Server On Hyper-V. The post explains how to install and configure Microsoft’s free Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 software and run Windows Home Server on it as a virtual machine. Its a very detailed post which you can read here.

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What Backup Policy Do You Follow?

Tranquil PC are asking the question "What data protection policy should you follow?" Which is a question I am sure you have asked yourself before.  Do you either ‘move’ your data files to the duplicated folders on the Windows Home Server, where your data is safe, or do you keep the data files on your […]

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Upgrading An Old HP MediaSmart to the 3.0 Software

If you would like a helping hand in upgrading your EX47x or EX48x to the latest 3.0 software (which you can have delivered on CD/DVD), then website “Using Windows Home Server” has video tutorials for you. As an example the 3 part video takes you through upgrading the EX485 on a Friday night to the […]