Category: Tutorial

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Access Media Remotely with HPs EX48x

Another great article for owners of HPs EX485/487 is on accessing your media remotely. The five page tutorial takes you through the various steps for enabling remote access, including adding users, configuring your router and how to setup the dynamic domain name service. This is all concluded with troubleshooting procedures in case you may need […]

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HP Upline Online Backup Within WHS

The Home Server Show website has a great post on how to run HP Upline from inside the Windows Home Server console. HP Upline allows unlimited secure online backup. It’s not designed to run in Windows Home Server, but following this tutorial will allow you to do so. You can read it here.

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Upload Pics to Flickr Using the HP EX48x

MediaSmarthome.com has a tutorial on how to upload your pics to Flickr using the HP Photo Publisher on the EX48x range of MediaSmart Server’s. The guide only takes 5 – 10 minutes to complete and for those with an existing  EX47x model the article recommends using the PhotoSync Beta2 for Windows Home Server add-in as […]

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Mac Backup with a EX48x MediaSmart Server

If you would you like to know how to back up an Apple Mac with the new range of HP MediaSmart Server’s, then the Using Windows Home Server site has the details. Author Andrew Edney takes us through the steps necessary to get your Mac backups working with the EX485 or EX487 from HP. You […]

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SharePoint on Windows Home Server Update

Tom Ziegmann has updated his guide and scripts for installing SharePoint on Windows Home Server. The document is now at revision 2.02 and the scripts at 1.1 and include the following changes: Scripts have been updated to correct a typo in the filename location of the Search Database and Log files Guide has been linked […]

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iTunes Library Sharing on the HP MediaSmart Server

MediaSmarthome.com has a 3 page tutorial on sharing your iTunes library with your HP MediaSmart Server to a Mac and a PC. The guide takes you through setting up the iTunes music server on the MediaSmart Server and how to get your music onto it either by drag and drop or by using the new […]

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Store Windows Live Writer on WHS

If you are a blogger and use Windows Live Writer (WLW) for your postings then Home Server Hacks has a link to a post by Scott Lovegrove on how to get your WLW drafts and published posts stored onto your Windows Home Server. Now this is great when you are away from home and remember […]

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Write an Add-In for Windows Home Server

How would you like to write an add-in for Windows Home Server? A common answer from a Windows Home Server enthusiast might be: “I would love to, but I have never programmed anything in my life and don’t know anything about code either”. Well, that needn’t be a problem. By following the resources below, you […]

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How to Write an Add-In

Developer Sam Wood has just finished a 5 part tutorial series for novice developers (just like me), on how to develop an add-in for Windows Home Server using freely available tools. So enough excuses, if there is an add-in which you would like to see developed, then perhaps – maybe; you’ll be the one to […]

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How to Run Vista Media Center on Windows Home Server

With a lot of people wanting Windows Home Server and Windows Media Center in the one box, developer Andrew Grant has written a guide on how to run WMC as a service on your Home Server box using a Virtual Machine package with the output being through one or more extenders. The guide can be […]