This is an overview of how to setup DVBLink on Windows Home Server allowing one to serve live TV to other devices on your network including UPNP Players, Windows Media Centre and Windows Media Player. Setting up your hardware Open device manager and see if your hardware has been detected. In most cases you should […]
Microsoft have an online article on how to "Back up recorded TV shows using Windows Home Server", The article explains in easy steps how to back up the TV shows to your home server and also how to create a smaller, compressed version of a TV show file. You can read it here.
MediasmartServer.net has details of a process documented by technical contributor "ymboc" on how to successfully clone and upgrade the Windows Home Server system drive. This is handy for if you want to upgrade your smaller stock system drive to a larger one or for when you need to replace a failing system drive which is […]
I’m sure we all know by now that Power Pack 3 introduced the Media Center Connector, but do you know your way through the varies features and menus which are available? If not (or even if you do) Pete Stagman has detailed the installation process and takes us through the features menu by menu, which […]
How would you set up your Windows Home Server for a VPN connection. But why would you do this? This is handy if you are travelling and need to access your network directly rather than via the web server. All you need to do is setup a VPN network connection on your WHS and another […]
Media Center MVP Pete Stagman details his process of how he rips, stores and plays his Blu-Rays using a handful of software and My Movies for both Windows Home Server and Media Center. You can read Pete’s guide here.
If you have one of the new EX490/495 MediaSmart Servers and have tried to do a system restore with it, you would have found out how difficult this can be. The new MediaSmarts (including the DataVault X510) use a TFTP server to accomplish this task which has made the process more difficult compared to when […]
Back in November of last year (2009) we posted a link to a tutorial on setting up magicJack, a USB device for free US and Canadian calls. And now lazy man Gar (his words not mine) has published his experiences of installing it onto his Home Server, including how he gets an attachment in his […]
If you would like to know how to install PowerShell onto Windows Home Server then Maximo Trinidad has the details. Maximo takes you step by step through the process to get PowerShell setup and configured on our Home Server’s, which you can read here.
Jeremy Jones has updated his post on how to backup your Mac using Time Machine to a Windows Home Server Jeremy states that there has been many updates to Windows Home Server and Mac OS X that has complicated the process and therefore previous methods will probably not work. The good news is that he […]
