Recent Posts Tagged With 'windows home server'

• Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Now Available

  Posted on Tuesday November 24th, 2009 at 20:05 in Microsoft, update, windows 7, windows home server

  It’s been talked about for awhile but today Microsoft released Power Pack 3 for Windows Home Server. I won’t go into great detail on the process or the features since it has been covered everywhere. The big updates are with Windows 7 i...

• How-To: Install Zune Software 4.0 on Windows Home Server

  Posted on Tuesday September 22nd, 2009 at 22:30 in Software, Microsoft, zune, windows home server, zune hd

  I posted about installing iTunes 9 on your Windows Home Server a few days back. I didn’t want to leave the new Zune HD fans out of the picture so I wanted to get a link up about installing Zune Software 4.0 on your Windows Home Server. The i...

• How-To: Install iTunes 9 on Windows Home Server

  Posted on Friday September 18th, 2009 at 22:25 in apple, Microsoft, itunes, How-To, windows home server

  With the new iTunes Home Sharing it makes perfect sense to install iTunes 9 on your Windows Home Server. You can manage one copy of your tunes on the server and stream them to all the computers in your house. The problem is the install doesn’...

• HP Announces EX490 and EX495 Home Servers With Better Mac Support

  Posted on Tuesday September 15th, 2009 at 15:21 in Microsoft, hp, windows home server, ex490, ex495

  HP announced the EX490 and EX495. The best part about these two models is the really nice integration with Mac. Mac Software Updates: * Full OS Backup and Restore * Automatic media collection includes Mac iPhoto, iTunes, and iMovie libraries...

• My Movies 3.0 Launching Soon

  Posted on Friday August 28th, 2009 at 22:32 in my movies, windows media center, plug-in, windows home server

  The popular plug-in for Windows Media Center and Windows Home Server will be launching version 3.0 soon. The beta will be available on this coming Tuesday. Right now there isn’t much information about the new version. The screen shots look v...

• Video: Windows Home Server PP3 and Windows Media Center

  Posted on Sunday July 19th, 2009 at 22:23 in video, Microsoft, windows media center, windows home server, pp3

  Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 is bringing new media center features. It’s only in beta but you can sign up to test it out. Ian Dixon has a video walk through of how it works which is above. Some of the new features are below. [...]...

• HP LX195 Windows Home Server Plus 1TB Hard Drive for $375

  Posted on Monday June 22nd, 2009 at 16:59 in hardware, deal, hp, windows home server, lx195

  Newegg has the HP LX195 Windows Home Server for $375 with free 1TB hard drive. That makes it a really good price to get an entry level Windows Home Server. It is compatible with Time Machine backups for all you Mac fans out there. The deal ends o...

• Review: HP LX195 Windows Home Server

  Posted on Wednesday May 27th, 2009 at 08:41 in hardware, hp, windows home server, lx195

  Gizmodo reviewed the HP LX195 Windows Home Server. They were more positive than I would have been. It only has 1 internal hard drive of 640GB and expansion is through USB ports. At $390 the price is nice but I would spend a little more and get the...

• HP Announces 2.5 Update for EX47x Owners

  Posted on Wednesday May 6th, 2009 at 10:30 in hardware, hp, mediasmart server, windows home server, ex470, ex475

  The 2.5 update is a big update providing many new features. The one problem is it wasn’t available for the people that bought the first generation MediaSmart servers, EX47x. HP has listened to the community and decided to release the 2.5 upda...

• Windows Home Server Console on Mac

  Posted on Thursday April 30th, 2009 at 11:48 in Software, Microsoft, mac, windows home server

  I use Remote Desktop on my Mac to connect to my Windows Home Server. The directions on the Windows Home Server Team Blog take it a step farther by using Remote Desktop but only launching one app. I’m not sure why I didn’t think to even ...

• HP LX195 Windows Home Server Now On Sale

  Posted on Wednesday April 29th, 2009 at 22:19 in hardware, server, hp, windows home server, lx195

  The HP LX195 is official now. It is priced at $390 right now which I’m sure will change as more retailers start providing it. It has: * Intel Atom 1.6 GHZ Processor 230 * Powered by Microsoft Windows Home Server Software * 640GB Hard Disk D...

• Home Server Plus - Find Your Add-Ins

  Posted on Tuesday April 21st, 2009 at 22:00 in Microsoft, plug-in, windows home server, add-in

  We Got Served launched a new Windows Home Server Add-in site. WHSPlus is a site dedicated to Windows Media Center Add-ins. I usually browsed the forums at We Got Served to get add-ins so the new site will be wonderful. It’s really nice that ...

• Show Off Your MediaSmart Server

  Posted on Wednesday April 15th, 2009 at 17:29 in servers, hp, windows home server, mediasmart

  MediaSmartServer.net has a thread going on right now with lots of pictures of peoples MediaSmart Servers. There are two people with over 20TB of storage. The pictures above shows the hard disks for 28TB. He says he has 12TB more ordered. ThatR...

• Video: Install Windows Media Center add-in for Windows Home Server

  Posted on Sunday March 29th, 2009 at 22:10 in video, Microsoft, How-To, windows media center, windows home server, add-in

  The biggest part of the new PP2 update for Windows Home Server was the integration of some Windows Media Center features. It wasn’t a lot but it’s a good start. The video walks you through setting up the add-in for Windows Home Server. ...

• Windows Home Server Power Pack 2 with Media Center Integration

  Posted on Monday March 23rd, 2009 at 20:32 in Microsoft, update, windows media center, windows home server, power pack 2

  Windows Home Server Power Pack 2 is set to be released tomorrow (March 24th 2009). The biggest part of this update is some integration between Windows Home Server and Windows Media Center. Windows Media Center Connector * Computers running Win...

• Media Center Health Monitor for Windows Home Server Beta

  Posted on Wednesday March 18th, 2009 at 22:00 in Software, Microsoft, add-on, windows media center, windows home server, health monitor

  I just posted about Health Monitor for Windows Media Center. Now Ian Dixon has released Media Center Health Monitor for Windows Home Server. It’s only a beta but it looks pretty slick. All media centers report to the Windows Home Server. It...

• Mange Your Digital Media in a Mac and Windows Environment

  Posted on Tuesday February 24th, 2009 at 18:51 in Software, windows, mac, hp, windows home server, mediasmart

  Having Mac and Windows computers sharing the same network is increasing in popularity. Mostly as the Macs move in but you still have some older Windows computers laying around. Sharing and managing your data across both platforms is the ideal situa...